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Published by Editore: John Murray / Andre Deutsch,, London, 1958
Seller: leonardo giulioni, ROMA, RM, Italy
Book
Rilegato. Condition: buono. Dust Jacket Condition: discreto. DD38 legatura in tela con titoli al dorso , lieve usura della copertina per aloni e brunitura del dorso, sovraccoperta illustrata con diversi problemi per tagli agli angoli con arricciature, tagli al piatto posteriore con piega, bordo superiore sgualcito, sguardie decorate, pp. 139 con alcune illustrazioni in b/n, sporadiche fioriture al testo, tagli bruniti con presenza di fioriture e tracce di polvere,lingua inglese.
Published by John Murray and Andre Deutsch. Reprint, London, 1958
Seller: Badger Books, Woollahra, NSW, Australia
Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. A volcano erupts on an imaginary Caribbean island, the author's only novel; dedicated to Diana Cooper. Extremities darkened. Good in dustwrapper chipped and frayed at edges. book.
Published by John Murray / Andre Deutsch, London, 1977
ISBN 10: 0719504287ISBN 13: 9780719504280
Seller: The Print Room, Lilley nr Luton, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket and illustrations by Robin Ironside (illustrator). 1st Edition. First published in 1953, this is a fourth impression of 1977. Some very slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, price clipped, no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 139pp. On an Aegean island one summer, an English traveller meets an enigmatic elderly Frenchwoman. He is captivated by a painting she owns of a busy Caribbean port overlooked by a volcano and in time she shares the story of her youth there in the early twentieth century. Set in the tropical luxury of the island of Saint Jacques, hers is a tale of romantic intrigue and decadence amongst the descendents of slaves and a fading French aristocracy. But on the night of the annual Mardi Gras ball, catastrophe overwhelms the island and the world she knew came to an abrupt and haunting end. 'The Violins of Saint Jacques' captures the unforeseen drama of forces beyond human control. Upon first publication the book was immediately hailed as a rare and exotic sweep of colour across the drab monochrome of the post war years, and it has lost nothing of its original flavour. Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011), was widely regarded as 'Britain's greatest living travel writer' during his lifetime, A BBC journalist once described him as 'a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene.' During the war, working for SOE, he achieved lasting fame for his kidnapping, with Stanley Moss, of Nazi General Heinrich Kreipe on Crete.
Published by London: John Murray and Andre Deutsch, 1977, 1977
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
[Modern fiction] FOURTH IMPRESSION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.139;[1]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, endpapers illustrated with maps, pictorial dust-wrapper price clipped. Inscription of owner's name to front flypaper. Spotting to textblock top edge, slight wear to spine edges, minor wear to dust-wrapper. A clean copy. Near fine. Fermor's only novel. Opera adaptation by Malcolm Williamson. Fermor was prominent in the Cretan resistance in the Second World War.
Published by John Murray/André Deutsch, London., 1958
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
Third printing (the first printing was issued by Murray with Derek Verschoyle). Octavo. 139 pages. Decorations by Robin Ironside. Map on front endpapers.Signed by the author on the title-page. In 1966 an operatic version of the book with music by Malcolm Williamson and a libretto by William Chappell was produced at Sadler's Wells. This copy has presentation inscriptions to the tenor John Fryatt (who played Captain Joubert) from the composer, the librettist, the conductor (Vilem Tausky) and most of the cast of this production: Patricia Kern, April Cantelo, Jennifer Vyvyan, David Bowman, Owen Brannigan, David Hillman, Émile Belcourt, Ann Robson, Wendy Baldwin and Maggie Neville.Very good in chipped and slightly rubbed dustwrapper with several short tears repaired on the reverse.