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1987 A Time of Gifts
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Description
Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper
Book Club Associates 1987 edition in blue cloth with a gilt bird embossed, in the original unclipped dust wrapper.
Patrick Leigh Fermor's A Time of Gifts was the winner of the W.H. Smith Literary Award 1978. First published in 1977, this Book Club Associates edition came a decade later.
In the publisher's original blue cloth binding with the gilt bird embossed on the front board, in the original, vibrant unclipped dust wrapper designed by John Craxton.
A Time of Gifts details Fermor's epic travels on foot from England to Constantinople, before the Second World War.
Condition
In the publisher's original blue cloth binding with the gilt bird embossed on the front board, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart. Dust wrapper is very smart, with very slight creasing to extremities and spine head and tail. Some handling marks to front and back of wrap. Two minor tears to bottom of front panel. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Only the odd spot to first few.
Fine
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