Description:
Secker & Warburg,, [1958]. 8vo., First Edition, with 13 plates and rear endpaper map; cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. Evocative travel diary. Fielding (1918-1991) was one of the first SOE agents (with Paddy Leigh Fermor and Dick Barnes) to be landed in Crete where he spent two years or so in a precarious game of hide and seek with the occupying Germans. Arrested in France later in the war, he was saved from execution by the Polish SOE agent Krystyna Skarbek. In post-war years a close friend of Lawrence Durrell, Fielding developed a career as writer and translator, achieving acclaim for his translation of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'. Scarce, especially in this condition.
Search Results: Authors starting with X from Island Books
You searched for:
- Bookseller inventory: Island Books (authors starting with X)
- Bookseller: Island Books
Results 1 - 6 of 6
Corsair Country. The Diary of a Journey along the Barbary Coast.
by FIELDING Xan
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
$139.54$15.22 shipping to USA
Show Details
Item Price
$139.54
$15.22
shipping to USA
Corsair Country. The Diary of a Journey along the Barbary Coast. [Travel Book Club edition].
by FIELDING Xan
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
$38.06$15.22 shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
Travel Book Club,, [1959]. 8vo., First Edition thus; original pale blue cloth, backstrip lettered in black, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy. Published a year after the first edition. Evocative travel diary. Fielding (1918-1991) was one of the first SOE agents (with Paddy Leigh Fermor and Dick Barnes) to be landed in Crete where he spent two years or so in a precarious game of hide and seek with the occupying Germans. Arrested in France later in the war, he was saved from execution by the Polish SOE agent Krystyna Skarbek. In post-war years a close friend of Lawrence Durrell, Fielding developed a career as writer and translator, achieving acclaim for his translation of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'. In common with all TBC editions, this issue omits the plates and map present in the original.
Item Price
$38.06
$15.22
shipping to USA
Hide and Seek. The Story of a Wartime Agent. Introduced by Clare Mulley. FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE: WITH COPIOUS ANNOTATIONS AND EXTRA LARGE MAP
by FIELDING Xan
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
$88.80$15.22 shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
Folio Society,, 2014. 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, 12 pages of colour and monochrome plates, a large folding coloured map and endpaper charts; pictorial olive cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in red, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. Splendid and important edition of Fielding's classic account of SOE operations in Crete. The photographs are previously unpublished. THIS COPY IS COPIOUSLY AND NEATLY ANNOTATED ON FRONT AND REAR ENDPAPERS. THE ANNOTATIONS INCLUDE A FULL GLOSSARY OF PERSONS AND PLACES, AND THERE IS ALSO A LARGE FOLDING COLOURED MAP IN HAND-MADE POCKET ON REAR PASTE-DOWN.
Item Price
$88.80
$15.22
shipping to USA
Hide and Seek. The Story of a War-Time Agent. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN FULL MOROCCO
by FIELDING Xan
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
$716.70$15.22 shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
Secker & Warburg,, 1954. 8vo., First Edition, with 15 plates on 8 and endpaper maps in red; handsomely bound in full burgundy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, custom-made slip-case, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. ARGUABLY THE SCARCEST OF ALL THE SOE PERSONAL MEMOIRS. Fielding (1918-1991) was one of the first SOE agents (with Paddy Leigh Fermor and Dick Barnes) to be landed in Crete where he spent two years or so in a precarious game of hide and seek with the occupying Germans. Arrested in France later in the war, he was saved from execution by the Polish SOE agent Krystyna Skarbek. In post-war years a close friend of Lawrence Durrell, Fielding developed a career as writer and translator, achieving acclaim for his translation of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'. SCARCE. Enser, p.192.
Item Price
$716.70
$15.22
shipping to USA
Hide and Seek. The Story of a War-Time Agent. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
by FIELDING Xan
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
$309.51$15.22 shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
Secker & Warburg,, 1954. 8vo., First Edition, with 15 plates on 8 and endpaper maps in red; red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy. With neat personal name stamp on front free endpaper. Arguably the scarcest of all the SOE personal memoirs. Fielding (1918-1991) was one of the first SOE agents (with Paddy Leigh Fermor and Dick Barnes) to be landed in Crete where he spent two years or so in a precarious game of hide and seek with the occupying Germans. Arrested in France later in the war, he was saved from execution by the Polish SOE agent Krystyna Skarbek. In post-war years a close friend of Lawrence Durrell, Fielding developed a career as writer and translator, achieving acclaim for his translation of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'. EXTREMELY SCARCE. Enser, p.192.
Item Price
$309.51
$15.22
shipping to USA
Hide and Seek. The Story of a War-Time Agent. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
by FIELDING Xan
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
$710.36$15.22 shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
Secker & Warburg,, 1954. 8vo., First Edition, with 15 plates on 8 and endpaper maps in red; red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwapper, the latter chipped at head and tail. Dustwrapper artwork by Anthony Baynes. Arguably the scarcest of all the SOE personal memoirs. Fielding (1918-1991) was one of the first SOE agents (with Paddy Leigh Fermor and Dick Barnes) to be landed in Crete where he spent two years or so in a precarious game of hide and seek with the occupying Germans. Arrested in France later in the war, he was saved from execution by the Polish SOE agent Krystyna Skarbek. In post-war years a close friend of Lawrence Durrell, Fielding developed a career as writer and translator, achieving acclaim for his translation of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.192.
Item Price
$710.36
$15.22
shipping to USA