FERMOR (Patrick Leigh).

A Time to Keep Silence.

First edition. With drawings by John Craxton and photographs by M. Le Cure Bretocq and Joan Eyres Monsell. 8vo. Original gilt-lettered red cloth, dust jacket designed by Peter Todd Mitchell. London, John Murray, 1957.

£225.00
FERMOR (Patrick Leigh).
A Time to Keep Silence.

Patrick Leigh Fermor’s third book in which he details his experiences in various monasteries and his thoughts on monastic life.

From the library of Orwell scholar and former UCL deputy librarian Ian Angus, with his neat pencilled ownership to the front free endpaper. Angus was the co-editor of Orwell’s Collected Journalism, Essays and Letters published in 1968 and also later contributed to editing the enormous 20-volume edition of Orwell’s Complete Works published 1997-8.

A very good copy indeed, contents generally clean and fresh, dust jacket slightly worn with a few areas minor chipping.

Stock No.
260941