London: John Murray, 1978. First edition. 291pp; index. Blue textured-paper boards stamped in gilt; dust jacket. Light bumping to rear board corners and top corner of textblock; some very faint foxing present to textblock top. Unclipped "£6.50 net" jacket with soiling to rear panel and a touch of foxing to flaps. Spine panel bright and unfaded. A near fine copy in a very good (+) jacket.
A sharp first printing of the first volume of Fermor's lauded travel memoir, which recalls his youthful foot journey across interwar Europe, from Holland to Constantinople.
