mount athos de norwich john julius reresby sitwell (9 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.01.

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 2.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Poor. 1st Edition. Publisher Hutchinson, London 1966. First edition. Good condition. Green boards with gilt lettering, wear to corners and ends of spine, some staining on boards. Tight binding, no markings or inscriptions. Original blue pictorial unclipped d/j in poor condition, creasing and tears, small sections missing, discolouration inside, spine faded.

1st Edition. Hardback. Near good in near good, torn with loss, worn and plastic protected, d/w. Spine cocked and bumped, boards mottled and marked, edge of boards and corners bumped, pages browned with some foxing, spotting to edge of pages. Heavy book, will require extra postage - please email for exact postage quote and information on any available discounts.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. A. Costa (Photographer) (illustrateur). 1st Edition. First Edition 1966 by two brilliant writers one is from the eccentric Sitwell family. While Norwich and Sitwell are responsible for the two parts of the book the history and the monasteries and villages their photographer companion Costa, has added thirty-two pages of photographs in full color and as many black and white. Mount Athos is a Republic of Monks. It has been a republic with its own government for over a thousand years. There are NO Women allowed! What they do have are the great orthodox monasteries; seventeen of which are Greek, one Russian, one Serbian and one Bulgarian set in the slopes of this very beautiful mountain on a penisula. The Russian Footprint has remained strong through Panteleimon; a Russian Orthodox monastery built on the southwest side of the peninsula of Mt. Athos in Greece. In one of my pics 5&6 you see the white & pink Panteleimon exterior and a rich gallery of pictures of the Romanov family inside. TODAY, Russia can freely exchange rubles for Euros in ATHOS. It is their secret bank in Europe! 191 pp.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. John Julius Norwich; Reresby Sitwell; A. Costa (illustrateur). First Edition. First edition, first printing. Text and images are unmarked; pages are bright, though the page edges are a little age toned. Some of the publication information has been covered up with black marker on the copyright page. Binding is tight and square. Dust jacket shows some wear around the edges and there is a small closed tear at both the head and base of the spine. International/Priority shipping at cost. 191pp.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. COSTA, A.; John JUlius Norwich; Reresby Sitwell (illustrateur). 1st Edition. SIGNED by John Julius Norwich and inscribed on the title page, quato, green cloth, some bleach spots, in good (chipped and minor losses) dust wrapper in protective cover, maps on end papers, previous ownership on front free end paper, illustrated with the author and A. Costa's photographs, 191 pages including bibliography and index. [QP]. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. A. Costa (illustrateur). 1st Edition. First edition. Photographic illustrations, by A. Costa and the two authors. 4to. Publisher's cloth, very good, map endpapers, with beautiful images throughout, some in colour, slight lean to the spine, shelf-wear very light, dustwrapper with some small closed tears, some discreet tape repairs, usual edge-wear and very minimal loss, bright, and protected in a plastic sleeve, flat-signed by JJN to the title page. A particularly good example of this excellent book - the two authors gained access to the secretive peninsular in northern Greece and its Orthodox monastic complexes, taking some remarkable images. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st Edition. 191 printed pages. Map endpapers. Loosely inserted is a signed letter on headed notepaper from Norwich (1929-2018) to Jonathan Haw. 22.5 x 28.5 cm. Original green cloth. Spine slightly faded and stained. Musty smell. Complete with photographic dust jacket (edges slightly torn with small loss at the top edge on the back panel). Jonathan Haw was a rower at Keble College, Oxford, who established the New York branch of the legal firm Slaughter & May and who served as Master of the Armourer & Brasier's Company in 2008 and 2013. The 2002 letter gives details of bookshops that stocked second-hand copies of this book, and says that it never ran to a second edition, expressing gratification that people were still interested in reading it. It was Norwich's first published book, based on his second visit to Mount Athos with a Greek friend Costa, who took photos, and Sacheverell Sitwell's son Reresby, (who bought a rucksack stuffed with luxury food items from Fortnum & Mason, where he worked) who were both at school at Eton together. Reresby wrote about the itinerary of the trip and Norwich wrote a historical essay on Mount Athos- in the days when its Orthodox monastic complexes were virtually unvisited and devoid of external contact, on the secretive peninsular in northern Greece. Signed by Author(s).