Marrin's Bookshop

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FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. 222 pp. Bound in original brown cloth, gilt, in price clipped pictorial. dust wrapper, which has sunned spine. Minor wear to extremities and light spotting of edges; otherwise a very good copy. Bookseller's label of Hellenic Book Service, Charing Cross Road and 1980 signature, both on first free endpaper. Illustrated by vignette drawings in text and by double page map. A personal perception of Greece, based on the author's travels. Peter Levi (1931-2008) was a poet, translator, novelist, literary biographer and travel author and writer on religion and Greece; a former Jesuit, he resigned the priesthood to marry in 1977 and was Professor of Poetry at Oxford, 1984-89.