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Fine in Near Fine jacket. Second printing. Fine in modestly rubbed and price-clipped and near fine dustwrapper. All of the chapters originally appeared in *Holiday*. Published in England as *Foreign Faces*.
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Good in Poor jacket. 8vo. 241 pages. Upper 2cm of the front flyleaf has been cut away. Page edges foxed, upper edge tanned. Fore-edge uncut. Cloth boards in heavily worn dust-jacket which is now in two parts with loss at the spine. Travel writing from behind the Iron Curtain, in Spain, Turkey and Iran.
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New York. 1964. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket With Some Chips and Tears. 243 pages. hardcover. Jacket design based on an original by Warren Chappell. keywords: Literature Travel England. FROM THE PUBLISHER-V. S. Pritchett has been traveling again-for his own purposes and our delight-with the sympathy, curiosity, insight, and sharply focused critical eye that made his 1954 book on Spain, THE SPANISH TEMPER, unique among recent evocations of places and people. This time he has been behind the Iron Curtain, in Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Romania. Visiting the cities, countryside, and people of those nations with no noticeable prejudices, left or right, except those in favor of humane and civilized values, he now presents a sparklingly fresh and refreshingly untendentious picture of them. Mr. Pritchett has been in Spain again too (it is now thirty-five years since his first book on that endlessly fascinating, always baffling country, MARCHING SPAIN, was published). And so he offers wonderfully evocative and convincing chapters on Madrid and Seville as those cities are now. Always avoiding both the purposes and the cliches of the guidebook and the solemnities of the sociologist, Mr. Pritchett concentrates on what he himself has seen, heard, absorbed, and learned of current human values and conditions and what they are likely to produce for the present and the future. Finally, leaving Central and Western Europe, Mr. Pritchett takes us with him on extraordinary visits to Turkey and Iran, which he naturally sees not as exotic entertainments for foreigners, but as contemporary nations with interesting ways of life-as well as perhaps insoluble problems-of their own. He responds to them with all his usual intelligence and human warmth. With THE SPANISH TEMPER, THE OFFENSIVE TRAVELLER serves to place him in the longtime high tradition of English writing about foreign places. Written with zest, this book is, an uninterrupted pleasure. inventory #6191.
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Good in Very Good jacket. Ex-Library. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. First Edition. Cloth binding, 241 pp. Travels to Turkey and Iran. Library-issued plastic cover taped to boards. Good in very good dustjacket.