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holding the first ever solo exhibition of calligraphy in New Zealand in 1983. More recently in Australia Dave has continued to exhibit his work successfully in Galleries throughout Australia as well as overseas. Opening Australia’s first and only Calligraphy Gallery furthered his aim to have calligraphy recognised as an art form in its own right.Dave’s calligraphic artwork evokes a deep emotional response within the discerning art lover. His creative ability is portrayed by the continual development of new ideas and concepts using such mediums as paper sculptures and hand made papers to explore the wider dimensions of the written word Dave studied with Donald Jackson, Calligrapher to HM The Queen and has been a Fellow of the highly respected, London based Society of Scribes & Illuminators since 1991.”
TRAVELWRITING BY PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR, WILLIAM
DALRYMPLE, PAUL THEROUX, COLIN THUBRON, JAN MORRIS, DERVLAMURPHY, RORY STEWART, SARA SHEELER&C.
196.OXFAM — Ox Travels. Meetings of Remarkable Travel Writers. Introduced by Michael Palin. Edited by Mark Ellingham, Peter Florence and Barnaby Rogerson. London: MPG Biddles for Profile Books, 2011.
£250
8vo (197 x 127mm). Original dark-blue cloth by MPG Biddles, upper board with impressed panel lettered in white, spine lettered in white, pictorial endpapers, red cloth slipcase, yellow fabric marker; pp. 432; portrait frontispiece of Michael Palin and full- page portraits of the authors before each piece; fine.
First edition, limited edition of 250 numbered copies, this no. 80 of 100 special copies
contributing authors on colour-printed ‘bookplate stamps’ designed by artist Sroop Sunar, tipped in before their contribution (sadly, Patrick Leigh Fermor died during the production of
the book — in place of his signature are the dates ‘11/2/1915 - 10/6/2011’); Sunar’s designs are then incorporated into the pictorial endpapers. As Michael Palin states in his preface, ‘Gathered here, for the benefit of Oxfam and its work, are a series of vivid accounts of people and places which not only show the wonder of the world but also the wealth of fine travel writers working today. The theme behind each contribution is, quite loosely, meetings, or to put it more poetically, encounters’ (p. 9).
Ox Travels brings together pieces by some of the leading contemporary travel writers, ranging from canonical figures such as Patrick Leigh Fermor to younger writers, and the contributions comprise: Nicholas Shakespeare ‘Return of the Native’; Sonia Faleiro ‘Madam Say Go’; Paul Theroux ‘The Monk’s Luggage’; Peter Godwin ‘Blood Diamonds’; Ruth Padel ‘Arifin’; William Dalrymple ‘The Nun’s Tale’; Oliver Bullough
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‘The Last Man Alive’; Lloyd Jones ‘The Penguin and the Tree’; Victoria Hislop ‘Manoli’; John Julius Norwich ‘Costa’; John Gimlette ‘The Other World’; Dervla Murphy ‘Three Tibetans in Ireland’; Jason Webster ‘Rafaelillo’; Shehan Karunatilaka ‘The Piece of String’; Sara Wheeler ‘The End of the Bolster’; Hugh Thomson ‘Encounter in the Amazon’; Rory MacLean ‘Love in a Hot Climate’; Jasper Winn ‘A Confederacy of Ghosts’; Aminatta Forna ‘The Beggar King’; Ian Thomson ‘The Fall and Rise of a Rome Patient’; Chris Stewart ‘Cures for Serpents’; Michael Jacobs ‘On the Way to Timbuctoo’; Tifffany Murray ‘Big Yellow Taxi’; Robin Hanbury-Tenison ‘The Orchid Lady’; Raja Shehadeh ‘With Eyes Wide Open’; Janine di Giovanni ‘Decide to be Bold’; Anthony Sattin ‘The Man who Laughed in a Tomb’; Horation Clare ‘A Villain’; Tom Bullough ‘The Zoo from the Outside’; Sarah Maguire ‘Meetings with Remarkable Poets’; Tim Butcher ‘Letting Greene Go’; David Shukman ‘Heat of Darkness’; Jan Morris ‘The Fourth World’; Rory Stewart ‘The Wrestler’; Colin Thubron ‘In Mandalay’; and Patrick Leigh Fermor ‘A Cave on the Black Sea’.
197. PATTON, General George S. War as I knew It. Boston. Houghton Mifflin. 1947.
£298
8vo., original cloth with tatty dust wrapper. Illustrated with maps. Ink name on front free endpaper map, otherwise a very good copy.
First edition inscribed by Ruth Patton Totten, the General’s daughter, to writer Dennis Wheatley, “For Dennis Wheatley from a great admirer, Ruth Patton Totten”. With Wheatley’s bookplate.
A pleasing association copy. During the Second World War, Wheatley was a member of the London Controlling Section, which secretly coordinated strategic military deception and cover plans. His literary talents gained him employment with planning staffs for the War Office. He wrote numerous papers for the War Office, including suggestions for dealing with a German invasion of Britain (recounted in his works Stranger than Fiction and The Deception Planners). The most famous of his submissions to the Joint Planning Staff of the war cabinet was on “Total War”. He was given a commission directly into the JP Service as Wing Commander, RAFVR and took part in advanced planning for the Normandy invasions.
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