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Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Harry Peccinotti (photographs) / Oscar Epfs (End-papers) (illustratore). 1st Edition. "Caesar's Vast Ghost, Aspects of Provence" is a truly lovely book wherein we are guided through the historical beauty of Provence by Lawrence Durrell, a man who has lived in Provence for thirty years. Gracing Durrell's genial narration are the beautiful color photographs of Harry Peccinotti. Also included are nineteen poems by Durrell. From the dust-jacket write-up : "For more than thirty years the world-famous writer Lawrence Durrell has lived in Provence, that magical wedge of land in southern France that has been the scene of so much rich and varied history. Julius Caesar gave Provence its name and built his fleet for the Egyptian campaign there - at Arles, which was then a coastal city. Earlier, the Roman general Marius, whom history has sorely neglected, brilliantly defeated a vast horde of Nordic barbarians there, thus saving Rome from almost certain destruction. Long before the Romans discovered Provence, the Phoenicians and Greeks had preceded them. But these earlier settlers were essentially seagoing people, and it was the Romans who left their indelible mark, magnificent vestiges of which remain today: arenas and theaters, arches and bridges, road systems and aqueducts. Caesar's vast ghost still haunts the tourist playgrounds of today. "Durrell clearly loves Provence and savors it as perhaps only an adopted son can. His is not a guidebook, though readers will find here information and countless intriguing morsels unavailable in any tourist handbook. Nor is it a writer's journal, though it preserves memories and cameos from the author's intimate knowledge of the place and people. It is, rather, a letter to posterity, capturing the essential spirit of this ancient, enchanting land, watered by a great river, and the extraordinary array of warriors, historians, philosophers, troubadours, popes, and poets who constitute its human history through the centuries. Durrell was a long-time close friend of Henry Miller, and the two of them influenced each others' work. TITLE : Caesar's Vast Ghost, Aspects of Provence AUTHOR : Lawrence Durrell (1913 - 1990) ILLUSTRATIONS : Photos by Harry Peccinotti; End-papers by Oscar Epfs IMPRINT : Arcade Publishing (Subsidiary of Little, Brown Co.) PLACE : New York YEAR : (1990) EDITION : First U.S. Edition, so stated and with publisher's number line, 1 - 10 STATUS : OP PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Trade hardcover; contains 39 color photographs + 2 small illustrations appended; includes an Introduction, Notes and Sources, an index; xiv + 210 pages; approximately 7 3/8" x 9 5/8"; dark green boards with title, etc. lettered in gold on spine; color-decorated end-papers; color-pictorial photographic dust-jacket; rear panel of jacket has a photo-portrait of Durrell CONDITION -- NEAR FINE -- A very nice copy, previously owned, but clean, bright and presentable - the sole imperfections being to the dust-jacket - mild surface rub and a small with wrinkles to the bottom edge of the rear panel ? it's a lovely copy.