Editore: Faber & Faber, Limited, 1990
ISBN 10: 0571137431 ISBN 13: 9780571137435
Da: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Condizione: Very Good. Photographs By Harry Peccinotti (illustratore). 1st Edition. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
Editore: Faber & Faber 05/11/1990, 1990
ISBN 10: 0571137431 ISBN 13: 9780571137435
Da: AwesomeBooks, Wallingford, Regno Unito
Condizione: Very Good. Photographs By Harry Peccinotti (illustratore). This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .
Editore: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, London, 1990
ISBN 10: 0571137431 ISBN 13: 9780571137435
Da: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Regno Unito
Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Photographs By Harry Peccinotti (illustratore). Provence, where Lawrence Durrell has lived for 30 years, is the motif of this book. It offers the traveller intriguing things they will not find elsewhere and preserves memories and cameos of the Midi and its people. The book aims to capture the essential spirit of the land and those of its warriors, historians, philosophers and poets. The Romans gave form to Provence and Durrell looks at the road systems, the Pont du Gard, the Maison Carree, the arenas, theatres, arches, bridges, memorials and towns. There are chapters on the author's enthusiasms such as bullfighting, the mediaeval Courts of Love and the troubadours, the meals and strange drinks, burial customs, coins and fountains and the favours of Cunegonde. 19 of the author's poem are included. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Editore: Faber & Faber, 1990
ISBN 10: 0571137431 ISBN 13: 9780571137435
Da: medimops, Berlin, Germania
Condizione: acceptable. Photographs By Harry Peccinotti (illustratore). Ausreichend/Acceptable: Exemplar mit vollständigem Text und sämtlichen Abbildungen oder Karten. Schmutztitel oder Vorsatz können fehlen. Einband bzw. Schutzumschlag weisen unter Umständen starke Gebrauchsspuren auf. / Describes a book or dust jacket that has the complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc. (which must be noted). Binding, dust jacket (if any), etc may also be worn.
Editore: Faber & Faber 05/11/1990, 1990
ISBN 10: 0571137431 ISBN 13: 9780571137435
Da: Bahamut Media, Reading, Regno Unito
Condizione: Very Good. Photographs By Harry Peccinotti (illustratore). Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.
Editore: Arcade Pub, New York, 1990
ISBN 10: 155970098X ISBN 13: 9781559700986
Da: Ziebarth Books, Coal Valley, IL, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Peccinotti, Harry, Photographer (illustratore). Near fine with head of spine bumped, in a very good dust jacket with light wear to top edge at spine and corners and long crease along top edge of rear panel.
Editore: Faber & Faber, 1990
ISBN 10: 0571137431 ISBN 13: 9780571137435
Da: Foggypaws, Sonoma, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Photographs By Harry Peccinotti (illustratore). Hardcover in good to very good condition. All inside pages are in great shape. Minor shelf wear to the dust jacket. Dust jacket wrapped in protective cellophane. Ex library.
Editore: Arcade Pub, 1990
ISBN 10: 155970098X ISBN 13: 9781559700986
Da: Riverhorse Books, Saginaw, MI, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Harry Peccinotti (photographer) (illustratore). Book Club Edition. Hardcover book in dust jkt. Book has no markings, inside or out, no rem-mark, and is clean and tight. Dust jkt is not price-clipped, and has no tears, chips or folds, w/light stress across the top of the front panel. 210 pgs w/index and beautiful color photography.
Editore: Arcade Publishing, New York, 1990
ISBN 10: 155970098X ISBN 13: 9781559700986
Da: Longbranch Books, Longbranch, WA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near fine. Harry Peccinotti (illustratore). 1st American edition. Clothbound book condition: fine. Dust jacket condition: very good. Dust jacket very good with slight rubbing and shelf wear at top spine and back; blue cloth boards fine with bright gilt titles at spine; binding sound; endpaper image by Alain Choisnet, Field of Lavender very colorful indeed; fine heavy stock pages with gorgeous color photographs by Peccinotti. 210 pages; 10 X 7.8 X 0.8; 2 lbs. 4 oz. shipping weight. Rome's first province, aside from those yielded up by Carthage after the Second Punic War, was Provincia - meaning province, modern Provence. This most beautiful of French regions includes the French Riviera and such rough, gritty ports as Marseilles, the ancient Massalia, a Greek colony just down the coast from Nice, another Greek colony originally named Nikaia. This region was distinct from the Gallish interior, and it maintained its distinctive qualities through the Middle Ages and into the modern era. Size: 10 X 7.8 X 0.8 1st printing 1st printing 1st printing 1st printing 1st printing 1st printing. book.
Editore: Faber & Faber, Limited, 1990
ISBN 10: 0571137431 ISBN 13: 9780571137435
Da: Better World Books Ltd, Dunfermline, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
Condizione: Good. Photographs By Harry Peccinotti (illustratore). 1st Edition. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Editore: Faber and Faber, 1990
ISBN 10: 0571137431 ISBN 13: 9780571137435
Da: Greener Books, London, Regno Unito
Hardcover. Condizione: Used; Very Good. Photographs By Harry Peccinotti (illustratore). **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! Greener Books.
Editore: Arcade Publishing, NY, 1990
ISBN 10: 155970098X ISBN 13: 9781559700986
Da: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Harry Peccinotti Photos (illustratore). 1st. 1st printing; dj w/unclipped price; in mylar; illustrated end papers; 210 clean, unmarked pages/index.
Editore: Arcade Publishing, U.S.A., 1990
ISBN 10: 155970098X ISBN 13: 9781559700986
Da: Antiquarius Booksellers, Falkland, BC, Canada
Prima edizione
Cloth Boards, Gilt Titles. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Harry Peccinotti - Photographs (illustratore). First Printing. Durrell, a thirty year resident of Provence, offers a guidebook, a writer's journal, and a letter to prosperity, capturing the essential spirit of the area and its array of human history through the centuries. xiv, 210 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm. Bright, clean, unmarked interior, quite fresh. Tight, square binding, no wear to the cloth. Unclipped dustjacket is similar. We ship Worldwide, use both Canada Post and the United States Postal Service, and offer postal charges based on our actual costs, without overcharging. This item weighs 860g unpacked. Canadian domestic postal rates rise with weight, size and distance; Rates to the USA calculated by weight alone as per the USPS. World rates are based on specific destination and weight. Online estimates by the Listing Site may not be correct and either additional, or reduced postage may be required, particularly for Canadian and Overseas shipments, but not usually to the USA. Questions? Explanations? Need an image! Please email. Size: Small Quarto. Book.
Editore: Arcade Publishing, NY, 1990
ISBN 10: 155970098X ISBN 13: 9781559700986
Da: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Harry Peccinotti Photos (illustratore). 1st. 1st printing; dj w/unclipped price; illustrated end papers; 210 clean, unmarked pages/index.
Editore: Arcade, New York, 1990
ISBN 10: 155970098X ISBN 13: 9781559700986
Da: M & M Books, ATHENS, GA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Peccinotti, Harry (illustratore). 1st US Edition.
Editore: Arcade Publishing, New York, 1990
ISBN 10: 0571137431 ISBN 13: 9780571137435
Da: Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA, El Cerrito, CA, U.S.A.
Photographs By Harry Peccinotti (illustratore). BOMC Edition. xiv, 210p., colored illus., dj, quarto format.
Editore: Faber and Faber, London, 1990
ISBN 10: 0571137431 ISBN 13: 9780571137435
Da: 2Wakefield, Wakefield, QC, Canada
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. Photographs By Harry Peccinotti (illustratore). 1st Edition. xiv, 210 pages. 25 cm. Blue cloth with gilt letterings on spine. Frontispiece (color photo). Colorful illustrated end paper pages. Illustrations (color photographs by Harry Peccinotti). Index. Printed on heavy paper. An unmarked, tight and bright book.
Editore: New York: Arcade Publishing (Little, Brown & Co.), 1990, New York, 1990
ISBN 10: 0571137431 ISBN 13: 9780571137435
Da: Jane Atwood, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
Blue Cloth. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Peccinotti, Harry - Photographs By (illustratore). U.S. Reprint, (c) 1990 UK. Blue Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. U.S. Reprint, (c) 1990 UK. Hardback. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 210 pages; 2 p. index; illustrated with 38 color photographs by Harry Peccinotti; from the dj: " What (Durrell) desires .is to bring us "a Provence of landscape insights and historic portraits, but one which keeps firmly in view the identity of the place itself underneath all the supericial changes. To try and trace the permanent Provence still living and breathing underneath the vast panorama of its history; the still present reality living on in spite of such a kaleidoscopic past." Book condition: the upper front cover corner has received a moderate bump.
Editore: Arcade Books (a subsidiary of Little, Brown), 1990
Da: Brothertown Books, Deansboro, NY, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Here 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 - VERY GOOD - A desireable copy, 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.
Editore: Faber & Faber, 1990
ISBN 10: 0571137431 ISBN 13: 9780571137435
Da: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Irlanda
Condizione: Very Good. Photographs By Harry Peccinotti (illustratore). 1990. Hardcover. Good copy with some shelf wear, dustwrapper with minor edge wear. . . . .
Editore: Faber & Faber, 1990
ISBN 10: 0571137431 ISBN 13: 9780571137435
Da: Kennys Bookstore, Olney, MD, U.S.A.
Condizione: Very Good. Photographs By Harry Peccinotti (illustratore). 1990. Hardcover. Good copy with some shelf wear, dustwrapper with minor edge wear. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
Editore: Arcade Publishing / Little, Brown and Company, New York, 1990
ISBN 10: 155970098X ISBN 13: 9781559700986
Da: Borg Antiquarian, Lake Forest, IL, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Cloth. Condizione: Very Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Harry Peccinotti (illustratore). First U.S. Edition, 1st Printing. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering on spine; illustrated with several gorgeous glossy color photos of Provence by Harry Peccinotti; archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped: $35), Index, flamboyant pictorial endpapers; xiv + 210 pages. Lawrence Durrell (1912 - 1990) was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer. Born in India to colonial parents, he was sent to England at the age of eleven for his education. His first book was published in 1935, when he was 23. In March,1935, he and his wife, and his mother and younger siblings, moved to the island of Corfu. Durrell spent many years afterward living around the world, to include Paris, France--associating closely with Henry Miller and Anais Nin; then Alexandria, Egypt and Rhodes; Cordoba, Spain, and Belgrade; and elsewhere. During the late 1930's, Faber and Faber offered to publish Durrell's THE BLACK BOOK in an expurgated edition, but on the advice of author Henry Miller, Durrell declined. It was then published by Obelisk Press in Paris along with Henry Miller's, Max and the White Phagocytes and Anaïs Nin's, Winter of Artifice. Although THE BLACK BOOK was published in 1938, Durrell had written the novel over a 16-month period from September 1935 until December 1936. The novel shows several surrealist influences in part related to the 1936 London International Surrealist Exhibition, about which Henry Miller forwarded Durrell materials from Herbert Read. The initial publication had to be in Paris because THE BLACK BOOK's explicit sexual content prohibited publication in England. It was published in the US in 1960, but not published in Great Britain by Faber & Faber until 1973, following the successful courtroom defense of D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover. Durrell's most famous work is probably The Alexandria Quartet, a tetralogy published between 1957 and 1960. SUPERIOR CONDITION internally and externally (with slight rubbing to the extremities of the dust jacket).
Editore: London: Faber & Faber, 1995, London, 1995
ISBN 10: 0571174000 ISBN 13: 9780571174003
Da: beckfarmbooks, HOLT, Norfolk, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Harry Peccinotti (Photographs) (illustratore). First Edition Thus. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First edition thus - paperback edition with corrections. 181 pages. Published just before Durrell's death, this is part travelogue, part writer's notebook and part autobiography; scattered throughout the text are 19 poems inspired by the genius of Provence. 16 colour photographs.
Editore: Faber and Faber, London, 1990
ISBN 10: 0571137431 ISBN 13: 9780571137435
Da: J J Basset Books, bassettbooks, bookfarm.co.uk, Peter Tavy, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
Blue Cloth. Condizione: VERY GOOD ( AVERAGE). Condizione sovraccoperta: VERY GOOD ( AVERAGE). Colour Illustrations by Harry Peccinotti (illustratore). First Edition. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12". Not Inscribed or Signed. Hard Back.
Editore: Faber, 1990
ISBN 10: 0571137431 ISBN 13: 9780571137435
Da: Hadwebutknown, Birnam, PERTH, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
Photographs By Harry Peccinotti (illustratore). First Edition. Beautifully illustrated history of the area. With photographs by Harry Peccinotti Fine in VG jacket which has fading to the spine.
Editore: NY: Arcade., 1990
Da: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Copia autografata
Condizione: Good. 4to. 210 pp., Blue Cloth, Dust Jacket Very Good, else Near Fine. Color photographs.Heavy book, may cost extra for shipping.Provenance: Collection of Chiefly First Editions by Lawrence Durrell, most signed presentation copies, inscribed to his friend Jeremy Mallinson. Mallinson, was Gerald Durrell's right-hand man from the early days of the Jersey Zoo (now Durrell Wildlife Park). Association copy.
Editore: London, Faber & Faber Ltd. 1990, 1990
ISBN 10: 0571137431 ISBN 13: 9780571137435
Da: Antiquariaat Schot, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Paesi Bassi
Photographs By Harry Peccinotti (illustratore). Original publisher's blue paper-covered boards, gilt title spine, pictorial dustjacket, large 8vo: illustrated endpapers, frontispiece, xij, 210pp., 38 other photographs, chapternotes & references, list illustrations, list poems, conclusion, index, table of contents. Fine copy.
Cloth. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Harry Peccinotti (illustratore). First edition. The first edition of this illustrated memoir by Lawrence Durrell on Provence, with colour photographs. The first edition.Illustrated with full colour photographs by Harry Peccinotti.In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper.This memoir of Provence was written by Lawrence Durrell, a poet, author and travel writer. The work takes you on a journey through Provence, guided by the author's memories of the area from his time living there. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally lovely. The wrap is lovely with only the lightest sunning to the spine and very minor slight marks. Internally firmly bound with clean and generally bright pages. Fine. book.
Editore: Faber and Faber, London, 1990
ISBN 10: 0571137431 ISBN 13: 9780571137435
Da: MHO - Collectors' Books, Fittleworth, Pulborough, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Photographs By Harry Peccinotti (illustratore). 1st Edition. Photographs by Harry Peccinotti, 1st printing, appears unread, not price clipped, no owner's name or other inscription, D/j spine sun faded, D/j has no tears, nicks, creases or marks and is now protected by a clear removable sleeve.
Editore: Faber & Faber, 1990
ISBN 10: 0571137431 ISBN 13: 9780571137435
Da: Aragon Books Canada, OTTAWA, ON, Canada
Condizione: New. Photographs By Harry Peccinotti (illustratore).