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Descrizione: London: Faber and Faber, 1957-60, 1957. 4 volumes, octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in red, blue, yellow and red morocco respectively after the design of the original cloth bindings, titles to spines gilt on contrasting coloured labels, plain blue endpapers, twin rule to turn-ins, all edges gilt. Housed in a red leather entry slipcase. A fine set. First editions, first impressions. Perhaps Durrell's greatest success, a study of love and political intrigue in Alexandria, Egypt, before and during World War II. Codice articolo 121818

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Descrizione: London: Faber and Faber, 1957-60, 1957. 4 volumes, octavo. Original pink, blue, yellow and red cloth respectively, titles to spines in gilt. With the dust jackets. Ownership signature to front free endpaper of Clea. Some light foxing to edges of text block. An excellent set in the jackets, spine panels of Clea and Justine faded, some shallow chips, a couple of short closed tears and nicks to extremities, some faint foxing. First editions, first impressions. Codice articolo 112378

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Descrizione: Faber & Faber 1957-60, London, 1957. Hardcover. First Edition. Durrell's magnum opus, chronicling the lives of British expatriates in Egypt before WWII. The tetralogy was selected as No. 70 on The Modern Library's list of The 100 Greatest Novels of the 20th Century. Four octavo volumes. Cloth boards; dustjackets; 253+250+320+287pp. First Printings. Each Near Fine, clean and unmarked in original dustwrappers. Justine in unclipped, mildly spine-sunned second state jacket (handprint present on spine) retaining a portion of the "Book Society" wraparound advertising band; Balthazar, Mountolive and Clea each price-clipped, Balthazar with mild spine fading. Still a Near Fine set in attractive, lightly worn dustwrappers, Very Good Plus to Near Fine. Codice articolo 17004

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Descrizione: UK, 1968. Original Wraps. Condizione: Very Good. New Edition. A SMALL COLLECTION OF LETTERS AND 5 PERSONAL PHOTOGRAPHS FROM LAWRENCE DURRELL TO THE BBC PRODUCER, AND HIS LOVER, MARGARET MCCALL. Margaret McCall was a BBC producer, born in 1925 and died in 2008. She was married to the television script writer Philip Broadley who nicknamed her 'Lauren' due to her resemblance to Lauren Bacall. In Broadley's obituary in The Times newspaper, Margaret is mentioned: 'She joined BBC TV and went on to produce some of the corporation's finest arts and music documentaries in the 1960s and 1970s, introducing numerous writers and artists to television for the first time. Among them were Lawrence Durrell, with whom she developed a special friendship, John Betjeman, who likewise became a close friend, Robert Graves and Graham Sutherland.' This 'special relationship' was (more than probably) a love affair with Durrell, on and off, between 1967 and 1972. Here is a list of the Durrell items which are all to the BBC producer Margaret McCall: 1) Date not certain but probably 1967. A.N.S. to the reverse of a postcard of the Parthenon, explaining that it is the view from the room which she will have at the hotel in Athens. Signed with initials. Very good condition apart from one very small tear at the top. 2) Date again uncertain, probably 1967. A.N.S. to the reverse of a colour picture postcard of a priest on Corfu. Durrell compares himself with the priest stating, 'you will hardly recognise me in my new disguise brooding heavily on the past in this charming cove.' and comments that his motor home Escargot 'feels awfully roomy now you have gone'. Signed with initials. Very good condition. 3) Date uncertain, probably 1967. A.L.S. to the reverse of a colour postcard of the amphitheatre in Athens, making arrangements about McCall's film to be made in Greece. Signed with first name. Very good condition. 4) T.L.S., one side, May 1970, on headed notepaper. He gives details of his illness when he was in Paris and how therefore he has moved the date of the French radio coming to his house. He explains he has visitors soon including his brother Gerald. 'I've finished my vampire book in a new form with the poems typed and tidy now and not too bad'. He tells Margaret about his friendship with a young pop singer - 'I think I'll write a number for her'. He comments on the physical work he has been doing and explains that Gerald wants to rent his house 'to shoot his Fabre' (A film about the life of Jean-Henri Fabre( He mentions the Sunday Times account of his musical. Signed 'Much love, Larry'. With five personal photos including ones of himself with others. With envelope addressed in his hand. 5) A.L.S. to the reverse of a large colour picture postcard, September 1970. He explains the buggy is just what he wanted and that he is 'painting like mad' for his exhibition in Paris. He also mentions a song he has written which is going to be recorded. Signed 'Much love Larry Durrell'. Good condition. 6) T.L.S. on both sides of an old Carte postale. He is anxious about his forthcoming Epfs art exhibition in Paris - 'the thing has got out of hand . a nice uncrowded private joke is being whipped up . Figaro has already carried pics of the pics . I fear all this may be too successful'. He comments on a friend's illness and an accident another friend has had. He explains he is 'working madly on the water colour section. Never again will show after this lot . I must start a book'. Mentions Henry Miller. Signed 'Love L'. With envelope addressed in his hand 7) T.L.S., 1 1/2 sides of headed notepaper, November 1970, beginning 'Darling Margaret'. He thanks her for coming to Epfs and explains he has had four days of non-stop interviews 'including .! and assorted nightshrts . I must also apologise for knocking you down on the Bongoland floor but you fall so beautifully'. He explains his leprosy has begun to clear and that he has done some yoga and walking. He gives details of the 'lovely autumn down here'. He explains that although he ate forbidden food in Paris, he has lost a kilo - 'is it you I have to thank?'. He has had a 'very chirpy' letter from his daughter Saph. He had been worried that Margaret was falling in love with somebody else. He continues 'I hover like a moth over a book'. He finishes the letter very affectionately, 'Well now dalring M, work hard, reflect a bit on me. I send you a specially tender baiser d'amour. And other chunks of the inexpressible, Love Larry'. He adds a handwritten note about General de Gaulle (who had just died). With envelope addressed in his hand. 8) T.L.S., one side of headed notepaper, January 1971. McCall has spent Christmas with him. He is working hard. He comments on their relationship - in part, 'Once upon a time you drew a chalk line and since I have been careful not to step over it. It's not my affair how you see things, or how you do things'. He makes comments about cars and buggies he is investigating. He gives details about friends who are now staying with him. He is bored and may go to Paris. 'I have axed smoke and drink with the usual result - down two kilos in three days . I feel so well on it'. Finishes by stating, Big sentiments are banned so I won't be too expansive and blush you; I think about you a bit but what I think is my own affair, don't you see? Grosse Bise, Larry. Next to it he hand draws a heart. With envelope with typed address. To the reverse of Durrell's letter is a rough draft by McCall of her reply, mentioning her feelings for both her husband and Durrell. 9) T.L.S., one side of headed notepaper, April 1972. He thanks her for her 'Easter egg visit. It was fine, as well as a trifle confusing in a queer way. I felt first very elated then all at sea then in the dark then extremely elated. Tomorrow I shall either feel elated or else that we are going to walk the plank'. (The relationship is beginning to cool and Durrell is unsure of his feelings etc). He has sent off the Rhone book - 'It has everything in it suitable for the subject'. Codice articolo 014006

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Descrizione: London: Faber and Faber, 1962, 1962. Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in red morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, single rule to boards, twin rule to to turn-ins, dark green endpapers, gilt edges. A fine copy. Signed limited edition, number 56 of 500 numbered copies. Durrell's enduring masterpiece. Codice articolo 76495

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Descrizione: Faber and Faber, London, 1960. Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. A very solid example of the true 1st editions, 1st issues of the 4 titles which make up Durrell's masterful "Alexandria Quartet". Published separately between 1957-1960, the Quartet includes "Justine" (1957), followed in quick succession by "Balthazar" (1958), "Mountolive" (1958) and, finally, "Clea" (1960). All 4 books have held up very well and all 4 are tight and Near Fine in crisp, price-intact, VG+ or better dustjackets. Save for a bit of very light chipping at the spine crowns and just a touch of darkening along several of the spines, this is an attractive, very well-preserved set. Codice articolo 13661

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Descrizione: London Faber and Faber -1960, 1957. First editions, first impressions, four volumes, 8vo., comprising Justine, internally fine, dust-jacket, price-clipped with two small closed chips and one small, closed tear to spine edges, light dust-soiling and a few spots to edges and fore-edge, otherwise very good and a better than usual example , 1957; Balthazar, internally fine, dust-jacket toned at extremities and on spine, closed tear to base of upper fold on spine, otherwise near-fine, 1958; Mountolive, fine, 1958; Clea, internally fine, a couple of minor marks to upper panel of dust-jacket but none of the usual fading to the spine, 1960; original cloth, bright, in all a very good-plus set. At the age of 11, Durrell, who was born in the North of India near Tibet, was obliged to move to England. He disliked living in such a different country and culture and never fully adapted to it. Only later, in 1935, when he and his family made a decision to live in Greece he felt that it reminded him of India. While in Greece, he drafted a novel entitled The Book of the Dead, a predecessor to his first volume of The Alexandria Quartet. However, only much later, in 1952, after his return to the Mediterranean, Durrell began actually writing Justine. During the 1940s he had worked for the British Information Office in Egypt. He was separated from his first wife, Nancy Myers, and in Alexandria he met Eve Cohen, a Jewish woman on whom the character of Justine is loosely based and who became his second wife. Durrell would eventually complete the Quartet in France. The Alexandria Quartet was a success, both with the critics and with an increasing readership and Durrell was acknowledged as being one of the most important writers of his time. Codice articolo 94249

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Descrizione: 1957-1960, 1957. First Editions. Four volumes Justine: very nice copy in slightly spotted and rubbed, price-clipped, dust-wrapper that is slightly darkened at spine panel; newspaper cutting of a photograph of the author neatly mounted on p.[12] (a blank facing the first page of text) and bordered by rules in red ink, ownership signature on front free end-paper. Balthazar: very nice copy in dust-wrapper that is a little darkened at spine panel. Mountolive: very nice copy in dust-wrapper that is chipped and worn with slight loss at head and foot of spine panel and has some loss to head of lower panel; a previous owner has supplied the dust-wrapper of a later impression to protect the original. Clea: fine copy in dust-wrapper that is a little faded at spine panel. Codice articolo 6150

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Descrizione: Twentieth Century-Fox, Los Angeles, 1969. Original title card maquette hand lettered by Harold Adler for the 1969 film. Based on the "Alexandria Quartet" by Lawrence Durrell. Harold Adler was a calligrapher who created hand lettered titles on over 100 films, worked frequently with Alfred Hitchcock, and was a favorite of legendary title sequence designers Saul Bass and Pablo Ferro. In addition to "Justine" his credits include "Comanche!" (1956), "The Man with the Golden Arm" (1955), "The Seven Year Itch" (1955), "Carmen Jones" (1954), "Psycho" (1960), "The Birds" (1963), "In the Heat of the Night" (1967), and "Finian's Rainbow" (1969). In 2012, an exhibition of Adler's work was organized by noted typographer and design historian Jill Bell at the American Advertising Federation, Kansas City. A young British schoolmaster and poet travels to Alexandria, where he meets Justine, the mysterious wife of a banker, whom he discovers is involved in a plot to arm the Jewish underground in Palestine. Shot, in part, on location in Tunisia. 17.25 x 11.5 inches. Black ink on white card stock, with tissue paper overlay. Near Fine, with light toning to the card edges. Holograph annotations, one noting "original," to the tissue overlay and card. Codice articolo 132781

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Descrizione: Faber & Faber, 1957. First edition. Publisher red cloth, with blue spine label, titled gilt, in the pictorial dustwrapper. A fine copy, a little foxing to edges and endpapers, in a very near fine dustwrapper, bright and crisp with just a touch of fading to the spine. The first novel in Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, and certainly the most difficult to find in nice condition. Codice articolo 38519

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Descrizione: London: Faber and Faber, 1962, 1962. Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in red morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, rule to boards gilt, inner dentelles, dark green endpapers. A fine copy. First combined edition. Codice articolo 59975

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Descrizione: Faber and Faber (1957-60), London, 1957. First edition of each of the four volumes comprising his most critically acclaimed work. JUSTINE shows light foxing to page edges but is otherwise near fine in very good or better dust jacket with slight toning to spine, light soiling and tanning and tiny chips at spine tips; BALTHAZAR shows faint spotting along inner hinges but is otherwise bright and fine in very good to near fine dust jacket slightly darkened on spine and toned on edges and with few tiny corner chips; MOUNTOLIVE shows light scattered foxing to page edges and endpapers, otherwise near fine in like dust jacket with touch of rubbing, slight tanning to spine and tips nicked; CLEA shows moderate foxing to endpapers most noticeably on front pastedown but is only lightly foxed on page edges, otherwise bright and fine in near fine dust jacket with touch of light soiling and slightly sunned. Note: Ownership signature of "Harry Blackmer, Paris, 1960" on front pastesdown of CLEA. Presumably the same Blackmer in the 1932 Supreme Court decision that recognized a state's right to retain jurisdiction over its citizens abroad (Blackmer v. United States, 284 U.S. 421). Blackmer was found guilty of contempt for refusing to appear when subpoenaed as a witness for the U.S. in a criminal trial related to the Teapot Dome Scandal. Altogether a very good to near fine set. HIS MOST CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED WORK. Codice articolo 53820

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Descrizione: London Faber 1957, 1957. All first edition, first printings, published by Faber between 1957-60 (with no mention of subsequent printings). Comprising: JUSTINE Published by: Faber and Faber in 1957. Bound in original red boards with gilt/gold lettering to the spine with no inscriptions, marks or stamps whatsoever. Some fading and a little wear to the gilt titling to the spine and some light marks to the centre of the foot of the front board. A good+ book. In a very good+ FIRST ISSUE (later issues had the hand-print mimicking the front cover design to the spine of the dust wrapper and review for 'White Eagles Over Serbia' being the last review on the rear panel). Small chip to the top of the front panel. Not price clipped showing 15s as called for. Some light chipping to corners and some browning to the spine. BALTHAZAR Published by: Faber and Faber in 1958. Bound in blue boards with gilt/gold lettering to the spine. Tightly bound without inscriptions. A very good book. In a very good+ clipped first issue wrapper. With a little light chipping to the spine tips. Two small internal tape repairs. MOUNTOLIVE Published by: Faber and Faber in 1958. Bound in yellow boards with gilt/gold lettering to the spine. Tightly bound with one name and date to the front pastedown. A near fine book with one small stain to the top edge. In a near fine unclipped wrapper (first issue) with some light wear to the head of the spine. CLEA Published by: Faber and Faber in 1960. Bound in orange boards with gilt/gold lettering to the spine. Tightly bound with only one name to the ffep. A fine book. In a near unclipped wrapper - a little faded to the spine. A rare set of all four first editions in the Alexandria Quartet and the author's masterpiece. Codice articolo 10962

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Descrizione: London: Faber and Faber, 1962, 1962. Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine gilt on black ground, hand-print design to upper board in black, yellow endpapers, top edge gilt. With the original acetate dust jacket, in the publisher's black and gold slipcase. A superb copy. First collected edition, one of 500 numbered copies signed by the author on the limitation leaf. A beautiful copy. Codice articolo 82296

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Descrizione: Faber. London. 1957 - 1960, 1957. Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. FOUR VOLUMES. All FIRST EDITIONS. 8vo. (8.1 x 5.3 inches). A fine and clean set in fine recent leather bindings of full dark blue morocco. Spines with five raised bands, the compartments ruled, lettered and decorated in gilt. Decorative floral gilt border on the boards. Top edges gilt Housed in a felt-lined slip case with dark blue cloth covering. A fine set of this popular tetralogy. Codice articolo 8797

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Descrizione: n/a. Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 8435009041. Codice articolo 9788435009041

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Descrizione: Faber and Faber, 1957. Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The Alexandria Quartet, all first printings published by Faber in their original jackets. Justine: very good book in a near fine, price-clipped jacket. Balthazar: a near fine book in a near fine jacket -- not price-clipped. Mountolive: fine book in a fine jacket -- not price-clipped. Clea: fine book in about a near fine jacket with slight fading to the red lettering on the spine and a closed tear to the rear flap fold. A very presentable set, mostly near fine. Codice articolo ABE-1549311567147

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Descrizione: London: Faber and Faber., 1962. First single volume edition. Signed by the author. Limited to 500 copies. Bound in the publisher's orange boards, with original acetate and black and gold slipcase. A fine copy, with the slightest of fading to the spine. Housed in a purpose-made folding box. The author had always intended the Alexandria Quartet to be read as one novel. This printing also allowed him to correct and amend the text of the first editions. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. Codice articolo 7470

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Descrizione: London: Faber and Faber, 1962, 1962. Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine in gilt on blue ground. With the dust jacket. Spine ends gently bumped, short closed tear to rear board, light rubbing. A near-fine copy in the very good dust jacket, slight toning to spine and edges, a few edge-splits, minor loss to spine ends and rear panel. First one-volume edition, first impression, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Margaret McCall from Larry Durrell" along with a full-page drawing of a map titled "Languedoc by Epfs" and showing Sommières, Nîmes, Uzès, Cevennes, and Anduze. These places were of particular importance to him: "he completed Justine, the first volume of the Quartet, on Cyprus in 1956, after his separation from Eve, and wrote the remaining three volumes in Languedoc, where he lived near Nîmes and in Sommières" (ODNB). The recipient Margaret McCall (1925-2008) was a BBC producer. She was married to the television script writer Philip Broadley who nicknamed her "Lauren" due to her resemblance to Lauren Bacall. In Broadley's obituary in The Times newspaper, Margaret is mentioned: "She joined BBC TV and went on to produce some of the corporation's finest arts and music documentaries in the 1960s and 1970s, introducing numerous writers and artists to television for the first time. Among them were Lawrence Durrell, with whom she developed a special friendship, John Betjeman, who likewise became a close friend, Robert Graves, and Graham Sutherland". This "special relationship" was likely a love affair with Durrell. She did an interview for the BBC "Intimations: Lawrence Durrell. Strong opinions from the author of The Alexandria Quartet" broadcast in 1965, probably at the beginning of their affair. A lovely association copy. Codice articolo 136288

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Descrizione: Faber & Faber, London, 1962. Signed limited first edition of Durrell's masterpiece, one of 500 numbered copies. Signed by Lawrence Durrell on the limitation page. Octavo, original orange cloth, hand-print design to upper board in black, yellow endpapers, top edge gilt. With the original acetate dust jacket, in the publisher's black and gold slipcase. Bookplate to the front pastedown of book collector Otis Skinner Blodget. An exceptional example. Lawrence Durrell's masterpiece The Alexandria Quartet are four novels set in Alexandria, Egypt during the 1940s. The first of his four novels Justine "demands comparison with the best books of our century." Balthazar continues Durrell s epic series with "a spontaneous, resourceful new beauty" and, in the third novel Mountolive, Durrell again creates a "work of splendid craft and troubling veracity." The tetralogy s final novel Clea completes Durrell s stated design of modeling "the series on the relativity proposition in physics" altogether achieving "a spontaneous, resourceful new beauty" (New York Times). Codice articolo 97421

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Descrizione: Faber and Faber, London, 1962. Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Signed Limited Edition. Signed limited edition, and first single-volume edition. Copy number 88 of 500 copies, signed by Lawrence Durrell. Near Fine with cloth lightly rubbed at extremities and faintly faded at the spine; small, faint scrapes to edge of page block at early pages. In acetate wrapper which toned and dimpled at the spine. In a Very Good publisher's slipcase which is lightly rubbed at the extremities, and darkened unevenly along the edges. The first single-volume edition of Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, containing the novels Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive and Clea; Signed by the author. Codice articolo 180903001

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Descrizione: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York, 1957. Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Each volume signed by Durrell on front free endpaper, except for Mountolive signed on title page. All early printings (though none firsts). All vols. (except for Justine) very good with good+ dust jackets: minor wear and handling soil; a few smalls tears to jackets; slightly inscreased soiling and discoloring to rear panels of Mountolive and Clea. Justine shows significant rub wear at head & foot of spine and significant dampstaining and chipping to jacket; signature also smudged. Books come in slipcase, scuffed and edge-worn. Jacket flaps clipped. Very rare to have the complete Quartet signed. Happy to send pictures. Signed by Author(s). Codice articolo 034843

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Descrizione: Dutton. Condizione: new. Codice articolo thinkB0007DLLR6

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Descrizione: Faber and Faber, 1962. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, 302/500 COPIES signed by the author, pp. 884, 8vo, original scarlet buckram, backstrip and front cover blocked and lettered in black, blind and gold, the backstrip a shade faded (as often), t.e.g., glassine-jacket, board slipcase with a little rubbing, very good. 'It has been possible, for this edition, to correct a number of small slips pointed out by readers and critics, and also to add some passages which were cut out of the original volumes in the MS. stage.' (Preface). Codice articolo 61925

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Descrizione: Faber, London, 1962. Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Limited Edition. The special issue of the first single-volume edition, limited to 500 numbered copies, signed by the author (this being #184). A short preface by the author details a few minor textual alterations. 8vo. 884pp. Orange buckram lettered and ruled in gold at spine and with a hand motif black-stamped to the upper board. Cloth at backstrip lightly faded, else in fine state with original unprinted protector and decorated slipcase, a little chafed at extremities. Somewhat over bold former owner gift inscription to the front free endpaper. Signed by Author(s). Codice articolo ARC90384

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Descrizione: London: Faber and Faber, (1962), 1962. Thick 8vo, original orange-red buckram, gilt lettering. Durrell's famous masterpiece of fiction, here in its first collected, limited edition, the text of which was slightly revised by Durrell. Cloth very slightly worn; fine copy in the publisher's slipcase which is a little scraped and dinged. First collected edition, limited issue, number 390 of 500 numbered copies, signed by Durrell. Codice articolo 27898

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Descrizione: Faber, UK, 1957. Cloth. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Very Good. First Edition. 1st Edition 1957. Book is very good+ and quite bright. Contents good. Pages lightly foxed. The wrapper is near very good and quite bright. Edges lightly rubbed. Minicule loss to spine corners. Light soiling/staining and darkening to spine. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 1451 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Codice articolo 018800

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Descrizione: Faber and Faber, 1963. Full-Leather. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. Reprint. 1963 second edition, first printing of Justine, 1960s reprints of first editions of the other three books. Spines slightly faded. We have more books available by this author! The complete set of four books, finely rebound in two volumes by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Full burgundy morocco, gilt titles, rules, and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. The collector who had these rebound included his/her monogram on the front corner: O.C.S. "The Alexandria Quartet is a tetralogy of novels by British writer Lawrence Durrell, published between 1957 and 1960. A critical and commercial success, the books present four perspectives on a single set of events and characters in Alexandria, Egypt, before and during World War II. As Durrell explains in his preface to Balthazar, the four novels are an exploration of relativity and the notions of continuum and subject-object relation, with modern love as the subject. The Quartet offers the same sequence of events through several points of view, allowing individual perspectives to change over time. Codice articolo 2263961

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Descrizione: Faber and Faber, London, 1962. Condizione: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. London, Faber and Faber, 1962 (first thus). Octavo; orange buckram lettered in gilt on a black panel on the spine, with an illustration of a black handprint in a small indented panel in the front cover; top edge gilt; spine very slightly flecked; a fine copy with the fine original clear acetate dustwrapper and the publisher's slipcase (slightly rubbed at the extremities). The first collected edition, with revisions. Number 72 of 500 copies signed by the author. Codice articolo 102025

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