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![Balthazar. [Alexandria Quartet]. Lawrence DURRELL, 1912–1990](/pictures/thumb/57518.jpg?v=1598029146)
Balthazar. [Alexandria Quartet].
London: Faber and Faber, 1958. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, without reviews to jacket. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.250 [6]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the grey illustrated dust-jacket. A crisp, clean copy internally, with some light chipping to jacket edges, toning to jacket spine..... More
The Black Book
Paris: Olympia Press 1969. FIRST OLYMPIA PRESS EDITION. The Traveller's Companion Series, n°77. Pp.301; [1], blank; [1], advertisement; [1], blank; [1], imprint; [1], blank. Publisher's green paper binding, glossy pictorial jacket. Minor toning to text block, trivial nicks to jacket; a clean, fine copy. The author's first novel, not published..... More
The Ikons, and Other Poems.
London: Faber and Faber, 1966. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp. 48. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the yellow and blue typographic dust-jacket, priced at 13/6. Slight offsetting to endpapers. Jacket a little rubbed to edges, and gently toned to spine. Near fine... More
Mountolive.
London: Faber and Faber, 1958. [Modern fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.320. Publisher's yellow cloth with gilt titling and purple decoration to spine. Pictorial dust-jacket priced at 16s net. Some spotting to first and last few leaves, otherwise internally clean, ownership inscription to flyleaf and bookplate and a...... More
![A Persian Lady [Broadside Poem]. Lawrence DURRELL, 1912–1990](/pictures/thumb/58973.jpg?v=1612373707)
A Persian Lady [Broadside Poem].
Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, no date [1963]. [Broadside Poem] FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, a trial proof. A single sheet of Saunders paper (37 x 23cm), printed by Alan Anderson (1922-2016) by hand on his Crown Folio Arab Press. Apparently separate from the six copies officially printed, as per hand-written note to..... More
Sicilian Carousel.
London: Faber and Faber, 1977. [Sicilian Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.223 [1]. With four illustrated plates, including a frontispiece, and a sketch-map of the island. Publisher's red cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dust-jacket titled in red, priced at £5.25. Jacket spine a little toned..... More
The Tree of Idleness, and other poems.
London: Faber and Faber, 1955. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.48. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green typographic dust-jacket, priced at 8/6. Some offsetting to endpapers. Jacket a little toned to spine, with some rubbing and a couple of small closed tears. Near..... More
Vega, and Other Poems.
London: Faber and Faber, 1973. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.54 [2]. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the blue typographic dust-jacket, priced at £1.40. Some light handling; a lovely fine copy. More
The Accursed, Two Diabolical Tales.
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1967. [Strange Tales] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.287 [1]. Publisher's dark brown cloth with red titles to spine. Top edge red. With the dust-jacket featuring a blue and orange ravening wolf, priced at 28s. Also with a contemporary Book Society membership..... More
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