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Lawrence Durrell | First Editions
1912 - 1990
Lawrence George Durrell (27 February 1912 – 7 November 1990) was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer. He is most remembered for his series, The Alexandria Quartet - particularly the first of the quartet's four novels, Justine. Durrell was a close personal friend of the novelist Henry Miller, and collaborated with writers such as Anaïs Nin and Alfred Perles.
Durrell's novel, The Black Book: An Agon, faced some controversy when published in Paris in 1938. The mildly pornographic work did not appear in Britain in 1973. In the story, the main character Lawrence Lucifer struggles to escape the spiritual sterility of dying England, and gravitates toward Greece's warmth and fertility.
See below our stock of Lawrence Durrell First Editions and signed copies.
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The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea.
London: Faber and Faber, 1962. [Modern Literature] FIRST ONE-VOLUME TRADE EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.884. Publisher's salmon cloth, with gilt titles to a blue backing on the spine. With the typographic dust-jacket. Small black ink ownership to fly-leaf, and a bookseller's label to the front paste-down, otherwise..... More
Cities, Plains, and People.
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1946. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.72. Publisher's yellow cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at 6s to front flap. Bright and clean internally. Blue ink ownership to flyleaf. Cloth lightly toned to spine and extremities. Jacket spine sunned..... More
The Ikons, and Other Poems.
London: Faber and Faber, 1966. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, first impression. 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..... More
Quinx, or The Ripper's Tale.
London: Faber and Faber, 1985. [Modern Literature] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Ocatavo (21 x 14cm), pp. 201; [7]. Publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt to spine, illustrative dust-jacket with printed price of £8.95 to front flap. Slight spotting on top edge of textblock, water staining visible only on the inside of..... More
The Tree of Idleness, and other poems.
London: Faber and Faber, 1955. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, first impression. 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..... More
The Tree of Idleness, and other poems.
London: Faber and Faber LTD, 1955. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.48. Publisher's purple cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at 8s 6d to front flap. Internally bright and clean but for some toning/offsetting to endpapers. Crease to edge of half-title. Mild..... More
Tunc.
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1968. [Modern literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.316; [4]. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at 25s to front flap. Contents clean, no inscriptions. Lightly handled; near fine. Faustian novel by the British expatriate writer Lawrence Durrell..... More
White Eagles Over Serbia.
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1957. [Elite Forces / wartime espionage adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.200; [4]. Publisher's russet cloth, white titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket priced at 12/6 to front flap. Contents clean, no inscriptions, edges gently spotted, jacket is fine. Wartime novel set..... More
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