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Balthazar. [Alexandria Quartet].

DURRELL, Lawrence (1912–1990).

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, and a few toned spots to jacket covers. Price-clipped. Very good. The second book in the Alexandria Quartet, following 'Justine' (1957). Item #57518

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