"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."
— C. S. Lewis
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 edgewear. Near fine. Durrell's fourth book of poems, inspired by various places in the Mediterranean - including the titular poem. The tree in question stands outside of Bellapaix Abbey and bestows the gift of idleness to anyone who takes shade under it. Item #71513
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