Search results for: 'DURRELL, Lawrence'
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DURRELL, Lawrence. Tunc.London : 1968
First edition, first printing. Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 99629
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DURRELL, Lawrence. The Alexandria Quartet.London : 1962
First combined edition. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 59975
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DURRELL, Lawrence. The Alexandria Quartet.London : 1962
Signed limited edition, number 355 of 500 numbered copies, of Durrell's enduring masterpiece. Perhaps his greatest success, the Quartet is a study of love and political intrigue in Alexandria, Egypt before and during World War II. "The four novels emerged in rapid succession from 1957 to 1960 and elicited wildly divergent but generally favourable reviews,... Learn More£1,950.00Stock Code: 119695
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DURRELL, Lawrence. Constance1982
First Edition, First Impression. The third volume of The Avignon Quintet. Learn More£35.00Stock Code: 29015
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DURRELL, Lawrence. An Irish Faustus.London : 1963
First edition, first impression. Learn More£50.00Stock Code: 102097
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DURRELL, Lawrence. The Alexandria Quartet.London : 1962
First collected edition, one of 500 numbered copies signed by the author on the limitation leaf. A beautiful copy. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 82296
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DURRELL, Lawrence. Letters to Jean Fanchette 1958-1963.Paris : 1988
First edition, signed limited issue, number 141 of 200 copies signed by the author and by Fanchette. Loosely inserted is an invitation to the launch of this book held at The Turret Book Shop in June 1988. Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 140560
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DURRELL, Lawrence. [The Alexandria Quartet:] Justine; Balthazar; Mountolive; Clea.London : 1957-60
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. Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 121818
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DURRELL, Lawrence. Sappho.London : 1960
Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Inscribed for Ray Mills by Larry Durrell Edinburgh 1980 'memories of the festival where the play was produced'". Dr Alfred Raymond Mills (1916-2011) met Durrell in 1945, and they formed a lifelong friendship. This is the first edition, second impression of Sappho, published ten... Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 129490
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DURRELL, Lawrence. Bitter Lemons of Cyprus.London : 1957
First edition, first impression. As indicated by the printed wrapper, this is a proof copy of the author's autobiographical piece on Cyprus. Durrell was awarded the Duff Cooper Prize for this work later the same year. Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 122481
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DURRELL, Lawrence. MonsieurLondon : 1974
First edition, first printing. Learn More£50.00Stock Code: 99608
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DURRELL, Lawrence. The Black Book.London : 1973
First UK edition, first impression. Originally published in Paris in 1938. Learn More£35.00Stock Code: 48704
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DURRELL, Lawrence. The Black Book.Paris : 1959
First Olympia Press edition. With a previously unpublished introduction by the author. Originally published in Paris in 1938. Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 106556
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FORTUNE PRESS: DURRELL, Lawrence. Proems.London : 1938
First edition, first impression. An uncommon anthology to which Durrell is the main contributor. Scarce in this condition. Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 71885
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DURRELL, Lawrence (trans.) Six Poems from the Greek of Sekilianos and Seferis.Rhodes : 1946
First edition of Durrell's English translation of two modern Greek poets, privately printed in a very small edition of about 50 copies on Rhodes, where Durrell was posted as a press attaché during the Second World war. WorldCat locates only eleven copies in libraries worldwide (nine in the USA, two in the UK, and one in Australia).
Durrell's... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 144827
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FORTUNE PRESS: DURRELL, Lawrence. Proems.London : 1938
First edition, first impression, of this uncommon anthology to which Durrell is the main contributor. Scarce in this condition. Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 100508
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STEADMAN, Ralph (illus.); DURRELL, Lawrence; Sylvia Plath; and others. Steam Press Portfolio 2.London : 1974
First edition, number 48 of only 50 numbered copies, with each broadside numbered and signed by Steadman. All the poems are further signed by their respective authors, including Lyman Andrews, Asa Benveniste, Ruth Fainlight, and Alan Sillitoe, excepting Plath's for obvious reasons.
Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 100028
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FORTUNE PRESS: DURRELL, Lawrence; Ruthven Todd, Patrick Evans; Rayner Heppenstall; Edgar Foxall; Oswell Blakeston. Proems.London : 1938
First edition, first impression. The Fortune Press made most of its money through a steady output of pornography, and also provided its owner Reginald Caton with a convenient tax dodge for his activities as a slum landlord in Brighton. Caton would occasionally commission works of "proper literature" to provide his pornography list with a veneer of respectability... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 109002
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BIDERMANAS, Izis. Paris des poètes.[Paris] : 1977
First edition, first printing. Izis's superb photographs are accompanied by poems by 24 writers, including Louis Aragon, Lawrence Durrell, Eugène Ionesco, Jacques Prévert, Claude Roy, and Michel Tournier. Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 143809
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STEADMAN, Ralph, & others. Steam Press Portfolio No. 2.London : 1974
First edition, number 17 of 50 copies, with each broadside numbered and signed by Steadman, and with each poem signed by the respective authors (Alan Stillitoe, Lawrence Durrell, Lyman Andrews, Asa Benveniste, Sylvia Plath, and Ruth Fainlight), except for Plath's. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 113954
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MILLER, Henry, and others. [Complete Yes! Capra Chapbook Series.]Santa Barbara, CA : 1972-1977
Complete set of first and signed limited editions, each volume numbered and signed by the author. The works were issued in different limitations of between 50 and 250 copies, with most limited to between 50 and 100 copies. The set comprises works by: Will Baker, Clayton Barbeau, Peter Beagle, William Benton, Ray Bradbury, Edwin Brock, Raymond Carver,... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 111064
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FORD, Charles Henri (ed.) View.New York : 1940-7
A complete set, one volume inscribed by Ford, of first printings of the remarkable American literary and art magazine published by artist and writer Charles Henri Ford and writer and film critic Parker Tyler. View covered the contemporary avant-garde and Surrealist scene, and was published quarterly as finances permitted. The roster of prestigious contributors,... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 109741
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MILLER, Henry - ELLIADI, M. N. Crete, Past and Present.London : 1933
First and only edition, first impression, presentation copy inscribed, partly in romanized Greek, on the front free endpaper "As a token of regard, M. N. Elliadi" to "Kyrios Henry Miller", and with a later gift inscription, from Miller and Lawrence Durrell (as "Larry") "For Ray & George, with gratitude", dated August 1962.
Although undated, the... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 142908
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STARK, Freya. Letters:Wiltshire : 1974-82
Complete set of first editions, first impressions, each volume inscribed by the author to Jean Gunn and her husband William (except 4 and 7, which were added to the set at a later date). Jean Gunn was a close and dear friend of Stark (1893-1993) in Stark's later years. Her husband, William Gunn, was the founder of the European Centre for Disaster Medicine... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 127604
