Durrell Lawrence George (62 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Octavo, hardcover, near fine in VG dj. An unusual look at the letters of two of the great writers of the time. B&W Photographs. 400 p. Selected letters from the period beginning in August of 1935 to the end of October, 1959. Editor's introduction; biographical chronologies, plus index (latter with "explanatory notes").…

Hardcover. Condition: In quite good condition. First Impression. Octavo, [20cm/8inches], full rose-coloured cloth sans dust jacket, pp. xv, 400, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones. The spine is nicely sunned Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional snapshots.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. pp.xv, 400 pages, with 3 plates, a very good hardback in a very good dust-jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Red Cloth. Near Fine Book/Very Good Dustjacket. First Edition. 400 pp. A bright clean copy. Attractive bookplate on pastedown. [528].

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Price NOT clipped, DJ nicely in archival wraps. Stated first edition. DJ and page edges with foxing; previous owner's inscription inside. Ref. A143a of Shifreen & Jackson bibliography.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine, jacket clipped, installed in plastic archival wrap, p.o, name on blank ffep else clean, light exterior wear and spotting to fore-edge. Clean square copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 5th or later Edition. Reprint. Tall 8vo., gilt-stamped black paper boards in white/olive/black unclipped dustwrapper with ads and the statement "Sale of This Book is Limited to Adults" on rear panel, illustrations throughout, 725pp. Fine with normal browning to page extremities in nearly very good dustwrapper with two short closed tears and gentle-age-related wear with some slight darkening to extremities. A handsome copy of an often overlooked book providing a generous collection of work published by the Olympia Press of Paris, in their distinguished TRAVELLER'S COMPANION SERIES, more familiar to readers in Europe than in North America. Note : Please contact Sellers & Newel to specify shipping options and minimize costs.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Orange cloth, lettered in gilt. Former owner's book plate mounted inside front cover, address stamp to rear flyleaf, otherwise just a hint of rubbing to extremities, essentially as issued. Dust jacket Near Fine with mild tanning and minor surface rubbing, now in mylar. xvi,[4],400 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Good hardcover with good dust jacket. Some jacket wear, some discoloring to endpapers.

dj. First Edition. First Edition, 1963, E.P. Dutton, owner signature, Very Good book in a Very Good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stated first edition. Octavo. 400 pp. Very good in like jacket. Orange cloth with gold titling to front board and spine. Square and tight binding. Text is bright and free of any annotations. Foxspots to pastedowns, page 400, and back endpapers. Jacket is vibrant and unclipped. There is a small chip to the upper front cover edge, several short tears and scattered foxspots (the foxspots are on the inside of the jacket and less visible from the front). Jacket is now protected in an archival grade Brodart wrap. A tight copy overall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1963 Dutton hard cover - stated First Edition - 1st printing - minor wear to dust jacket (now in mylar cover) some staining to page edge - otherwise cover and binding fine contents clean - enjoy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American edition with cancel title page. 168pp. Illustrated. Pages lightly age-toned, spine with a few tiny spots, boards with modest edgewear, very good in a price-clipped about very good dust jacket with a small round tear on the spine (affecting the title), tanning, an ink mark on the front flap and small chips and tears along the edges. Prints an essay on Paul Valêry by Andrê Gide; additional contributions by Louis MacNiece, William Sansom, George Seferis, Rose Macaulay, V.S. Pritchett, Osbert Sitwell, Edith Sitwell, Lawrence Durrell and more.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 301-356pp. Perfect bound paper wraps. Slight tanning to the wraps, crease to corner and miniscule chip, about near fine. Poetry anthology with contributions from Lawrence Durrell ("Deus Loci"), Rachel Annand Taylor, Wilfrid Gibson, R.H. Mottram, Wilfred Rowland Childe, Stanley Snaith, D'Arcy Cresswell, Wrenne Jarman, Geoffrey Johnson, Gawsworth, Hugh Gordon Porteus, Phoebe Hesketh, John Heath-Stubbs, David Marcus, George Moor, Arthur Caddick, James Brockway, Theodore Roscoe, Lionel Johnson, and Marvin Magalaner. …

Condition: Good. E.P. Dutton & Co. New York 1963 red cloth boards are moderately stained. spine slightly age toned. text block crisp.

cloth, dust jacket. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 400 pages. First edition (Thomas and Brigham 37). According to Thomas and Brigham, publication of the American edition preceded the British by onl a few weeks. Table of contents, introduction by the editor, chronologies of the lives of Durrell and Miller, index with explanatory notes. Includes correspondence from 1935 to 1959. Dust jacket lightly soiled. Durrell, Lawrence (illustrator).…

dj. First Edition. First Edition. Price-clipped. Very Good book in a Very Good dust jacket.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Book condition is Very Good; with a Very Good price clipped dust jacket. Minor rubbing and weak foxing to jacket. A few short tears to jacket edges. Text is clean and unmarked. First Edition is stated. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Slight sticker scar on front pastedown (minor) else about fine in bright, unclipped near fine dustjacket (mylar protected). Edited, with an introduction by George Wickes.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Cloth, dj. First Edition (stated). 400 pp. The unclipped dj. has slight wear at corners, some uneven sunning (the authors' names has faded noticeably, while the other text on the spine is much less affected). Internals very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Faber & Faber, London, 1963. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine neat ownership inscription on front end paper. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine, price clipped by Faber and new price (£2.75) added. 1st UK edition, 1st Printing.…

Softcover, stapled. Condition: Very Good to Near Fine. First Edition. First Edition. Octavo, stapled softcover in original red wrappers, hand silk-screened, black and white plates throughout, including a fold-out photo set. Issue #9 of Circle Magazine, a literary and art journal published in Berkeley, CA from 1944-1948 for a total of 10 issues; cover art by Palestinian artist Bezalel Schatz, one of four different variants. Very Good to Near Fine, light shelf wear and fading. Bezalel Schatz (illustrator).…

First edition. Hardcover. Edges mildly foxed, bookseller's label on the bottom hinge corner of the fly-leaf, otherwise very good in very good price-clipped dustjacket with some small professionally closed tears. An exuberant 20 year correspondence between two quite differenct writers of genius.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First printing. A near-fine copy in a fine jacket. A clean copy with price ($12.50) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. An attractive copy, of erotic selections from John Cleland, Jean Genet, Philip O'Connor, Henry Miller, Chester Himes, Beardsley & Glassco, Lawrence Durrell, William Burroughs, Maxwell Kenton, Paul Ableman, Gregory Corso, George Bataille, James Sherwood, J.P. Donleavy, Akbar Del Piombo, Roger Casement, Pauline Reage, C.H. Ford, P. Tyler, Marquis de Sade, Raymond Queneau, Samuel Beckett, and more. Anthologies. …

First edition (per publisher's statement upon copyright page) INSCRIBED, SIGNED, AND DATED BY AUTHOR. 359, [2] pages. Hardcover: H 21.5cm x L 14.75cm. Red dust jacket rubbed with some nicking and short tears at edges; bottom corner of front flap is price-clipped. Blue cloth. Deckle fore-edge; slight soiling to text block's bottom edge corner abutting fore-edge heel. Acquired from the estate of novelist Nancy Hallinan with her scattered ink and pencil underlining and a few margin notes amongst text. Durrell's boldly written five-line ink inscription surrounded by his additional ink border lines all on half-title page: "Inscribed | for Nancy | by | Lawrence Durrell | April [?]" (with the concluding year being illegible).…

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. Vol.1, No.5 - the fifth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu, with a cover design by John R. Biggs. ***Very good in the original thin cream, black and ochre-yellow printed stapled covers. Some marks to the covers commensurate with age and handling, particularly on the front cover. Top corners of pages quite creased, and bottom corners of pages slightly creased. Interior pages clean - just a pencil annotation to p.153 - could be rubbed out if so wished (please see scans). Staples rusted as is often the case. No tears. Spine tight. ***36 pages (plus adverts on the inside covers). ***248mm x 185mm. ***Contents: Fifth Letter by Tambimuttu, dated 24.ii.1941; Stephen Spender: A Childhood; G. S. Fraser: A Letter to Anne Ridler: Alan Rook: The Retreat; Alun Lewis: Christmas Holiday, Easter in Christmas, The Public Gardens; George Barker: Six Poems in America: To My Mother; To My Brother; To David Gill; To T. S. Eliot; To Stephen Spender; To C.B.; Desmond Hawkins: This Garden; Lawrence Durrell, [Corfu 1936]: Daphnis and Chloe; J. F. Hendry: From "4 Seasons of War"; J. F. Hendry: The Constant North; Paul Eluard: "Yesterday's Conquerors Shall Perish"; Tom Scott: Sea-Dirge; George Scurfield: Song; Herbert Corby: Sonnet, August 1940; John Waller: Nigel, At Burlington House; Tom Scott: Poem in Time of Search; G. S. Fraser: Poem for M. G.; David Gascoyne: The Moths; Alan Rook: London, 1940; David Gascoyne: Nada; Reviews; Correspondence. ***Vol. 1. No. 5 - the fifth issue of the original first series of this renowned poetry magazine, edited by Tambimuttu, published during the early years of the Second World War. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, and the publications of Poetry London. ***The wartime issues of Poetry (London) magazine are now quite scarce in any condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. John R. Biggs (Cover design) (illustrator).…

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 400 p.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Foxing on both flaps and pastedowns.

Condition: VG. Berkeley, California. 1946 first edition. Literary journal. Stiff wraps. royal octavo. Issue appeared with 4 variations in cover - this cover has a red fetus in utero , mother outlined in blue, surrounded by swirls of pale green with title in black. Cover hand-printed by Bezalel Schatz. Eight pages of poems by Lawrence Durrell, "Rimbaud Opus part Two" by Miller; four poems by Selwyn Schwartz, special foldout photography plate section "Four Experimental Nudes" by Jim Fitzsimmons. VG+. just slight oning on cover. no owner marks.…