Introduction Lawrence Durrell (43 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good-. Half-title page is lightly foxed. Slight bumping to some lower outer corners.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The Unexpurgated 1928 Orioli Edition. 360 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Lightly creased spine.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Copyright © 1983. 420 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear and crisp pages. Occassional pen markings on text.

Third printing Very close to fine pictorial stiff wraps with excellent spine and crisp text throughout. Another author's name and date neatly to the first page which affects none of the text. We notice a few pages with subtle lining.

Later printing Fine and very bright stiff wraps with excellent square spine and crisp text throughout. Never read. A beautiful copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Very good in a good (only), priceclipped dustjacket with light edgewear and sunned spine. No markings. (box 69). Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Stated First Edition. Text/NEW & Bright. Author signed to title page. Softcover/VG; strong & sound w/trace edge & shelf wear, and soil spot & book shop label to lower back. Light brown spotting (acidic paper reaction) to fEP & rEP, and text edges. PO label to front cover verso. Introduction by Gerald Durrell, and Forward by H.R.H. Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh. A memoir and narrative of minding owls in distress by Lawrence McKeever, who with his wife Kay, founded the The Owl Foundation, a Canadian charitable organization dedicated to rehabilitation of injured or ophaned wild Canadian owls This is the story of how the McKeevers began their owl rehabilitation centre. In the spring of 1986 bird-watchers, inear Long-Point, on Lake Erie, found a Great Horned Owl that had been killed by a car; pitiful "beeping" in nearby woods led them to an owlet about four weeks old - barely fledged, feeble, and desperately emaciated. This baby owl was brought Kay and Lawrence McKeever who first nutured it their house before placing it in the care their "Niska" owls, a pair of Great Horned who were proven wonderful foster parents. When the owlet was about 6 months old the McKeevers moved it to a release training cage so it could practise catching mice "on the hoof" before releasing it to the woods, where it belonged. What followed was the McKeevers would receive anywhere from six to fifteen baby Great Horned Owls every spring, and weere able to return almost all to the wild. A magical tale of humans living well beside other living beings. Author Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Paul Hogarth (watercolors) (illustrator). 1st Edition. London: Michael Joseph, 1988. 1st edition, F/F. Book and dust jacket have very little wear. Nearly 150 beautiful watercolors of the entire Mediterranean coast, map end-papers. Bibliographies of Durrell and Hogarth, Gazetteer. Nice copy, great gift, 159 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American Edition. 1938 copyright date overprinted on copyright page. Stated first edition. VG+, tight, clean, no markings or bookplates in good dj with narrow internal chip (wedge) out near bottom of spine and some tears and creasing at top of spine. Also small snag with paper loss along rear flap edge and some additional short tears, minor stains and dust soiling/rubbing. Not price-clipped. (Jacket price $4.95).

First English Edition. Near Fine book in a Very Good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Stated First edition. Light green cloth with spine titles in gilt. Octavo. xiv,223 pages. Near fine copy in an unclipped dust jacket with a little edgewear. Jacket is in a mylar protector. All books shipped in boxes.

Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Condition: Near Fine Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine Plus. Paul Hogarth (illustrator). First Edition. Large oblong, 11 1/2" x 10 1/2", bound in yellow cloth boards with black lettering on spine. There is a thin line of adhesive remnants about an inch long at the top of the gutter of the front endpaper; otherwise the book is clean, unmarked and tightly bound. The dust jacket is not clipped and has traces of wear at bottom tips and spine ends. An evocation of the Mediterranean by text and colour illustrations. 159 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. With owner's signature, otherwise like new in a bright, practically perfect jacket with original $6.50 price. An anthology of the best of Henry Miller edited by Lawrence Durrell. Jacket has Miller's portrait on front panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardback; light foxing to edge of pages, otherwise good in faded dustjacket. ; A selection of poetry first published in Cairo in 1943, with additional material. Maps; +xxxivpp. ; 254 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Reprint.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Printing of the Dutton editions. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve has evidence of shelf handling with a small loss on the bottom of the spine. Prelude to Justine. First published in 1938 by the Obelisk Press. The novel shows several surrealist influences, and these may be in part related to materials from the 1936 London International Surrealist Exhibition, about which Henry Miller was sending Durrell materials from Herbert Read. In reviewing it in The Observer, Philip Toynbee wrote, 'This is a wild, passionate, brilliantly gaudy and flamboyant extravaganza; it is intrinsically and essentially, the book of a young man - Durrell was 24 when he wrote it - richly obscene, energetically morbid, very often very funny indeed, self-pitying, but, above all, stylistically and verbally inventive as no other young man's novel of the period was even attempting to be.' Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. FitzClarence (Jacket design) (illustrator). First UK Edition. First impression of the first UK edition, published in the UK in 1960. Edited and with an introduction by Lawrence Durrell. There wasn't an equivalent American edition of this collection. ***Near fine in navy-blue cloth-covered boards with silver titles to the spine. Boards clean and unmarked. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. Corners sharp. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally also near fine with just light tanning to the paper. There is a bookplate on the front pastedown 'Ex Libris - Alan Anderson' - Alan was the founder of Tragara Press - the small press based in Edinburgh which published from 1954 onwards. Also a pencilled comment which could be erased 'From the library of Alan Anderson, founder of Tragara Press'. Spine tight. Pages clean. ***In a very good red, black and yellow illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 30s net. The dustwrapper is complete, but has some marks and creasing commensurate with age and handling (please see scans). Head and tail of spine slightly creased. No serious creases, chips or tears. The red colour on the spine is sun-faded. ***397 pages including Introduction, Preface, Chronology and Bibliography. 220mm x 145mm. ***Contents: Introduction by Lawrence Durrell, Author's Preface, PLACES - The 14th Ward, Paris and Its Suburbs, Dijon, Epidaurus and Mycenae, The Ghetto (N.Y.), Big Sur Invocation. STORIES - Picodiribibi, Reunion in Brooklyn, Max, Goldilocks, Automotive Passacaglia, Berthe. LITERARY ESSAYS - The Universe of Death, Of Art and the Future, Reflections on Writing, The Wisdom of the Heart, Tribute to France. PORTRAITS - Un Etre Etoilique, Hans Reichel, Alfred Perles, Blaise Cendrars. THE MAN HIMSELF - A Commonplace Book of Aphorisms and Ideas. APPENDIX - Defense of the Freedom to Read, Chronology, Bibliography. ***'In 1958, to the surprise of those people who had known of him only as the author of banned books, Henry Miler was elected to the American Institute of Arts and Letters. At that time he was welcomed by his fellow writers as "the veteran author of many books whose originality and richness of technique are matched by the variety and daring of his subject matter. His boldness of approach and his intense curiosity concerning man and nature are unequalled in the prose literature of our time." ***The material which has been selected by Lawrence Durrell for this representative anthology traces the main line and principal themes of the "single, endless autobiography" which is Henry Miller's life work. It includes extracts from a dozen different books including several which are still banned in England: Tropic of Cancer, Black Spring, Sexus and Plexus.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper). ***First impression of the first UK edition in nice collectable condition. An anthology tracing the principal themes of Henry Miller's life work, divided into sections according to the titles; 'Places', 'Stories', 'Literary Essays' and 'Portraits'. Miller contributes a commentary on each essay fitting it into context of his life story. Also includes a chronology of Miller's life, a bibliography and part of an opoen letter protesting the ban of 'Sexus'. Uncommon in this condition now. ***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.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Brassai (illustrator). 8vo. 80 pp. browned foredges with faint marginal browning throughout, ex libris bookplate to front pastedown otherwise good plus in original light blue cloth with black titles, sun faded top edge, minor marks, good in original unclipped dustwrapper, browned and chipped with small loss rear cover, good Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. - First Edition - Signed by the Durrell, Selwyn, Waller & Tambimuttu - No. 43 of the first 100 numbered copies - Edges of covers lightly rubbed - Spine slightly cocked - Edges of text block heavily foxed and marked - Some internal foxing - Errata slip inside - Dustwrapper price-clipped and slightly rubbed and faded w/ some minor foxing and corners and spine head bumped - Book ow/ solid, clean and bright in untorn wrapper - xxxiv/254 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Scarce. Green boards with gilt lettering along the spine. The book is 288 pages in length, with a number of black-and-white text figures and plans. This copy is in fine condition, inside and out. There is a signature of the previous owner. Photographs are available.

Wrappers. Wrappers a little faded and foxed, otherwise a very nice copy.

Green Paper Covered Boards. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. photofrontis, (viii), 54pp. 50 copies only; this one out of series & unnumbered. Inscribed by Orend for the friend who paid his one-way fare to Paris where he was eventually to establish the Alyscamps Press. Dust jacket minutely handled. Signed by Editor / Publisher. Book.

8vo. pp 43. Original publisher's illustrated blue covers, lettered white. Copiously illustrated in colour throughout. Signed presentation from the artist to Marcelle Quinton on the verso title page, "For Marcelle, with love from Barbara, May 2011." Introduction by Lawrence Durrell. Text in French. Very good plus.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. This is the "cork" edition, one of 1399 copies, with pictorail DJ. Multi-colored handmade paper, with sheets laid-in announcing awards the book won at the TDC's Awards Show in NYC. This copy has a library stamp on title page and library labels inside. In a Very Good slipcase.

Printer Wrapper. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. UNCORRECTED PAGE PROOF. Fine in glossy pictorial printed wrappers.

Patterned cloth, spine gilt. First Edition. Fine copy in slightly soiled and edgeworn dust-wrapper, spine panel a touch faded. Review Copy, with the publisher's review slip loosely inserted Includes Peake's poem 'Great Hulk Down the Astonished Waters Drifting.'.

Wraps. Condition: Good. Second printing. 8vo, 397 pp. Inscribed and signed by author. From the collection of Pierre Sicari, HM's firend and barber, and an important Miller collector. "For Pierre-- who needs no Introduction to my work! Henry Miller, 27/1/72." Wrappers rubbed and edgeworn with light scuffing to spine edges and just a bit of foxing to back cover and edges; top edge dusty, page edges tanned.

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. HBDJ, 1959, 1st edition, DJ light rub, wear , light FoX & tiny chips Extremities, VG+/VG+, Interior nice tight clean light Wear FoX, 182 pgs, Grey cloth cover lettered Gold Gilt Spine.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Limited to 100 numbered copies. Signed by Durrell, Victor Selwyn, John Waller, & Tambimuttu. Book measures 24x16.5.cm. xxxiv,254pp. Bound in original publishers brown hardcover, with gilt title lettering. Slight lean on spine. Binding in very good clean firm condition. Dust jacket rubbed on edges. Jacket in very good clean condition. Internally, pages clean. A very nice clean copy. Size: 8vo. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Thus. This is a fine, as new, hardcover copy of the Loujon Cork edition of 1399 copies, fine Picasso DW, in a fine slip case. Photos on request.