The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell, First Edition (73 results)

Paperback. first PB. GC-063, very good -fine, , reading crease (HISTORICAL NOVEL), paperback,

Paperback. first PB. GC-099, almost near fine, (HISTORICAL NOVEL), paperback,

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover Good EP Dutton, copyright 1958, 1959 first edition (stated), with BMOC notice and $395 price on dust jacket Cover shows minor wear Pages clean Binding tight Dust jacket shows edgewear, notably to corners and spine ends.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good in a Good price-clipped dust jacket. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear. Dust Jacket is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve has toning to white of rear panel. 20.5 cm.; 8.25 inches tall; 318 pages. First Edition, First Printing, American. Mountolive is a novel of vertiginous disclosures, in which the betrayer and the betrayed share secret alliances and an adulterous marriage turns out to be a vehicle for the explosive passions of the modern Middle East. Very Good in a Good Dust Jacket.

Paperback. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Special order item direct from the distributor.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Near fine first American edition, one-volume. Rose cloth boards, gold lettering. Slight wear to lettering and decoration at spine. Lacking jacket. Originally published as four separate novels: Justine in 1957, Balthazar in 1958, Mountolive in 1958, Clea in 1960. 884 pages. M05659.

Paperback. First Thus. Mass-market paperbacks in 16mo. 4.25 x 6.375 in. 257; 247; 292; 280 pp. + adverts. Complete set of Durrell's tetralogy. First Giant Cardinal Edition, First Printings. Pictorial wrappers. No. 70 of Modern Library's list of 100 Best English-language Novels of the Twentieth Century. Very good. Justine good only, with mild waterstain to fore-edge & first two pages separating. Moderate edgewear and light toning to all volumes. Bindings generally tight & square otherwise.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good binding. Octavo. 884 pp. First American one-volume edition. As issued, in publisher's salmon cloth with title in gold on the spine; lacking the dust jacket. Binding is lightly rubbed at the spine and edges; generally it presents well; some foxing to the endpapers and some minor and limited staining to the bottom edge of the first blank; contents are clean. A nice edition of this modern classic.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Folio Society edition, second printing, 2010 (first printing of this edition was 2009). No jacket as issued. With original slipcase. Illustrated. Brown slipcase is near fine with the odd very small mark, odd minor scratch and the odd minor bump to edges. Boards are near fine with light crease to spine (book has been read). Pages are clean and the binding is tight. No internal faults. A nice copy. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.

First ed thus in the BCA collected edition. DJ is is in good condition with slight wear on all edges. Not price clipped. Rust boards with gilt lettering to spine. In very good condition.

1st ed. thus hardback with dust jacket Nice copy octavo 884pp., Neat ownership signature o/w nice copy in like unclipped dust jacket.

First edition. 8vo. 884 pp. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, good copy. (87713).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Folio Society edition, first printing, 2009. First thus. No jacket as issued. With original slipcase. Illustrated. Brown slipcase is near fine with the odd very small mark, odd minor scratch and the odd minor bump to edges. Boards are fine with no faults. Pages are clean and the binding is tight. No internal faults. A nice copy. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Folio Society edition, first printing, 2009. First thus. No jacket as issued. With original slipcase. Illustrated. Brown slipcase is near fine with the odd very small mark, odd minor scratch and the odd minor bump to edges. Boards are fine with no faults. Pages are clean and the binding is tight. No internal faults. A nice copy. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First American Edition. Very good copy, lacking the original dustjacket but in an attractive, very fine facsimile (so stated) dustjacket (mylar-protected). 'First Edition' is stated on copyright page.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Near Fine hardcover in a Very Good dj (approx. 1/2" wide x 1" long chip missing to lower left corner of front dj panel; slight rubbing/chipping to dj spinal extremities and to dj corners). First Edition, First Printing of the One-Volume Edition. 4 books in one volume: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea. 884pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Dustjacket. First American Edition. 884 Pp. Four Volumes In One, With Revisions To Three Volumes. Red Cloth Stamped In Blue. First American Issue, Using Sheets Printed In Great Britain, Of This 1962 Corrected And Slightly Revised Edition, With A New Preface By The Author. Book Would Be Near Fine, Bright, But Bumping And Faint Dampstaining To Leaves Around Upper Corner Of Page Block Centered Around Pp 300 And Declining In Both Directions. No Marks. Dj With Wear And Also Small Losses To Corners.

Paperback. Condition: very good. First paperback edition (Presumed). Yellow, green, blue and red small octavo volumes; 1100p. "The Alexandria Quartet series by British author Lawrence Durrell. Set in Alexandria, Egypt, around World War II, the four novels tell essentially the same story from different points of view and come to a conclusion in Clea. Mountolive is the only third person narrative in the series, and it is also the most overtly political."-Wikipedia. // Fiction Love stories. Romance fiction. Alexandria (Egypt) -- Fiction. All four volumes in very good condition overall; pages clean, binding tight; very minor edgewear. Bright colors on covers; small paint-mark on cover of Justine, very minor chipping on small section of Mountolive spine.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1962. First Omnibus Edition. Octavo; 884pp. Printed dust jacket with $10.00 price intact; book in red cloth with gilt lettering and blue title square to spine. Jacket shows a few shallow tears along edges, with a 1.5" crease at bottom front, wear to corners and spine ends, and some general toning and smudging, mostly to white back panel. Boards are clean with some fading along edges. Spine slightly cocked. Endpapers foxed. Opens easily between a few gatherings, but binding is sound. Pages unmarked. First omnibus edition of Durrell's Quartet, consisting of the novels Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, and Clea.

First edition in collected form. Faber & Faber, London. 1969. Hardback with dust-wrapper. 884 pages. Dust-wrapper has fine wrinking to lamination and scratch to rear panel; extremities of cloth sl. rubbed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of the Faber collection of four novels. Bears signature and date (1970) of previous owner on FEP. Otherwise unmarked and it excellent clean condition. Boards and DJ have v. minor corner scuffs. DJ is unclipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hard buond in dust jacket.Jacket shows minor edge wear and some age toning to rear, otherwise very good. First " single volume" edition. Contains: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, and Clea.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First American Editions Hardcovers:- Mountolive -a First Printing of the First American Edition.,1959.;-Clea -a 5th printing in June,1960; Balthazar -a 6th printing in September,1960.; Clea-5th printing ,June,1960. Mountolive is bound in black cloth with corners slightly rolled and worn; heel of spine is softened. Clea and Balthazar bound in black cloth have the slightest touch of shelf wear and for Balthazar-the top and fore-edges have a small discoloration where they meet; Justine is bound in burnt orange buckram. All bindings are square and firm. The pages are clean, smooth and unmarked in all four volumes. 338 pp,;287pp.;250 pp.;253pp. The sturdy slip case is in very good condition with rubbing wear on the top and bottom panels and light bumping of all corners. The left corner of the top panel has a .75 inch crack. The slipcase is completely intact and holds up/presents well.Please see all Images.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Complete in one volume. First edition thus. Very good in a very good (moderate edge wear and age toning) dust jacket.; 884 pages.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. First one-volume edition. Jacket has heavy tanning, chipping, and tearing with tape repairs to the inside of jacket, some loss. Some light edgewear to boards and spine ends, front hinge a little strained, owner details to ffep, some foxing to endpapers, however, contents clean and firm. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Fat 8vo. The Alexandria Quartet in one vol., translated into Swedish as Alexandria Kvartetten (presentation and association copy signed by Durrell). pp 191 + 183 + 254 + 221 for the 4 books. Top edge gilt, VG + in VG d.j. (wear and tiny chips to extremities in places, two short tears and minor creases near extremities). Presentation copy signed by Durrell to front blank, 'Peter and Joan Bird from Larry Durrell, Sommires 1984'. Sommires, in the Languedoc in the south of France, was Durrell's home from 1966 to 1990. He is buried there. An important association copy: Group Captain Peter and Joan Bird were friends of Durrell's for over twenty years. Peter Drury Bird (1920-2014), an affable David Niven look-alike, was one of the last surviving Lancaster pilots who bombed Nazi-occupied Europe. After the war he took part in the Berlin airlift, and in 1961 became Britain's defence attach in Scandinavia, which no doubt explains why Durrell presented this Swedish edition to him. In 1966, two years after first meeting him, the Birds visited Lawrence Durrell at Corfu. Here Durrell became seriously attracted to Joan Bird (ne Coury, 1918-2011), who was described as 'a tall, striking woman with all the graces of a diplomatic wife coupled with a dramatic intensity of manner' (Ian S. MacNiven, 'Lawrence Durrell: A Biography'.) Durrell met the Birds again in Paris a year later. Joan's refusal to have a child with him resulted in a break to their friendship for many years. They were finally reconciled in 1975. Signedes.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A first four in one volume edition of the Alexandria Quarter by Lawrence Durrell. A first edition of this one volume edition.The Alexandria Quartet is a collection of four novels by Lawrence Durrell, that present perspectives of characters in Alexandria before and during the Second World War, being the novels Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive and Clea.Lawrence Durrell was a British novelist, poet, dramatist and travel writer.In the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart indeed with very light bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. In the original unclipped dust wrapper which is very smart with some fading to the spine and chipping to the head of the spine. Very Good Indeed. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Covers and protected jacket in very good shape, sliver missing at upper left corner in front and wear on the dj visitble at top and bottom, a small closed tear at the top middle in front, some darkening near the spine on the back, and other edge wear, price of $10.00 intact, binding straight, pages clean and unmarked. First edition, first printing, rare and collectible. All four books of the quartet in one volume.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Omnibus Edition. A Fine copy in rose-red linen cloth covered boards, in white, black and red dustwrapper, price-clipped. Lengthy (but charming) inscription to half-title page, else clean and unmarked. 884pp. Q07217.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Very Good in a Near Fine jacket, clipped, faintly toned and rubbed. Red buckram, rubbed at the bottom edge, pushed at the head and foot of the spine. Square, bound with some reading wear, former owner's signature inside the front board, clean otherwise. The first complete one-volume edition that brings together Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, and Clea. The Modern Library named the quartet as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.