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Durrell, Lawrence. A Private Country. Faber and Faber, London, 1943.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Description: 79 pgs., 8vo. The 2nd printing, in England. An ex-library copy with w-d stamped bookplate, perforated ownership on the title page, and tear from pocket removal. Fair to poor copy, with library damages.
Seller: Old Book Surfer, Cambridge, NY, U.S.A.
Lawrence Durrell. A Private Country. Faber and Faber, 1943.
Price: US$19.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1943. Faber and Faber. Hardcover. GOOD First Edition. Gold text on brown spine. Clean inside. Deckled page edges. No dust jacket. Edgewear. 9x6.
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
DURRELL, Lawrence. A Private Country: Poems. Faber & Faber Ltd., London, 1943.
Price: US$19.32 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Collection of poems, some of which were originally published in literary magazines/periodicals. First Edn., 1943; full grey cloth; titling blocked in gilt (slightly dulled) to spine; fore/bottom edges uncut; 79pp. Slightly foxed spine lightly crushed at tail, but complete/robust; boards very slightly sunned at edges, but robust/crisp; text very fresh, pages crisp and very clean/bright. No inscriptions. Lightweight item, hence overseas customers will have SHIPPING CHARGES REDUCED subsequent to ordering. VG- PRICE INCUDES UK POSTAGE & PACKING.
Seller: Robert Wright, trading as 'The Bookman', Norwich, United Kingdom
Durrell, Lawrence. Private Country. Faber & Faber, London, 1943.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. 79 pp. cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, worn spine, owner inscriptions, else overall very good copy. (87734).
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Durrell, Lawrence. A Private Company. Faber & Faber, London, 1943.
Price: US$32.14 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Quarto (printer's signatures each four leaves). Printed on laid paper with horizontal, wire watermarks; fore and bottom edges uncut. Previous owner's signature on the front free endpaper (n.b. not signed by the author). Natural ageing of the covers; no foxing. A very nice copy of this early work of the author. Weysprings Books is a professional member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA).
Seller: Weysprings Books, IOBA, PBFA, HINDHEAD, United Kingdom
DURRELL Lawrence.. A PRIVATE COUNTRY. Poems.. Faber and Faber, London, 1943.
Price: US$38.67 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Prima edizione. Cm.22,3x14. Pg.80. Legatura in tela priva di sovracoperta. Edizione originale della prima raccolta di liriche di Lawrence Durrell (Jalandhar, 27 febbraio 1912 ? Sommières, 7 novembre 1990). 150 gr.
Seller: studio bibliografico pera s.a.s., LUCCA, Italy
DURRELL, Lawrence.. A Private Country. (Poems).. London, Faber & Faber 1943., 1943.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Hardcover. Fine in good price-clipped dustjacket with some small professionally restored chips along the top edge (not affecting any lettering), spine a little darkened, red lettering still very clear. Durrell's first book of poetry published by a major firm (Faber) after a handful of small press efforts (beginning in 1931).
Seller: Larsen Books, Exeter, NSW, Australia
DURRELL, Lawrence. A Private Country Poems by Lawrence Durrell. London, Faber, 1943, 1943.
Price: US$70.21 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 80 pages, original boards in dustwrapper (edgeworn with a few closed tears), neat ink name of Bruce Grant on flyleaf, untrimmed handmade paper, a very good copy. First edition
Seller: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australia
Price: US$74.72 + shipping
Description: 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original grey cloth, gilt back, uncut, covers very faintly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. Save for two small privately printed pamphlets, this is Durrell's debut as a poet and author. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Durrell, Lawrence. A PRIVATE COUNTRY. Faber & Faber, London, 1943.
Price: US$137.50 + shipping
Description: Gray cloth in printed dust jacket. 8vo. 79 pp. An early and first substantial volume of poems marvelously printed at the University Press, Glasgow, on heavy laid blue-gray paper. The spine a bit toned, cloth lightly soiled in a spine toned jacket missing a small section at crown and back panel. Not price-clipped, and otherwise clean and bright and very good overall.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Durrell Lawrence. A PRIVATE COUNTRY. Poems by Lawrence Durrell. London Faber and Faber 1943, 1943.
Price: US$247.50 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo, original pale grey cloth, gilt lettered on spine. 79. A very good copy with some very mild sunning to the spine. Although it was preceded by two small pamphlets, Durrell considered this his poetic debut.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Durrell, Lawrence. A PRIVATE COUNTRY. Signed. Faber and Faber, London, 1943.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed. First Edition of Lawrence Durrell's first professionally published poetry collection, with the neat ownership signature of long-time Poetry Editor at the New Yorker magazine, Howard Moss to the front free endpaper. A better than very good copy in gray cloth, gilt titles, spine sunned, without the dustwrapper. 8vo. 79 pp. [From a comprehensive TBCL Durrell collection of first editions in superb condition].
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Durrell, Lawrence.. A Private Country. Signed First Edition.. London: Faber & Faber., 1943.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 79 pp., Grey Gilt Cloth, Very Good. Text block letterpress on laid deckled rag. No DJ. Inked note inside cover appears to be in Durrell's hand "Believed Loves (?), Haifa, Spring 1942." (Brigham, p. 3)Provenance: Collection of Chiefly First Editions by Lawrence Durrell, most signed presentation copies, inscribed to his friend Jeremy Mallinson. Mallinson, was Gerald Durrell's right-hand man from the early days of the Jersey Zoo (now Durrell Wildlife Park).
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.