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Durrell, Lawrence. Blue thirst. Capra Press, Santa Barbara, California, 1975.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Nice clean unmarked copy.
Seller: The Book Shelf, Salem, OR, U.S.A.
Lawrence Durrell. Blue Thirst. Capra Press, Santa Barbara, California, 1975.
Price: US$16.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: A pair of lectures from one of the twentieth century’s most mesmerizing speakers Lawrence Durrell was in his early twenties when, tired of the stiffness of London life, he took his family to live in Corfu. Interwar Greece, whose hard beds and mosquito swarms Durrell documented so tenderly in Prospero’s Cell, was no more. In the first of this pair of lectures, given during a 1970s visit to California, Durrell recalls those days, talking of family, poetry, and the joy of the islands as no other writer can. The two lectures were delivered at Caltech and at Claremont College. Lawrence George Durrell (1912-1990) was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer. He was the eldest brother of naturalist and writer Gerald Durrell. Born in India to British colonial parents, he was sent to England at the age of eleven for his education. He did not like formal education, but started writing poetry at age 15. His first book was published in 1935, when he was 23. In March 1935 he and his mother and younger siblings moved to the island of Corfu. Durrell spent many years thereafter living around the world.
Seller: Trecaravelle.it, Rome, RM, Italy
DURRELL, Lawrence. BLUE THIRST. Capra Press, Santa Barbara, CA, 1975.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 56. Illustrated with photographs. Paper wraps. A nice copy. Two lectures Durrell delivered at Caltech and at Claremont College.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Durrell, Lawrence. Blue Thirst. Capra Press, Santa Barbara, CA, 1975.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. 56 pp. Illustrations. Softcover, decorative wraps, good condition. (95833).
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Durrell, Lawrence. BLUE THIRST. Capra Press, Santa Barbara, CA, 1975.
Price: US$33.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: In 1975, Durrell gave a pair of impromptu lectures at Cal Tech and Claremont College in California, reminiscing about Greece as a young writer and later as a diplomat; the lectures became the bases for this book; text illustrated with photos; bookseller's sticker (small green dot) in lower corner of back cover. Wrappers and text clean and bright. An exceptionally nice copy.
Seller: H. W. Gumaer, Bookseller, Canandaigua, NY, U.S.A.
Durrell, Lawrence.. Blue Thirst.. Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1975., 1975.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo. 56pp. No. 238 of 250 numbered and signed copies. Boards. Glassine wrapper. Illustrated.
Seller: Sam Gatteno Books, Grosse Pointe, MI, U.S.A.
Durrell, Lawrence. Blue Thirst. Capra Press, Santa Barbara, CA, 1975.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited Edition of 250 copies, of which this is no. 220. Signed by the author on the limitations page. Very Good in a clear acetate dust jacket. Faint yellowing (not dampstaining) at/near tail of spine. Acetate jacket has a couple of chips and a one-inch tear along top edge.
Seller: Brazos Bend Books, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Durrell, Lawrence.. Blue Thirst.. Capra Press, Santa Barbara, 1975.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited Edition. #22/250 SIGNED copies bound in pale blue paper over midnight blue cloth covered boards, in publisher's clear unprinted acetate dustwrapper. Fine. 56pp. with black and white photographic illustrations. Q15401
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.