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Durrell, Lawrence. White Eagles Over Serbia. Faber & Faber, UK, 1962.
Price: US$7.35 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Paperback. 200 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Faber & Faber, UK, 1962. *** CONDITION: This book is in good condition. More specifically: Covers have light creasing. Edges of covers have moderate wear. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are lightly tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Writing in the style of John Buchan and John le Carre, the author of Alexandria Quartet follows a British secret service agent as he investigates the brutal murder of a fellow agent in the Balkans. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Crime; Inventory No: 23090205.
Seller: Manyhills Books, Traralgon, VIC, Australia
Durrell, Lawrence. The Alexandria Quartet: Justine Balthazar Mountolive Clea. Faber & Faber, 1962.
Price: US$18.44 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Price: US$21.72 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 884 pages. The dust jacket has a bit of wear, with heavy creasing, tanning, scuffs and some water damage stains. The page edges are moderately foxed and tanned, as are the first and last few pages.The title page has begun to seperate slightly from the binding. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.
Seller: Goulds Book Arcade, Sydney, Newtown, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Lawrence Durrell. The Alexandria Quartet. Faber & Faber, 1962.
Price: US$32.68 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.75
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$36.86 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Durrell, Lawrence. The Alexandria Quartet in One Volume. Faber and Faber, 1962.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Pages clean and tight. Boards have minor edge wear. DJ has wear at all folds.
Seller: Unique Books, Lexington, KY, U.S.A.
DURRELL, Lawrence. THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET. Faber and Faber, London, 1962.
Price: US$56.21 + shipping
Description: Portada, 884 p. - Primera vez en un solo tomo. Corregido por el autor.
Seller: Librería Llera Pacios, Segovia, Spain
Durrell, Lawrence. The Alexandria Quartet: Justine Balthazar Mountolive Clea. Faber & Faber, 1962.
Price: US$83.38 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 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.
Seller: Nineveh Books, Wem, SHROP, United Kingdom
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Red cloth, gilt on blue. Dust jacket has a thin dampstain on the head. Interior crisp and clean. Collectively, this tetralogy was listed as one of the Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Seller: Contact Editions, ABAC, ILAB, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$102.62 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 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
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Lawrence Durrell. The Alexandria Quartet. Faber and Faber, London, 1962.
Price: US$115.45 + shipping
Description: 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
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Durrell, Lawrence. The Alexandria Quartet. Faber & Faber, 1962.
Price: US$121.50 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Buy with confidence! Book is in acceptable condition with wear to the pages, binding, and some marks within
Seller: Books Unplugged, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
Lawrence Durrell. The Alexandria Quartet. Faber and Faber, London, 1962.
Price: US$121.86 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A collection of four novels published together for the first time, written by British novelist Lawrence Durrell. First thus. Four novels bound into one volume. The Alexandria Quartet is a series of novels offering perspectives on a single set of events and characters in Alexandria, Egypt, during the Second World War. The fourth novel of the series is set six years later. The exploration of relativity and subject-object relations allow individual perspectives of a single set of evens, with the fourth book offering a display of the changes over time. Written by Lawrence George Durrell, an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer best known for this series. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light wear to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also very smart with light shelf wear and sunning to the spine. The odd small closed tear to the edges of the panels. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$133.66 + shipping
Description: HB RED CLOTH FRONT BINDING WEAK ELSE FINE PP884 DW FINE 8V0 First one volume hardcover
Seller: Badger Books, Woollahra, NSW, Australia
Durrell, Lawrence. The Alexandria Quartet. Faber & Faber, 1962.
Price: US$251.51 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New
Seller: Wizard Books, Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.
Durrell, Lawrence. The Alexandria Quartet. Faber & Faber, 1962.
Price: US$253.44 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed
Seller: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: One volume edition with revisions. A Fine copy in pale rose linen cloth covered boards, stamped in gilt on blue panel at spine, in a Fine pale blue dustwrapper printed in black and burnt red, price-clipped, with a trace of toning to spine and flapfold edges. Text and endpapers clean and unmarked. 884pp. Durrell's magnum opus. Q04323
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First trade edition. Includes preface by author. Fine in fine dust jacket. (Armorial bookplate under front jacket flap on paste-down. ) Collects the 4 novels comprising The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive & Clea. Attractive copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 884 pages
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Durrell, Lawrence. The Alexandria Quartet (Signed Limited Edition). Faber & Faber, London, 1962.
Price: US$452.36 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. 8vo. Gilt lettered orange cloth with" black hand" motif on front panel. Top edge gilt. Wrapped in clear acetate cover. Housed in gilt patterned cardboard slipcase. Edition limited to 500 numbered copies signed by the author, this is no. 54. Slipcase rubbed a little to the front panels, side panels and edges with heavier rubbing and the corners with light wear. Book is clean and tight, with just some dirt to the rear board, a couple of folded down page corners and very heavily sunned spine.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$481.04 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: ~No ownership marks. Orange cloth in fresh condition, panel with black hand to front board, spine faded. Corners sharp. All edges gilt. Headband. Clear plastic dustwrapper, original slipcase in decorative paper, slightly edgeworn but sound. 1st edition thus of all 4 books. Limited edition: #126 of 500 copies, signed by author. Hardly used, fine except spine faded. Size: 884pp
Seller: St Philip's Books, P.B.F.A., B.A., Oxford, United Kingdom
Price: US$577.24 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st Edition 1962. 1st one volume edition The Alexandria Quartet - Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea and signed by the author. Limited edition of 500 books this being number 450. Book is very good and bright. Nice bright un-faded spine. Slight patchy colour loss to front board cloth. Contents very good. Slip case not present. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 16878
Seller: Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, United Kingdom
Price: US$577.24 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 884 pp. Bound in a recent half maroon morocco over maroon cloth. Raised bands to spine with gilt decoration & lettering. New endpapers. Clean copy. No ownership names. The first collected edition with the text revised by the author and with a new preface. 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Lawrence Durrell. The Alexandria Quartet. Faber and Faber, 1962.
Price: US$577.24 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This book is a Limited Edition copy number 333/500 which has been SIGNED by AUTHOR. It is a clean copy with slight fading on spine of book and some minor shelf wear. Content is fine.
Seller: Hay-on-Wye Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, HEREF, United Kingdom
Durrell, Lawrence. The Alexandria Quartet. Faber & Faber, London, 1962.
Price: US$753.93 + shipping
Description: New full red leather binding with gilt stamped blue leather spine labels. Decorations to spine and borders stamped in blind. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Housed in a blue cloth slipcase. First one-volume edition.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Durrell, Lawrence. The Alexandria Quartet. London: Faber & Faber Ltd., 1962.
Price: US$769.66 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original binding of red cloth with gilt lettering and decorative bands to spine, black pictorial decoration to upper cover. Top page edge gilt. Yellow endpapers. Limited edition of 500 copies of which this is number 109. Signed by the author to the limitation page. Spotting to page edges, front and rear (extending to limitation page), otherwise the book is in very good condition in very good condition but spine faded covers. Slipcase in very good condition, slightly edgeworn and with two white marks to upper panel. 1296
Seller: Jeremy's Books, Andover, HAMPS, United Kingdom
Price: US$833.80 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The special issue of the first single-volume edition, limited to 500 numbered copies, signed by the author (this being #184). A short preface by the author details a few minor textual alterations. 8vo. 884pp. Orange buckram lettered and ruled in gold at the spine and with a hand motif black-stamped to the upper board. Cloth at backstrip lightly faded, else in fine state with original unprinted protector and decorated slipcase, a little chafed at extremities. Somewhat over bold former owner gift inscription to the front free endpaper.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Durrell (Lawrence) The Alexandria Quartet, number 100 of 500 copies signed by the author, original cloth, spine slightly faded, 1962
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Durrell, Lawrence. The Alexandria Quartet. Faber and Faber, London, 1962.
Price: US$863.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. One of five hundred copies signed by the author on the limitation page. Each of Durell's collected novellas - Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, and Cleo - each tell of the same events in Egypt from different perspectves before and during World War II, with the final novel acting as a sequel to all three. Full orange cloth over boards with motif to upper panel within blind impression. T.e.g. Some edgewear and minimal soiling to endpapers and text block. Near fine. Housed in slipcase.
Seller: Bromer Booksellers, Inc., ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
LAWRENCE DURRELL. THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET. FABER, 1962.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: Signed limited first edition of Durrell's masterpiece, one of 500 numbered copies. Signed by Lawrence Durrell on the limitation page. A fine first edition with plasticine dust jacket and near fine slipcase
Seller: Vagabond Books, A.B.A.A., PASADENA, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1026.21 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st Edition 1962. 1st one volume edition The Alexandria Quartet - Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea and signed by the author. Limited edition of 500 books this being number 370. Book is near fine and very bright. Nice bright unfaded spine. Contents very good. Includes the original cellophane wrapper and slip case. Slip case is about good with surface loss and rubbing to edges.More images can be taken upon request. Ref16963
Seller: Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, United Kingdom
Price: US$1100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed limited edition, and first single-volume edition. Copy number 88 of 500 copies, signed by Lawrence Durrell. Near Fine with cloth lightly rubbed at extremities and faintly faded at the spine; small, faint scrapes to edge of page block at early pages. In acetate wrapper which toned and dimpled at the spine. In a Very Good publisher's slipcase which is lightly rubbed at the extremities, and darkened unevenly along the edges. The first single-volume edition of Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, containing the novels Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive and Clea; Signed by the author.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: Signed limited first edition of Durrell's masterpiece, one of 500 numbered copies. Signed by Lawrence Durrell on the limitation page. Octavo, original orange cloth, hand-print design to upper board in black, yellow endpapers, top edge gilt. With the original acetate dust jacket, in the publisher's black and gold slipcase. Bookplate to the front pastedown of book collector Otis Skinner Blodget. An exceptional example. Lawrence Durrell's masterpiece The Alexandria Quartet are four novels set in Alexandria, Egypt during the 1940s. The first of his four novels Justine "demands comparison with the best books of our century." Balthazar continues Durrells epic series with "a spontaneous, resourceful new beauty" and, in the third novel Mountolive, Durrell again creates a "work of splendid craft and troubling veracity." The tetralogys final novel Clea completes Durrells stated design of modeling "the series on the relativity proposition in physics"altogether achieving "a spontaneous, resourceful new beauty" (New York Times). Named by Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Durrell (Lawrence).. The Alexandria Quartet. Faber and Faber,, 1962.
Price: US$1279.56 + shipping
Description: One of 500 numbered copies, signed by the author Spine a little faded, otherwise a very nice copy in original plain plastic dust-wrapper and slightly worn slipcase. Loosely inserted are a portrait postcard of Durrell signed by John Bodley and a letterpress poster announcing the authors appearance at Mowbrays Bookshop
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$1485.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. Signed by Author. Durrell, Lawrence. THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET; JUSTINE, BALTHAZAR, MOUNTOLIVE & CLEA. Signed. London: Faber and Faber, 1962. First one volume edition, revised limited to 500 signed & numbered copies. 8vo., 884pp. Publisher's salmon-orange cloth covered boards, bevelled edges, with leather title-label on spine. Top edge gilt. Includes a short Preface by the author, written for this edition: ''It has been possible, for this edition, to correct a number of small slips pointed out by readers and critics, and also to add some small passages which were cut out of the original volumes in the MS. stage. A fine lovely example in the publisher's original unlettered acetate dustwrapper & in the publisher's patterned black & gold paper covered card slipcase showing some minor use. An extremely good copy.[22-32614-30966].
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Durrell, Lawrence. The Alexandria Quartet [signed limited edition]. E.P. Dutton, New York, 1962.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: 884 pp. Beveled marbled paper boards over deep blue cloth backstrip, lettered and ruled in gilt, in publisher's slipcase. Spine slightly sunned, boards slightly rubbed at bevel, slipcase shows handling wear but is solid. One of 199 signed copies for distribution in the United States; the British edition published by Faber was 500 copies. A beautiful copy of Durrell's magnum opus and a high spot of twentieth century literature.
Seller: Triolet Rare Books, ABAA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited Edition. #438/500 copies of the British Limited. A beautiful Fine copy in deep orange buckram stamped in gilt in decorative panel at spine, top edge gilt, in publishers soft unprinted acetate dustwrapper (also Fine), in publisher's black/gold patterned paper slipcase (also Fine). 884pp. SIGNED by Durrell on the preliminary colophon leaf. With a one-paragraph by Durrell for this edition. The tetralogy, with minor revisions. The first volume (Justine) was adapted to the cinema in a feature which starred Dirk Bogarde, Anouk Aimee, Michael York, etc. Q16396 Hardcover in dustwrapper in publisher's slipcase
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1924.14 + shipping
Description: First collected edition, signed limited issue, number 390 of 500 copies signed by the author, of his enduring masterpiece, a study of love and political intrigue in Alexandria, Egypt before and during the Second World War. The trade issue was released as a hardback in dust jacket. "The four novels emerged in rapid succession from 1957 to 1960 and elicited wildly divergent but generally favourable reviews, praising or attacking Durrell's luxuriant prose, his highly romantic recreation of Alexandria, and his self-proclaimed use of Einstein. Only with the Quartet sales did Durrell begin to live from his writing" (ODNB). For this edition the author took the opportunity "to correct a number of small slips pointed out by readers and critics, and also to add some small passages which were cut out of the original volumes in the MS. stage" (preface). Thomas & Brigmore 33a. Anthony Burgess, 99 Novels, The Best in English Since 1939, 1984. Octavo. Original orange cloth, black label on gilt-lettered spine, hand-print design on front cover in black, bevelled edges, yellow endpapers, top edge gilt. Housed in original black and gold card slipcase. Light rubbing and couple of marks to extremities, internally clean, a near-fine copy. The slipcase a little rubbed with occasional spots of wear, remaining bright and firm.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2501.39 + shipping
Description: Signed limited edition, number 355 of 500 numbered copies, of Durrell's enduring masterpiece. Perhaps his greatest success, the Quartet is a study of love and political intrigue in Alexandria, Egypt before and during World War II. "The four novels emerged in rapid succession from 1957 to 1960 and elicited wildly divergent but generally favourable reviews, praising or attacking Durrell's luxuriant prose, his highly romantic recreation of Alexandria, and his self-proclaimed use of Einstein. Only with the Quartet sales did Durrell begin to live from his writing" (ODNB). Thomas & Brigmore 33a. Anthony Burgess, 99 Novels, The Best in English Since 1939, 1984. Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in red morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards, twin rule to to turn-ins, dark green endpapers, gilt edges. A fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom