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Durrell, Lawrence. Monsieur, or the Prince of Darkness. Faber & Faber, 1974.
Price: US$15.46 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Faber & Faber, London, 1974. First Edition. Book condition: Very Good. Covered in grey boards with gilt and black titles to spine. Spine creased at bottom, and slightly sun-darkened. Interior clean, tight and unmarked. Dustcover: Good. some wear to top and bottom of spine, and to front corners. This is the first book of the Avignon Quintet.
Seller: Riverside Books UK, York, YORKS, United Kingdom
Durrell, Lawrence. Livia. London; Faber;, 1974.
Price: US$32.21 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. First part of the author's Avignon quintet (Monsieur, Livia, Contance, Sebastian and Quinx). Fine in very good dustjacket.
Seller: timkcbooks (Member of Booksellers Association), Penzance, United Kingdom
Durrell, Lawrence. Monsieur. London; Faber;, 1974.
Price: US$32.21 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Second part of the author's Avignon quintet (Monsieur, Livia, Contance, Sebastian and Quinx). Near fine with touch of foxing in good, price clipped dustjacket with a tear to the base of the spine.
Seller: timkcbooks (Member of Booksellers Association), Penzance, United Kingdom
Durrell, Lawrence. Monsieur or the Prince of Darkness. Faber & Faber, 1974.
Price: US$45.09 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1974 Faber Hardcover 1st Edition 1st Impression. Near Fine clean tight binding in near fine clipped dustjacket. Wonderful cover design by David Gentleman
Seller: MacKellar Art & Books, Bournemouth, United Kingdom
Durrell, Lawrence. Monsieur, or the Prince of Darkness. Faber & Faber, 1974.
Price: US$49.72 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. The first book in the series, The Avignon Quintet, for which Durrell won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1974). Fine in fine dust wrapper. DW faded and showing light shelfwear to corners. Internally lightly toned pages, text is clear and remains a fine copy. 1974. Hardback. First edition copy. . . .
Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Ireland
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Faber and Faber Limited, London, England, U.K. , 1974. First (1st) Printing of the First Edition - states "First published in 1974 by Faber and Faber Limited" with no other printings listed. Fine- in a Fine- Dust Jacket. Appears Unread. The Text Block is clean, white, tight, straight and square with no markings of any kind. The Binding is full beigish green cloth, with sunning to boards, bright gilt on black title, etc., to spine, white endpapers unmarked except for a small paste-on name and address of a prior owner on the front free endpaper, and all corncers square and sharp. The pictorial Dust Jacket is bright, but faded at the spine and an inch of the rear panel, and intact with the price clipped and minor wear at the top of the front and rear folds. See photos. 296 pages. 5 1/2" x 8". The first volume in the author's Avignon Quintet, this novel won the 1974 James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Drawing on the author's study of Gnostic texts, the reader is presented with five competing narratives, each claiming to be the author of the book. ISBN 10: 0571106609 / ISBN 13: 9780571106608
Seller: Mattabesset Books, Kensington, CT, U.S.A.
DURRELL, Lawrence. MONSIEUR, OR THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS. Faber and Faber, 1974.
Price: US$64.41 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Original beige cloth with the excellent and unclipped dust-jacket (priced £2.75 net) designed by David Gentleman. Jacket lovely an bright just slightly rubbed at points of corners and joints of spine, but really very minimal indeed. A Fine copy. The first novel in Durrell's 'Avignon Quintet' and winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1974.
Seller: Worlds End Bookshop (ABA, PBFA, ILAB), LONDON, United Kingdom
Durrell, Lawrence. Monsieur. London; Faber;, 1974.
Price: US$83.74 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Second part of the author's Avignon quintet (Monsieur, Livia, Contance, Sebastian and Quinx). Near fine, inscribed by Lawrence Durrell to the front free endpaper in near fine dustjacket with a small tear to the top of the rear panel.
Seller: timkcbooks (Member of Booksellers Association), Penzance, United Kingdom
Price: US$121.10 + shipping
Description: Size 8 x 5.25 inches. In different color cloth covers with gilt to spine. With dustwrapper. In good condition with good dustwrapper (dw; Wrapper darkened and rubbed at ends. Not Price clipped). One volume has private stamp on front endpaper. Some light dust marks top edges. Else a clean and tight copy. A complete set of the five books comprising The Avignon Quintet, all of which are first editions. The quintet comprises: Monsieur, or the Prince of Darkness (1974); Livia, or Buried Alive (1978); Constance, or Solitary Practices (1982); Sebastian, or Ruling Passions (1983); Quinx, or The Ripper's Tale (1985).
Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United Kingdom
Price: US$128.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printings in unclipped jackets. Spines are lightly faded. Top edges of back boards of the first two volumes are bumped. Still a handsome set.
Seller: Invisible Books, Brighton, United Kingdom
Price: US$161.03 + shipping
Description: , Monsieur, 296 pages, signed by Margo Durrell (actress and sister of the author) on the front free endpaper; Livia, 265 pages, ISBN 0571112978; Constance, 393 pages, ISBN 0571117570; Sebastian, 202 pages, ISBN 0571131115; Quinx, 201 pages, signed by the author on the title page, ISBN 0571134440 First Editions , light bumping to corners and spines of books, books in very good to near fine condition , dustwrappers on all volumes, slight rubbing to edges, Livia dustwrapper has small edge tears, others are in very good condition , coloured cloth with titles to spines , 21 cm x 14 cm Paperback SIGNED by Lawrence and Margo Durrell ISBN: 571106609
Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom
Price: US$242.19 + shipping
Description: 5 vols., 8vo., First Edition, front free endpaper of first volume lightly browned, personal bookplate on front paste-down of third volume; cloth (olive/green/blue/yellow/green respectively), backs lettered variously in gilt, silver and black, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. The quintet comprises: Monsieur, or the Prince of Darkness (1974); Livia, or Buried Alive (1978); Constance, or Solitary Practices (1982); Sebastian, or Ruling Passions (1983); Quinx, or The Ripper's Tale (1985).
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Price: US$244.77 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Excellent first edition copies of the first three volumes from Lawrence Durrell's The Avignon Quintet, the second of which is signed. The first edition, first impressions of this three-volume set in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Inscribed by the author to the title page of 'Livia'.Ink inscription to the front free end paper of 'Monsieur', dated 1974. Lawrence George Durrell (1912-1990) was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer. The first three volumes from Lawrence Durrell's five-volume set The Avignon Quintet, published between 1974 and 1985. The novels are metafictional, and the action is set before and during the Second World War, mainly in France, Egypt, and Switzerland. Monsieur, or The Prince of Darkness (1974), is the first volume in The Avignon Quintet series, and has a metafictional narrative. It was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Livia, or Buried Alive (1978), is the second volume in the series, in which Monsieur is revealed as the fictional work of Rob Sutcliffe. In this volume, we meet the 'real-life' characters behind Sutcliffe's fictional creations. Constance, or Solitary Practices (1982) is the third volume in the series. It involves some characters from the preceding novel and also introduces new ones. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, cloth is in lovely condition. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Dust wrappers are mostly very bright and smart. Dust wrapper to 'Monsieur' has a little wear to the joints and head of the spine to the wrap. A small amount of faint spotting to the front of the dust wrapper to 'Livia'. A little wear to the fold of the front flap of the dust wrapper to 'Constance'. Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$1932.39 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A complete set of the five books comprising The Avignon Quintet, all of which are first editions, first impressions and are either signed or signed and inscribed by the author. A little rubbing in places and a couple of small nicks to the dust jackets of the first two volumes. The remaining volumes are all fine in fine dust jackets. A near fine set overall with attractive jacket illustrations by David Gentleman.
Seller: Fine Book Cellar Ltd. ABA ILAB PBFA, Chelmsford, United Kingdom
Price: US$2125.63 + shipping
Description: A set of first edition, first printings published by Faber between 1974-1985. Consisting: 'Monsieur'/'Livia'/'Constance'/Sebastian'/'Quinx'. A near fine or better set without inscriptions. In near fine unclipped wrappers. All signed without dedication to the title page by the Author. Both 'Monsieur' and 'Quinx' are signed in the year of publication. The hardest book in the series 'Constance' is signed on the title page with 1986 below. 'Constance' was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1982 and is exceptionally rare to find signed. Rarely sold as signed set.
Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom