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Durrell, Lawrence. The Tree of Idleness. Faber and Faber, 1955.

Price: US$15.00 + shipping

Description: Endpapers browned, slight wear, near fine in near fine dust jacket with spine and edges lightly toned and a small chip to upper spine in mylar cover.

Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.

Lawrence Durrell. The Tree of Idleness.. Faber, 1955.

Price: US$18.98 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 1955. 48 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn with slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are a mildly crushed, with small splits and chips. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.

Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom

Durrell, Lawrence. The Tree of Idleness and Other Poems. Faber & Faber, London, 1955.

Price: US$20.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: 8vo . We specialize in fine books in collectible condition. Orders are professionaly packaged and shipped promptly. M20

Seller: Rain Dog Books, Bloomington, IL, U.S.A.

Lawrence Durrell. The Tree of Idleness. Faber and Faber, 1955.

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Seller: R Bookmark, Youngtown, AZ, U.S.A.

DURRELL, Lawrence. The Tree of Idleness. Faber and Faber, London, 1955.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Condition: New

Description: 48 p. 23 cm. Burgundy cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Offsetting to endpapers. Light shelf wear.

Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada

Durrell, Lawrence. The Tree of Idleness And Other Poems. Faber and Faber LTD, London, 1955.

Price: US$30.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Ships same or next business day. Bookplate on the paste-down endpaper. Free endpapers are tanned, head and tail edges of boards are rubbed. NO dust jacket. Spine is cracked between pages 16 and 16. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 48 pages

Seller: Good Books In The Woods, Spring, TX, U.S.A.

Durrell, Lawrence. Tree of Idleness; And Other Poems. Faber & Faber, London, 1955.

Price: US$30.00 + shipping

Description: 8vo. 48 pp. Cloth binding in clipped dustwrapper, very good condition. (87744).

Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.

Durrell, Lawrence.. The Tree of Idleness and Other Poems.. London: Faber & Faber, 1955., 1955.

Price: US$30.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. Original purple cloth a touch faded at edges, gilt spine lettering dulled; dust jacket very lightly edge-worn and sunned on spine. Ink ownership name on front paste-down; some browning on endpapers. A near fine copy.

Seller: Wilfrid M. de Freitas - Bookseller, ABAC, Montreal, QC, Canada

DURRELL, Lawrence.. The Tree of Idleness. And Other Poems. Faber and Faber London, 1955.

Price: US$32.49 + shipping

Description: Faber and Faber, London. 1955. First edition. Hardback with DW. Slim 8vo. Purple cloth boards are slightly faded along top edge. Wrapper shelf worn with a browned spine and some small tears. Pages browned but overall a nice clean copy.

Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom

DURRELL, Lawrence. The Tree of Idleness. London: Faber and Faber, 1955.

Price: US$32.49 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition. Octavo, pp48. Purple cloth covered boards in dust jacket. Very good condition book (offset to end papers, spotting to fore edge, extremities of the boards are a bit faded) in a Very good dust jacket.

Seller: Picture This (ABA, ILAB, IVPDA), Sunningdale, United Kingdom

Durrell, Lawrence. The Tree of Idleness. London: Faber & Faber, 1955.

Price: US$32.49 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: VG+ in VG- dustwrapper. First edition of Durrell’s fourth book of poetry, mostly of a reflective nature. 48pp Purple cloth with gold lettering. Other than very slight shelf-wear and a little browning of the endpapers the book is almost as new throughout. The unclipped d/w has a lightly sunned spine with a small amount of wear at the ends but is otherwise undamaged. Loosely inserted is a copy of the Poetry Book Society Bulletin for June 1955 this title being one of its recommendations for that month.

Seller: Crask Books, Loughborough, United Kingdom

Lawrence Durrell. The Tree of Idleness and Other Poems. Faber & Faber, 1955.

Price: US$33.80 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 1955. First Edition. 48 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Minor pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Some marks and staining to surfaces. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears, chipping and creasing. Some tanning and foxing to all surfaces, particularly to spine.

Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom

DURRELL, Lawrence.. The Tree of Idleness, and other poems.. , 1955.

Price: US$40.31 + shipping

Description: London: Faber and Faber, (1955). 8vo. Orig. cloth. In non-price clipped dustjacket. (48pp.). Fly-leaves foxed and with former owner's name, otherwise a nice copy of the 1st edition.

Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia

DURRELL,, Lawrence.. THE TREE OF IDLENESS And other poems.. London, Faber & Faber Limited 1955., 1955.

Price: US$44.34 + shipping

Description: 48pp. 8vo. Original cloth in dustwrapper, a near fine copy. First edition.

Seller: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australia

DURRELL, Lawrence. The Tree of Idleness. Faber & Faber Ltd, London, 1955.

Price: US$45.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First edition. A little foxing on the endpapers else fine in near fine dustwrapper with at iny chip and tear at the crown.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Durrell, Lawrence,. THE TREE OF IDLENESS, AND OTHER POEMS. Faber and Faber, London, 1955.

Price: US$45.48 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: 48pp. Owners bookplate pasted to f.e.p. End-papers browned. Fine copy purple boards, gilt titles to spine Size: 8vo

Seller: THOMAS RARE BOOKS, Yaxley, SUFFOLK, United Kingdom

Durrell, Lawrence. The Tree of Idleness. Faber and Faber, 1955.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: The first British edition, published in 1955 by Faber and Faber. A near fine copy of the book with a trace of offsetting to the endsheets and a touch of wear to the tips. Dust jacket very good with chip at head of spine and another narrow chip to the base of the rear panel. A few short edge tears.

Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.

Durrell, Lawrence. The Tree Of Idleness. Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1955.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 48 pg. p. Some discoloration to pages. Otherwise a nice book of poetry. Durrell's fourth book of verse. Very good in very good dust jacket. Average shelf wear to edges of book. Light chips to DJ top and bottom. Straight and clean book. First British Edition.

Seller: Outrider Book Gallery, Lacey, WA, U.S.A.

Durrell, Lawrence. The Tree of Idleness; and Other Poems. Faber and Faber, London, 1955.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Description: 8vo, plum cloth. Spine stamping slightly dulled, a touch of shelf rubbing, else fine in a bright dust jacket with a bit of light rubbing to the extremities.

Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.

DURRELL, Lawrence. Tree of Idleness and Other Poems. , 1955.

Price: US$55.00 + shipping

Description: DURRELL, Lawrence. The Tree of Idleness and Other Poems. Original cloth, non-priceclipped dust jacket. London: Faber and Faber, [1955]. First edition. Stone B.20. Minor foxing to free endpapers, else fine.

Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.

Lawrence Durrell. The Tree of Idleness and Other Poems. Faber and Faber, London, 1955.

Price: US$63.68 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: A first edition, first impression of Lawrence Durrell's collection of poems, including 'The Tree of Idleness'. The first edition, first impression of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Bookplate of L. A. Shilcof to the front free end paper, containing a reproduction of a print by Aubrey Beardsley. Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990) was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer. This is his fourth book of poems, containing twenty-four poems, including 'The Tree of Idleness', 'Cradle Song' and 'Orpheus'. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, cloth is very smart and bright. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean except for offsetting to the end papers. Dust wrapper is a little sunned to the spine, with chipping to the head of the spine and an amateur tape repair to the verso of the wrap. Near Fine

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

DURRELL, Lawrence (1912-1990). The Tree of Idleness, and other poems. London: Faber and Faber, 1955, 1955.

Price: US$64.98 + shipping

Description: [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.48. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green typographic dust-jacket, priced at 8/6. Some offsetting to endpapers. Jacket a little toned to spine, with some rubbing and a couple of small closed tears. Near fine.

Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom

Durrell, Lawrence. The Tree of Idleness. London; Faber;, 1955.

Price: US$64.98 + shipping

Description: First edition, first printing. Poetry Book Society Bulletin and associated press cutting laid in. Small ownership inscription, otherwise fine in near fine dustjacket.

Seller: timkcbooks (Member of Booksellers Association), Penzance, United Kingdom

DURRELL, Lawrence. The Tree of Idleness. Faber & Faber Ltd, London, 1955.

Price: US$65.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First edition. Fine in price-clipped, else fine dustwrapper.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

DURRELL, Lawrence. The Tree of Idleness. Faber & Faber, London, 1955.

Price: US$66.00 + shipping

Description: First Impression. Slim octavo; burgundy cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 48pp. Touch of the usual offsetting to endpapers, else Fine in a Near Fine, price-clipped dustjacket with a hint of sunning at spine.

Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.

Durrell, Lawrence. The Tree of Idleness, and Other Poems. Faber & Faber, London, 1955.

Price: US$80.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Cloth, near fine, gently rubbed at spine tips, and faintly foxed on endpapers. Dust jacket price-clipped; a little tanned along spine; some light wrinkling and a small chip along top edge. A nice copy, presents nicely in mylar.

Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.

Durrell, Lawrence.. The Tree of Idleness and Other Poems.. Faber and Faber Ltd, London, 1955.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First Impression. A Fine copy in purple cloth, in a Fine dull green jacket printed in red and dark green, not price-clipped. 48pp. Q15727

Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.

Lawrence Durrell. The Tree of Idleness and Other Poems. Faber & Faber, 1955.

Price: US$123.46 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Inscribed by the author to 'Sir John Martin' by the author on the front endpaper. The covers are grubby and marked and have some wear. They are very slightly bowed. The pages are tanned with age.

Seller: Slade's, Banbury, United Kingdom

Durrell, Lawrence. THE TREE OF IDLENESS and Other Poems. Faber and Faber Ltd, London, 1955.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Octavo. 48pp, bound in burgundy cloth, spine lettering gilt. A fine copy in a so near fine dust jacket.

Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Surprise, AZ, U.S.A.

Durrell, Lawrence. THE TREE OF IDLENESS And Other Poems. Faber & Faber N.d. (ca. 1955), London, 1955.

Price: US$220.00 + shipping

Description: Uncorrected proof in brown wrappers; 8vo. Proofs of this era quite uncommon. Name and the number 10 circled on the front cover, else about fine.

Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.

DURRELL, Lawrence. The Tree of Idleness. Faber & Faber Ltd, London, 1955.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition. Boards bowed thus very good in an about fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

DURRELL, Lawrence.. The Tree of Idleness and other poems.. London Faber and Faber, 1955.

Price: US$272.25 + shipping

Description: First edition, first impression, signed and dated by the author with a signed note by him laid in; 8vo; publisher's purple cloth, titles to spine gilt, with the dust jacket, endpapers rather browned but a very good copy in the somewhat nicked, rubbed and sunned, price-clipped dust jacket missing a very small piece at the top of the spine panel. Boldly signed by Durrell on the title page in 1985, the signed note by him written on his printed calling card reads, ' Please Note I shall be in London May 15 for ten days, I hope at Alan Thomas' in case Gerry wishes to contact me yours Larry'.

Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom

Durrell, Lawrence.. The Tree of Idleness. Signed First Edition with Inscription on title page.. London: Faber and Faber., 1955.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 8vo. Gilt Maroon cloth, 48 pp., dust-jacket Good with marginal tears & faint foxing to end papers. (Brigham, p. 10)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). Association copy.

Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

Durrell, Lawrence. THE TREE OF IDLENESS. And Other Poems. Faber and Faber, London, 1955.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Description: 1st Edition. Soft cover. First Edition, Proof Copy, of this highly-regarded poetry collection by the author of, The Alexandria Quartet. A near fine copy with some light use, in the publisher's brown wrappers, printed in black, as issued. 8vo. 48 pp. Differs from the text of the Faber first edition, with 'Hanover Letters' rather than 'Letters In Darkness' on pp. 38. [From a comprehensive TBCL Durrell collection of first editions in superb condition].

Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada

DURRELL, Lawrence. The Tree of Idleness. Faber & Faber Ltd, London, 1955.

Price: US$400.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Uncorrected proof. Name partially erased on the front wrap, else near fine in wrappers. Scarce in this format.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.