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Durrell, Lawrence. SELECTED POEMS. Faber., 1956.
Price: US$83.69 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 79pp. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND INSCRIBED FOR KIM AND DATED 1974. Very good clean condition with the very good clean price clipped yellow dj in protector with just small tear at top of spine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0.0 0.0
Seller: Chris Barmby MBE. C & A. J. Barmby, Kent, United Kingdom
Durrell, Lawrence. Selected Poems. Grove Press - an Evergreen Book, 1956.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The first American printing, in wrappers, published by The Grove Press in 1956. ( There was a hardcover printing of 100 copies. ) Evergreen Book number E - 57. A near fine copy with some light soiling to the wrappers. The Grove Press issue in America would appear to be considerably more uncommon than the first British edition published by Faber and Faber. Lawrence Durrell has signed this copy and underlined it as well to the dedication page. ( Durrell dedicated this book to his daughters ' Ping-Ku and Sappho-Jane. )
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 79 pp., Yellow Gilt Cloth, Dust Jacket Good with marginal tears, minor losses, creasing, foxing to end papers & edges of text block, else Very Good. DJ from Grove Press edition of this work laid in. (Brigham, p. 18)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.
Lawrence Durrell. Selected Poems [Signed]. Faber & Faber, London, 1956.
Price: US$161.06 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1st Edition. 79pp. SIGNED by author on ffep. Also signed by previous owner and friend of the author, Raymond Mills, 1956, Vila, New Hebrides. Yellow cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine. Clean and tightly bound. Unclipped yellow dust jacket with black lettering. Small dirt mark to lower front cover. Wear to top and tail of spine.
Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, United Kingdom
DURRELL, Lawrence. Selected Poems. Faber and Faber, London, 1956.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Boards slightly bowed else fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
DURRELL, LAWRENCE.. Selected Poems. London: Faber and Faber, 1956, 1956.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Some foxing; very good in a stained dust jacket. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author, 'Autographed for James Jones. Salut! Lawrence Durrell. Paris 1960.' With the recipient's pencil signature. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.