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Durrell, Lawrence. The Alexandria Quartet (Signed Limited Edition). Faber & Faber, London, 1962.
Price: US$451.81 + 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$484.56 + 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$581.48 + 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
Durrell, Lawrence. The Alexandria Quartet. London: Faber & Faber Ltd., 1962.
Price: US$775.30 + 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$839.91 + 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$1033.74 + 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$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.
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$1938.26 + 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