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Lawrence Durrell. The Tree of Idleness and Other Poems. Faber & Faber, 1955.
Price: US$122.40 + 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. 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
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.