![]() An important association copy: Group Captain Peter and Joan Bird were friends of Durrell's for over twenty years. Sommi res, in the Languedoc in the south of France, was Durrell's home from 1966 to 1990. Presentation copy signed by Durrell to front blank, 'Peter and Joan Bird from Larry Durrell, Sommi res 1984'. (wear and tiny chips to extremities in places, two short tears and minor creases near extremities). The Alexandria Quartet in one vol., translated into Swedish as Alexandria Kvartetten (presentation and association copy signed by Durrell). Heavy, large volume may require extra shipping. Purple, green, and blue front cover of dustwrapper, not price-clipped ($10.00) rear panel has full length black and white photo-portrait of author small hole in dw on right spine edge at 3" up from bottom (NO impact on red cloth itself) corners worn, spine ends worn, with chips across bottom worn down right front cover gutter (not rear gutter), down right edge front cover and down rear cover left edge (backed now with Archival tape): now in mylar which forgives these sins graciously. ![]() Red cloth with turquoise decorative title box on spine for bright gilt-stamped lettering edges lightly age-toned single short ink brackets on margins of each of pages 193, 195, 198, else clean text. Cavafy as having produced a new translation of Clea. ![]() Durrell's brief Preface mentions very minor changes to each of three volumes, plus name of C.P. ![]()
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