alexandria quartet justine balthazar de durrell lawrence, Ejemplar firmado (16 resultados)

Hard Cover. Signed, Limited Edition. #75 of 199 copies for American distribution, signed by the author FINE IN FINE SLIPCASE.

Decorative Cloth. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. 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. Signed by Author(s).

1st Edition. 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].

First editions of each of the novels comprising the author's acclaimed Alexandria Quartet, each volume signed by Lawrence Durrell. Octavo, original cloth, 4 volumes. Justine is signed twice by Lawrence Durrell on the front free endpaper. Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea are each signed by Lawrence Durrell on the front free endpaper. Each book is fine in near fine to fine dust jackets. Each volume are housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Easily the nicest signed set we have seen. 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 Durrell's 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 tetralogy's final novel Clea completes Durrell's 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.

Decorative Cloth. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. 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. Signed by Author(s).

Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Edition. 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.

First editions of each of the novels comprising the author's acclaimed Alexandria Quartet, each signed by Lawrence Durrell. Octavo, original cloth, 4 volumes. Justine is a presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "Signed for Christopher hope he finds her good company! Lawrence Durrell 1985." Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea are each signed on the title page, "Lawrence Durrell 1985." Each book is near fine to fine in near fine to fine dust jackets. A very sharp set, rare and desirable signed. 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 Durrell's 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 tetralogy's final novel Clea completes Durrell's 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.

4 volumes. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jackets. Justine retains the publisher's printed wraparound band. The four volumes are preserved in a custom quarter morocco folding clamshell box. First editions; first printings; in the first issue dust jackets. Justine: faintest of foxing to the fore-edge and top edge of the dust jacket; very light fading of the rose cloth; else a fresh unworn copy in a very sharp jacket with very slight fading to the spine. Balthazar: South African bookseller's tiny ticket to front pastedown; else a fine copy in a beautiful jacket with just a touch of fading to the backstrip. Mountolive: slightest of foxing to the fore-edge and top edge of the text block; else a fine copy in a fine jacket. Clea: a fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. Justine is signed and inscribed by Lawrence Durrell on the front free endpaper.

First editions, first printings. Four volumes. With an autograph letter signed. Beautifully bound in full red, blue, yellow and orange leather after the design of the original cloth bindings. Titles and decorative borders in gilt to the spines. Hand sewn endbands. All edges gilt. Housed in a bespoke black cloth slipcase. Justine with a little light spotting to the prelims and with a pocket to the rear pastedown to house the folded autograph letter. A fine set of the first printing of Durrell's critically acclaimed tetralogy, immaculately presented. The letter written from the author's Bellapaix home reads "Dear Vi / Just a brief note to tell you that we are thinking with deep sympathy of you, and that if there is anything we can do for you at this end you have only to ask / your sincerely / Lawrence Durrell". In 1998 the Modern Library ranked The Alexandria Quartet number 70 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

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 Durrell's 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 tetralogy's final novel Clea completes Durrell's 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.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Signed Limited Edition. Signed limited edition, and first single-volume edition. Copy number 88 of 500 copies, signed by Lawrence Durrell. Near Fine with cloth lightly rubbed at extremities and faintly faded at the spine; small, faint scrapes to edge of page block at early pages. In acetate wrapper which toned and dimpled at the spine. In a Very Good publisher's slipcase which is lightly rubbed at the extremities, and darkened unevenly along the edges. The first single-volume edition of Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, containing the novels Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive and Clea; Signed by the author.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Each volume signed by Durrell on front free endpaper, except for Mountolive signed on title page. All early printings (though none firsts). All vols. (except for Justine) very good with good+ dust jackets: minor wear and handling soil; a few smalls tears to jackets; slightly inscreased soiling and discoloring to rear panels of Mountolive and Clea. Justine shows significant rub wear at head & foot of spine and significant dampstaining and chipping to jacket; signature also smudged. Books come in slipcase, scuffed and edge-worn. Jacket flaps clipped. Very rare to have the complete Quartet signed. Happy to send pictures. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Limited Edition. 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. Signed by Author(s).

Faber. 1962. First edition, thus, in one volume with revisions. Limited to 500 signed copies, this being number 432. SIGNED BY DURRELL TO LIMITATION PAGE. Spine sunned, slightly concaved and rubbed, small portion of rubbing to upper board, light smudge to top corner of front free endpaper. Lovely crochet-lace cross bookmark loosely inerted. Generally a clean and sound copy in worn patterned slip-case, lacking the glassine wrapper.

Signed limited edition, number 355 of 500 numbered copies, of Durrell's enduring masterpiece. Perhaps his greatest success, the Quartet is a study of love and political intrigue in Alexandria, Egypt before and during World War II. "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). Thomas & Brigmore 33a. Anthony Burgess, 99 Novels, The Best in English Since 1939, 1984. Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in red morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards, twin rule to to turn-ins, dark green endpapers, gilt edges. A fine copy.

Condición: Near Fine. Signed Limited Edition. Signed limited edition; number 167 of a limited 199 copies signed by Lawrence Durrell. Bound in publisher's marbled paper-covered boards over blue cloth spine lettered in gilt; lacking acetate wrapper and slipcase. Near Fine with light rubbing to binding, minor sunning to spine. Evidence of bookplate removal to first blank sheet. Three-quarter-inch exposure to front inner hinge at bottom. Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, containing the novels Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive and Clea; Signed by the author.