alexandria quartet justine balthazar de durrell lawrence, Original o primera edición (42 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good Dustjacket. First American Edition. 884 Pp. Four Volumes In One, With Revisions To Three Volumes. Red Cloth Stamped In Blue. First American Issue, Using Sheets Printed In Great Britain, Of This 1962 Corrected And Slightly Revised Edition, With A New Preface By The Author. Book Would Be Near Fine, Bright, But Bumping And Faint Dampstaining To Leaves Around Upper Corner Of Page Block Centered Around Pp 300 And Declining In Both Directions. No Marks. Dj With Wear And Also Small Losses To Corners.

Paperback. First Thus. Mass-market paperbacks in 16mo. 4.25 x 6.375 in. 257; 247; 292; 280 pp. + adverts. Complete set of Durrell's tetralogy. First Giant Cardinal Edition, First Printings. Pictorial wrappers. No. 70 of Modern Library's list of 100 Best English-language Novels of the Twentieth Century. Very good. Justine good only, with mild waterstain to fore-edge & first two pages separating. Moderate edgewear and light toning to all volumes. Bindings generally tight & square otherwise.

Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good binding. Octavo. 884 pp. First American one-volume edition. As issued, in publisher's salmon cloth with title in gold on the spine; lacking the dust jacket. Binding is lightly rubbed at the spine and edges; generally it presents well; some foxing to the endpapers and some minor and limited staining to the bottom edge of the first blank; contents are clean. A nice edition of this modern classic.

4 vols. 8vo. Original gilt lettered cloth (faint spotting on page edges - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (light wear at edges - otherwise VG in protective covers, price clipped except Clea). Pp. 223 [&] 250 [&] 320 [&] 287 (all except Balthazar ex school library with usual stamps and markings and tape stains on endpapers; previous owner's neat inscription on front endpaper of Balthazar). Justine new edn 1963), Balthazar (4th imp 1960), Mountolive (5th imp 1961), Clea (1st edn 1960).

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of the Faber collection of four novels. Bears signature and date (1970) of previous owner on FEP. Otherwise unmarked and it excellent clean condition. Boards and DJ have v. minor corner scuffs. DJ is unclipped.

First edition. 8vo. 884 pp. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, good copy. (87713).

1st ed. thus hardback with dust jacket Nice copy octavo 884pp., Neat ownership signature o/w nice copy in like unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Four volumes. Justine: 1st edition, 7th impression: 1960: Binding nice and tight. Slight foxing to prelims else a very good plus, tight, clean copy in very good, slightly sunned, nicked and rubbed dustwrapper. Balthazar: 1st edition: 1958. Binding nice and tight. Neat inscription to front free endpaper dated 1958. A very good indeed clean copy in good, nicked, chipped and rubbed dustwrapper which is splitting to the rear hinge. Mountolive: 1st edition: 1958: Binding nice and tight but endpapers cracking. Neat inscription to front free endpaper dated 1958. A very good, clean copy in very good, nicked, chipped and rubbed dustwrapper. Clea: 1st edition: 1960: Binding nice and tight. A very good indeed clean copy in very good, nicked, chipped and rubbed dustwrapper which has a few short, closed tears. Overall a very good set of this classic work.

Paperback. Condición: very good. First paperback edition (Presumed). Yellow, green, blue and red small octavo volumes; 1100p. "The Alexandria Quartet series by British author Lawrence Durrell. Set in Alexandria, Egypt, around World War II, the four novels tell essentially the same story from different points of view and come to a conclusion in Clea. Mountolive is the only third person narrative in the series, and it is also the most overtly political."-Wikipedia. // Fiction Love stories. Romance fiction. Alexandria (Egypt) -- Fiction. All four volumes in very good condition overall; pages clean, binding tight; very minor edgewear. Bright colors on covers; small paint-mark on cover of Justine, very minor chipping on small section of Mountolive spine.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. First Editions. First editions. Four volumes. 8vo. Bound c.2004 by Bayntun-Riviere in full light blue morocco, the spines lettered in gilt, hand-marbled endleaves, gilt edges.

First edition in collected form. Faber & Faber, London. 1969. Hardback with dust-wrapper. 884 pages. Dust-wrapper has fine wrinking to lamination and scratch to rear panel; extremities of cloth sl. rubbed.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Complete in one volume. First edition thus. Very good in a very good (moderate edge wear and age toning) dust jacket.; 884 pages.

hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Justine 1st Edition, 8th printin. 4 volume hard cover set with dust jackets - no slipcase - minor scuffing and wear to edges of dust jackets - some foxing to closed page edges - otherwise covers fine bindings strong contents clean - enjoy.

Cloth. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Poor. First Edition. First one-volume edition. Jacket has heavy tanning, chipping, and tearing with tape repairs to the inside of jacket, some loss. Some light edgewear to boards and spine ends, front hinge a little strained, owner details to ffep, some foxing to endpapers, however, contents clean and firm. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Omnibus Edition. A Fine copy in rose-red linen cloth covered boards, in white, black and red dustwrapper, price-clipped. Lengthy (but charming) inscription to half-title page, else clean and unmarked. 884pp. Q07217.

Hardback. Condición: Fine. First Printing. 2009 First Printing. 4 Fine Hardbacks. No inscriptions or bookplates. Near Fine slipcases. Very slight marks to slipcases. The four volumes of The Alexandria Quartet. UK Postage £3.40; Airmail to USA and Canada £34.40; Airmail to most of the Rest of the World (including the EU), £34.40.

Condición: Good. 4 uniform gilt lettered cloths, unclipped dust jacket, 253+250+320+287 pages, 8vo. The Alexandria Quartet: 1) Justine: first edition, fifth impression 1958; 2) Balthazar: first edition, third impression1959; 3) Mountolive: first edition, third impression, 1959; 4) Clea: first edition, second impression, 1960.; Edges dust jacket occasionaly frayed, some tiny chips top edge dust jackets missing; dust jackets partly discoloured/browned.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Edition. First Printing. A Fine copy in rose linen cloth, in a Fine price-clipped dustwrapper (one invisible closed tear top front panel. 884pp. Text and endpapers immaculate, an unread copy. Durrell's masterpiece. Q16304.

First Edition, 1962. First American Edition. Collected Edition, comprising the complete quartet of four novels, originally published separately. 884pp. Durrell's masterpiece. A Fine copy in pale rose cloth, in Near Fine dustwrapper, not price-c lipped, with very minor rubbing to points.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Edition Thus. One volume edition with revisions. A Fine copy in pale rose linen cloth covered boards, stamped in gilt on blue panel at spine, in a Fine pale blue dustwrapper printed in black and burnt red, price-clipped, with a trace of toning to spine and flapfold edges. Text and endpapers clean and unmarked. 884pp. Durrell's magnum opus. Q04323.

First Edition, 1962. First American collected edition. A Fine hardcover copy in rose colored linen cloth boards, spine gilt in pale blue panel, in a Fine dustwrapper, not price-clipped. 884pp. The Quartet complete.

4 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispieces and numerous sepia-toned photographs as plates; pictorial boards, terracotta cloth backs lettered in gilt, brown endpapers, a fine set in publisher's board slip-cases. With uniform personal bookplate on front paste-downs. COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE VERY SCARCE.

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).

Cloth. Condición: Very Good Indeed. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. None Ilustrador. First edition. A complete first edition set of Lawrence Durrell's 'Alexandria Quartet', with 'Mountolive' and 'Clea' retaining their original dust wrappers. The first edition, first impression of each volume of the quarter.With the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrappers to 'Clea' and 'Mountolive'.Lawrence Durrell's tetralogy of novels present three perspectives of a single set of events and characters in Alexandria, Egypt, both before and during WWII. The fourth book - 'Clea' - book is set six years later.In order of publication, present here are: 'Justine' (1957), 'Balthazar' (1958), 'Mountolive' (1958) and 'Clea' (1960).With a loosely inserted letter, dated 1970, from John ME Talbot, the sales office manager of Faber, the publisher of these works. Addressed to L.A. Shilcof, Talbot informs him that any copy of 'Balthazar' dated 1958 is a first edition.With the bookplate of John Waern Hill to the front pastedown of 'Clea' and 'Mountolive'. With the inscription of T I Rodela to the front free endpaper of 'Justine'. In the publisher's original cloth bindings, with price unclipped dust wrapper to final two volumes. Bumping to back strip heads and tails, with rubbing to back strip of 'Justine'. Otherwise, externally excellent. Dust wrappers in excellent condition, with light chipping to head of 'Mountolive', and minor edge wear to tail of each dust wrapper. Bookplates to front pastedown of two latest works, with inscription to front free endpaper of 'Justine'. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed. book.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK Editions, First Printings. Set of four true first editions, first printings. All are in their original jackets. The jacket of Justine is about fair. Price clipped and loss to corner's, bottom and top of spine. Baltazar, Mountolive and Clea are in their original jackets and all are priced with light wear to the extremities. Internally all copies are clean, tightly bound, light spotting. A heavy set that will qualify for extra postage costs.

First editions of each of the novels comprising the author's acclaimed Alexandria Quartet. Octavo, original cloth, 4 volumes. Each volume is very good in a very good to near fine dust jacket. A very bright set of Durrell's acclaimed novel cycle. 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: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. First American Editions, all First Printings. A Fine set of the four individual volumes of Durrell's famous tetralogy, each with original dustwrappers, not price-clipped (except for Mountolive). Justine, Fine in red textured paper covered boards, 253pp. Balthazar, Fine in black cloth, 250pp. Mountolive, Fine in black cloth, 318pp. Clea, Fine in black cloth, 287pp. All dust wrappers Fine. Fine copies of all these volumes have become quite uncommon, though reprints are common. Beautiful set! Q19569.

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.