first edition Hardcover
1962 · New York
by Durrell, Lawrence
New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Very Good in a Near Fine jacket, clipped, faintly toned and rubbed. Red buckram, rubbed at the bottom edge, pushed at the head and foot of the spine. Square, bound with some reading wear, former owner's signature inside the front board, clean otherwise. The first complete one-volume edition that brings together Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, and Clea. The Modern Library named the quartet as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. (Inventory #: 8355)