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1 Lawrence Durrell Between the Covers

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3 DURRELL, Lawrence writing as Charles Norden. Panic Spring. New York: Covici-Friede (1937). First American edition. Near fine in a soiled, good only dustwrapper with several shallow chips and a longish tear on the rear panel. # $1,200 DURRELL, Lawrence writing as Charles Norden. Panic Spring. New York: Covici-Friede (1937). First American edition. A bookplate on the front pastedown, near fine lacking the dustwrapper. # $750 Delta, April 1938 (formerly The Booster). Paris: Delta Magazine. Some dampstaining else a near very good copy of this very uncommon periodical, a country club newsletter the Villa Seurat group appropriated for their own artistic uses, edited by Alfred Perles, Lawrence Durrell, and Henry Miller and issued as *The Booster*. This issue, which was the first to appear as *Delta* features work by Durrell, Perles, Kay Boyle, Antonia White, Dylan Thomas, and several others. # $300 (Anthology) DURRELL, Lawrence, Ruthven Todd, Patrick Evans, Rayner Heppenstall, Edgar Foxall, and Oswell Blakeston. Proems. London: The Fortune Press (1938). First edition. Fine in fine original unprinted watermarked white laid paper dustwrapper. A beautiful copy, seldom found in jacket. # $1,250

4 GOODLAND, John and Nicholas Moore, editors. Seven No.1 Summer Taunton: John Goodland and Nicholas Moore Wrappers. Modest age-toning, small stains, a very good copy in printed wrappers. Shortlived literary magazine, this issue includes contributions by Henry MIller ("The Brooklyn Bridge"), George Barker, Anais Nin, Frederic Prokosch, Ruthven Todd, Lawrence Durrell, and others. Signed twice by Prokosch at his contributions, changing the title of one poem, and noting that another was never reprinted. Scarce. # $300 Kingdom Come: The Magazine of WarTime Oxford. Volume 1, Number 4. Oxford: Printed and Published for the Proprietors of Kingdom Come, 175 Banbury Road, Oxford, by the Alden Press (Oxford) Ltd Quarto. Illustrated wrapper by Baptista Gilliat-Smith. Small tears to the yapped edges, and a little soiling, a very good or better issue. Includes contributions by Lawrence Durrell, Frederic Prokosch, Ruthven Todd, L.A.G. Strong, Denys Sutton, and others. # $150 (Anthology). Experimental Review. Number Three. September Woodstock, New York: Experimental Review Orange glazed wrappers. Slight flaking at the extremities, else a nice near fine copy of this short-lived and (as the title implies) experimental magazine with contributions from Kenneth Patchen, Anaïs Nin, Lawrence Durrell, Henry Miller, and three early appearances by the 21-year old Robert Duncan, who was living on a commune in Woodstock at the time of publication. *Bertholf* C # $125 MOORE, Nicholas, Edited by. New Poetry. (London): Fortune Press (1944). First edition. Stapled illustrated wrappers. A bit of sunning at the edges, a very good copy. Includes poetry by Lawrence Durrell, Howard Nemerov, Ruthven Todd, and others. # $65

5 MOORE, Nicholas and Douglas Newton, edited by. Atlantic Anthology: New Voices. London: The Fortune Press (1945). First edition. Just about fine in generally worn, about very good dustwrapper. Copyright date hand-correct to Incudes work by Saul Bellow. Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, Lawrence Durrell, Allen Tate, and many others. # $100 DURRELL, Lawrence. Zero and Asylum In The Snow: Two Excursions Into Reality. Berkeley, California: George Leite New edition. Good with a piece missing from the top of the front board, water tideline along the top edges of both boards, in a good dustwrapper with a similar water tideline, soiling, chip at the top front corner. # $25 DURRELL, Lawrence. On Seeming to Presume. London: Faber and Faber (1948). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper but for a short tear. # $150 DURRELL, Lawrence. On Seeming To Presume. London: Faber and Faber (1948). First edition. Near fine with a little foxing on the front endpapers in a near fine dustwrapper. # $90

6 (Anthology) (T.S. Eliot, Conrad Aiken, W.H. Auden, Lawrence Durrell, Wyndham Lewis, Marianne Moore). T.S. Eliot: A Symposium. Chicago: Henry Regnery Company (1949). First edition. Compiled by Richard March and Tambimuttu. Near fine with offsetting on the end papers, a newspaper article tipped to the front fly and previous owner's inscription in near fine, lightly worn dustwrapper. # $20 DURRELL, Lawrence. A Key to Modern Poetry. London: Peter Nevill (1952). First edition. Fine in very good dustwrapper with a chip near the crown, and a little soiling. # $100 DURRELL, Lawrence. A Key to Modern British Poetry. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press (1952). First American edition. Fine in good, spinetanned dustwrapper with some chipping and tears and a few small, light stains to the front panel. # $75 ROYIDIS, Emmanuel. Lawrence Durrell. Pope Joan. London: Derek Verschoyle (1954). First English edition. Translated from the Greek by Lawrence Durrell. Fine in very good dustwrapper with a small chip (which is present, but detached). # $45

7 (DURRELL, Lawrence) ROYIDIS, Emmanuel. Pope Joan. New York: E.P. Dutton (1961). First American edition. Translated from the Greek by Lawrence Durrell. Fine in fine, price-clippe dustwrapper with a faded spine. # $45 DURRELL, Lawrence. The Tree of Idleness. London: Faber & Faber Ltd Uncorrected proof. Name partially erased on the front front wrap, else near fine in wrappers. Scarce in this format. # $400 DURRELL, Lawrence. The Tree of Idleness. London: Faber & Faber Ltd First edition. Fine in price-clipped, else fine dustwrapper. # $65 DURRELL, Lawrence. Balthazar. London: Faber and Faber (1958). First edition. Near fine in lightly rubbed wrappers. # $30

8 CAMPBELL, Roy. Hommage A Roy Campbell. (Paris): Editions De La Licorne First edition. Text in French. Translated by Armand Guibert. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Fine in illustrated card cover. Contributors include: F. -J. Temple, Rob Lyle, Richard Aldington, Lawrence Durrell, Edith Sitwell, Wyndham Lewis, and many more. # $35 DURRELL, Lawrence, and Alfred Perles. Art and Outrage: A Correspondence about Henry Miller Between Lawrence Durrell and Alfred Perles with Intermissions by Henry Miller. London: Putnam First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $65 (MILLER, Henry) DURRELL, Lawrence, and Alfred Perles. Art and Outrage: A Correspondence about Henry Miller Between Lawrence Durrell and Alfred Perles with Intermissions by Henry Miller. New York: E.P. Dutton Uncorrected proof of the first American edition consisting of unbound folded and gathered signatures laid into the finished dustwrapper. Fine. Review Slip laid in. # $250 (MILLER, Henry) DURRELL, Lawrence, and Alfred Perles. Art and Outrage: A Correspondence about Henry Miller Between Lawrence Durrell and Alfred Perles with Intermissions by Henry Miller. New York: E.P. Dutton and Company First American edition. Fine in near fine lightly soiled dustwrapper. # $30

9 DURRELL, Lawrence. Bitter Lemons. London: Faber and Faber Limited (1959). First edition. Very good with previous owner's signature on the halftitle page and the lamination peeling from the wrappers. # $25 DURRELL, Lawrence. Stiff Upper Lip: Life Among the Diplomats. New York: E.P. Dutton First American edition. Illustrated by Nicolas Bentley. Sunning at the edges of the boards, else about fine in lightly rubbed, very good or better dustwrapper. # $25 DURRELL, Lawrence. The Black Book. Paris: Olympia Press (1959). Second edition, revised. Paperback with dustwrapper. New Preface by the author. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $125 DURRELL, Lawrence. The Black Book. Paris: Olympia Press (1959). Second revised edition. Paperback with dustwrapper. New Preface by the author. Perfectbound wrapper slightly loose at spine, but sound, one page torn, else a fine copy. # $75

10 DURRELL, Lawrence. The Black Book. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co First American edition. Near fine in a very good dustwrapper with modest wear. # $50 DURRELL, Lawrence. The Black Book. New York: Pocket Books (1962). First paperback edition. Mass market paperback. Very good plus with a front corner crease and spine crease. # $10 MILLER, Henry. The Henry Miller Reader. (New York): A New Directions Book (1959). First edition. Edited with an introduction by Lawrence Durrell. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $65 DURRELL, Lawrence. Clea. London: Faber and Faber (1960). First edition. A trifle foxed, still very near fine in near fine dustwrapper with a little soiling, fourth and final volume of *The Alexandria Quartet.* # $200

11 DURRELL, Lawrence. Clea. New York: E.P. Dutton First American edition. Fine in slightly spine-sunned, very good or better dustwrapper with no chips or tears. The fourth and final volume of *The Alexandria Quartet.* # $75 DURRELL, Lawrence. Collected Poems. New York: E.P. Dutton Fine in fine dustwrapper with light wear to the spinal extremities. # $45 DURRELL, Lawrence. Sappho. London: Faber and Faber (1960). First edition. Foredge and edges of some leaves foxed, near fine in slightly spine-faded, else near fine dustwrapper. A play in verse. # $50 DURRELL, Lawrence. Clea. New York: Pocket Books (1961). First thus. Mass market paperback. Very good with light edgewear. Giant Cardinal Edition, GC-767. # $12

12 PERLES, Alfred. My Friend Lawrence Durrell: An Intimate Memoir on the author of *The Alexandrian Quartet*. (Middlesex): Scorpion Press (1961). First edition. Bibliography by Bernard Stone. Fine in fine dustwrapper with light tanning to the spine. # $35 (Anthology) BARR, Beryl and Barbara Turner Sachs, editors. The Artists' and Writers' Cookbook. Sausalito: Contact Editions (1961). First edition. Quarto. Foreword by Alice B. Toklas. Fine in a lightly worn, near fine slipcase. An attractively produced volume gathering recipes from an all-star cast of writers and artists including Harper Lee, James A. Michener, Robert Graves, Evan S. Connell, Jr., Katherine Anne Porter, Lawrence Durrell, Man Ray, Conrad Aiken, Lillian Hellman, Caresse Crosby, Isak Dinesen, William Styron, Erskine Caldwell, James Merrill, Marcel Duchamp, Georges Simenon, Louis Auchincloss, Pearl Buck, Anthony Powell, James Jones, Kenneth Patchen, Richard Wilbur, Beauford Delany, Upton Sinclair, Frances Parkinson Keyes, John Knowles, Evan Hunter, Paul Bowles, Marianne Moore, and dozens of others. # $65 (Cuisine) ROUFF, Marcel. The Passionate Epicure: La Vie et la Passion de Dodin-Bouffant, Gourmet. London: Faber and Faber (1961). First English edition. Translated by Claude. Preface by Lawrence Durrell. Illustrated by Charles Mozley. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy, and uncommon thus. # $100

13 DURRELL, Lawrence, introduced by. The Fifth Antiquarian Book Fair: A Handlist of Exhibitors. London: The National Book League First edition, June, Handlist of exhibitors introduced by Lawrence Durrell. Fine copy. # $50 (Anthology) DUTHIE, Eric, edited by. Wild Company: Encounters Between Man and Beast. London: Heinemann (1962). First edition. Line on the copyright page neatly crossed out, else fine in fine dustwrapper. Contributors include: Joy Adamson, Gerald Durrell, Gavin Maxwell, Karen Blixen, Sir Julian Huxley, and "Elephant" Bill. # $45 DURRELL, Lawrence and Henry Miller. A Private Correspondence. New York: E.P. Dutton First edition. Edited by George Wickes. Very good in pictorial wrappers housed in a very good slipcase with a floral design paper cover. Many of the signatures are loose. # $50 DURRELL, Lawrence and Henry Miller. A Private Correspondence. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc First edition. Lacking the dustwrapper, some soiling and a sunned spine thus near fine. # $15

14 DURRELL, Lawrence. Beccafico. La Licorne: Montpellier 1963). First edition. 16mo. Stapled printed pink wrappers. Bottom corner a trifle bumped, still fine. One of 150 numbered copies Signed by the author. # $200 DURRELL, Lawrence. The Dark Labyrinth. New York: Pocket Books (1963). First edition thus. Mass market paperback. Tiny chip on the bottom of the rear cover affecting the spine, else fine. # $10 DURRELL, Lawrence. La Descente du Styx. (Montpellier): La Murene First edition. Small quarto. Printed wrappers. Fine. One of 250 numbered copies Signed by the author. # $175 DURRELL, Lawrence. Selected Poems London: Faber and Faber Uncorrected proof. Printed wrappers. Tiny tear else fine. # $250

15 DURRELL, Lawrence. Selected Poems, London: Faber and Faber (1964). First edition. Near fine in wrappers with slight yellowing to spine. # $30 DURRELL, Lawrence. Acte. London: Faber and Faber (1965). Uncorrected proof. Printed brown wrappers. Fine. An uncommon format of this play. # $450 (Anthology) GIRODIAS, Maurice, edited by. The Olympia Reader. New York: Grove Press (1965). First edition. Fine in near fine, lightly soiled dustwrapper with some light wear to the ends of the spine and edges of the panels. Contributors include: Henry Miller, Paul Ableman, Beauregard de Farniente, Marcus Van Heler, James Sherwood, J.P. Donleavy, Lawrence Durrell, Harriet Daimler, Charles Henri Ford, Samuel Beckett, John Cleland, Pauline Reage, Ataullah Mardaan, Jean Genet, Rank Harris, Henry Jones, Marquis de Sade, William S. Burroughs, Philip O'Connor, Maurice Girodias, Hamiltaon Drake, We We Meng, Chester Himes, Raymond Queneau, Jean Genet, Greagory Corso and Harriet Daimler. # $45

16 DOUGLAS, Keith. Alamein to Zem Zem. London: Faber and Faber (1966). Uncorrected proof (apparently intended for the American edition). Illustrated by the author. The first edition was original published in 1946, and then reprinted by Faber with a new introduction by Lawrence Durrell in Edited by John Waller, G.S. Fraser, and J.C. Hall. Introduction by Lawrence Durrell. Wrappers. Name of the American publisher, Chilmark, marked over on the front cover, else near fine. Account of the poet's wartime activites in the Middle East, before he was killed at Normandy at the age of 24. # $200 DURRELL, Lawrence. Sauve Qui Peut. London: Faber and Faber (1966). Uncorrected proof. A little sunning at the edges, else fine in printed wrappers. # $150 DURRELL, Lawrence. Sauve Qui Peut. London: Faber and Faber (1966). First edition. A thin faded strip at the spine ends else fine in a near fine dustwrapper with one short tear at each end of the spine. # $40 DURRELL, Lawrence. Sauve Qui Peut. New York: E.P. Dutton First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $20

17 DURRELL, Lawrence. The Ikons and Other Poems. London: Faber and Faber (1966). Uncorrected proof. # $300 Fine in printed wrappers. GORDON, William A.. The Mind and Art of Henry Miller. Louisiana : Louisiana State University (1967). First edition. Foreword by Lawrence Durrell. Advanced copy with publisher's slip laid in. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with small chip on top front edge. # $50 DURRELL, Lawrence. Collected Poems. London: Faber and Faber (1968). New and revised edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with slight soiling on the rear panel. A fresh and bright copy. # $65 FRASER, G.S.. Lawrence Durrell: A Critical Study. With a bibliography by Alan G. Thomas. London: Faber and Faber (1968). Uncorrected proof. Printed wrappers. Name of the American publisher crossed over on the front wrap, else fine. # $300

18 FRASER, G.S.. Lawrence Durrell. London: Faber and Faber (1968). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $35 FRASER, G.S.. Lawrence Durrell. London: Faber and Faber (1968). Revised edition. Fine in wrappers. # $18 DURRELL, Lawrence. Tunc. London: Faber and Faber (1968). Uncorrected proof. Short tear on front wrap and a touch of age-toning, else near fine in printed wrappers. # $100 DURRELL, Lawrence. Tunc. London: Faber and Faber (1968). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper and fine wraparound band. # $75

19 DURRELL, Lawrence. Tunc. London: Faber and Faber (1968). First edition. Light offsetting to the endpapers, else fine in fine dustwrapper. # $25 DURRELL, Lawrence. Spirit of Place: Letters and Essays on Travel. London: Faber and Faber (1969). Uncorrected proof. Printed wrappers. Fine. # $75 DURRELL, Lawrence. Spirit of Place: Letters and Essays on Travel. London: Faber and Faber (1969). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a touch of age-toning. # $45 (Anthology) HALPERN, Daniel, editor. Antaeus. Edited by Daniel Halpern. I, Summer Tangier, Morocco: Antaeus The first issue of this important literary magazine. Covers a little dust-soiled, else fine copy, in wrappers. One of 1000 copies printed. With contributions by John Berryman, Janes Bowles, Paul Bowles, Lawrence Durrell, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, John Fowles, Thom Gunn, W.S. Merwin, Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams, among others. # $75

20 DURRELL, Lawrence. Nunquam. London: Faber and Faber (1970). Uncorrected proof. One leaf cut slightly oversize, else fine in printed wrappers. # $100 DURRELL, Lawrence. Nunquam. London: Faber and Faber (1970). First editions. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author and dated in the year of publication. A beautiful copy. # $175 DURRELL, Lawrence. Nunquam. London: Faber and Faber (1970). First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a little wrinkling to the lamination of the rear panel. # $75 DURRELL, Lawrence. Nunquam. New York: E.P. Dutton First American edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper. # $45

21 (Anthology) BYRNE, Evelyn B. and Otto M. Penzler, editors. Attacks of Taste. New York: Gotham Book Mart First edition. Fine in very good original unprinted dustwrapper with foxing on the rear panel. One of 500 numbered copies Signed by the editors. Nice anthology about what authors read in their youth, with contributions by W.H. Auden, Paul Bowles, Malcolm Cowley, Robert Creeley, Lawrence Durrell, R. Buckminster Fuller, Allen Ginsberg, Christopher Isherwood, Rockwell Kent, Jack Kerouac, Henry Miller, Marianne Moore, Anaïs Nin, Sean O'Faolain, William Saroyan, J.R.R. Tolkien, Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams, and many others. # $85 DURRELL, Lawrence. The Red Limbo Lingo: A Poetry Notebook. London: Faber and Faber Uncorrected proof. Fine in printed wrappers. # $85 DURRELL, Lawrence. The Plant-Magic Man. Santa Barbara: Capra Press First edition. 12mo. Decorated papercovered boards. Slight soiling on the titlepage, else fine. One of 200 numbered copies Signed by Durrell. *Yes! Capra Chapbook* Number 5. # $75

22 DURRELL, Lawrence. Vega and Other Poems. London: Faber and Faber (1973). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $50 GRINDEA, Miron, edited by. Adam: International Review Nos London: Adam International Review First edition. Fine in wrappers. Includes work by Stephen Spender, Cyril Connolly, Robert Lowell, Lawrence Durrell, Others, # $40 DURRELL, Lawrence. Monsieur or The Prince of Darkness. London: Faber and Faber (1974). First edition. Tiny tear on the front fly, else fine in lightly rubbed, near fine dustwrapper with a small ink stroke on the front panel. # $40 DURRELL, Lawrence. The Big Supposer: Lawrence Durrell, A Dialogue with Marc Alyn. New York: Grove Press, Inc. (1974). First Evergreen edition. Translated from the French by Francine Barker. Illustrated with paintings by Lawrence Durrell. Fine in wrappers. # $14

23 DURRELL, Lawrence. Blue Thirst. Santa Barbara: Capra Press Paperback original. Tape remnant on front wrap, else fine. # $35 DURRELL, Lawrence. Sicilian Carousel. London: Faber and Faber (1977). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Surprisingly uncommon travel title. # $50 DURRELL, Lawrence. Livia or Buried Alive. London: Faber and Faber (1978). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $50 DURRELL, Lawrence. Livia or Buried Alive. New York: Viking (1978). First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $25

24 DURRELL, Lawrence. The Greek Islands. New York: Viking (1978). First American edition printed from English sheets. Quarto. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a couple tiny tears at the crown, and a faint crease on the front flap. Attractive picture book with extensive text by Durrell. # $25 (Anthology) MILLER, Henry, et. al.. The Capra Chapbook Anthology. (Santa Barbara): Capra Press First edition. Near fine in lightly soiled wrappers. Contributors include Henry Miller, Faye Kicknosway, Lawrence Durrell, Ross Macdonald, Ray Bradbury, Victory Perera, Colin Wilson, James Houston, William Nolan, Ursula Le Guin and Mark Vinz. # $35 DURRELL, Lawrence. Collected Poems. London: Faber and Faber (1980). Completly revised edition. Fine in a price clipped dustwrapper with a wrinkle at the top of the spine, else fine. # $20 MACNIVEN, Ian S. And Harry T. Moore (eds.). Literary Lifelines: The Richard Aldington-Lawrence Durrell Correspondence. New York: Viking Press (1981). First American edition. Fine in a dustwrapper with a little age toning else fine. # $25

25 DURRELL, Lawrence. Constance or Solitary Practices. New York: Viking (1982). First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $20 DURRELL, Lawrence. Sebastian or Ruling Passion. London: Faber and Faber (1983). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $45 MACNIVEN, Ian S., edited by. The (New Durrell-Miller Letters: York): New Directions (1988). First edition. Light bumping at the crown else fine in fine dustwrapper with light bumping to the extremities. Advance Review copy with review materials laid in. # $35 DURRELL, Gerald. Marrying Off Mother. New York: Arcade Press (1992). First edition. Uncorrected Proof. Fine in wrappers. # $35

26 (MILLER, Henry). Craig Peter Standish, editor. Henry Miller: A Book of Tributes, (Orlando, Florida): StandishBooks (1994). First trade edition. Compiled, edited, introduced and published by Craig Peter Standish. Thick octavo. Illustrated. Red cloth gilt. Separate contents pamphlet, and prospectus laid in. Boards a trifle soiled, else fine. One of 867 copies (out of a total edition of 1000 copies). Without the "Angels and Patron Saints" page. Contributions by Lawrence Durrell, Erica Jong, John Lennon, Norman Mailer, Anais Nin, John Cowper Powys, William Carlos Williams, among many others. # $50 DURRELL, Lawrence. White Eagles Over Serbia. New York: Arcade Publishing Uncorrected proof of the first edition from this publisher, first published in Fine in glossy wrappers. # $25 BOWKER, Gordon. Through the Dark Labyrinth: A Biography of Lawrence Durrell. New York: St. Martin's Press (1997). Uncorrected proof. Fine in glossy wrappers. Publisher's prospectus laid in. # $20

27 BOWKER, Gordon. Through the Dark Labyrinth: A Biography of Lawrence Durrell. New York: St. Martin's Press (1997). First edition. Slightly cocked else fine in fine dustwrapper with minor bumping to the extremities of the book and jacket. # $30 BOTTING, Douglas. Gerald Durrell: The Authorized Biography. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc. (1999). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $28

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