Search Results: the tree of idleness and by durrell lawrence

Faber, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket in good condition. First edition. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Dust jacket now in new archival sleeve. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

London: Faber & Faber. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo . We specialize in fine books in collectible condition. Orders are professionaly packaged and shipped promptly. M20 .

Faber & Faber, 1955. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1955. First Edition. 48 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Minor pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Some marks and staining to surfaces. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears, chipping and creasing. Some tanning and foxing to all surfaces, particularly to spine.

London: Faber and Faber, 1955. 48pp. Owners bookplate pasted to f.e.p. End-papers browned. Fine copy purple boards, gilt titles to spine. 1st edition. hardback. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

London, Faber & Faber Limited 1955.. 48pp. 8vo. Original cloth in dustwrapper, a near fine copy.. First edition.

London: Faber and Faber, 1955. First edition. Spine stamping slightly dulled, a touch of shelf rubbing, else fine in a bright dust jacket with a bit of light rubbing to the extremities.. 8vo, plum cloth.

London, Faber and Faber Ltd. [1959]., 1959. First edition (so stated). 8vo. Dust jacket (unclipped). Some darkening to the front endpapers (as seen common with this title). Very good. No signatures or bookplates.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included.

London: Faber and Faber, 1955. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 9" by 6". Not Stated. A first edition, first impression of Lawrence Durrell's collection of poems, including 'The Tree of Idleness'. The first edition, first impression of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Bookplate of L. A. Shilcof to the front free end paper, containing a reproduction of a print by Aubrey Beardsley. Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990) was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer. This is his fourth book of poems, containing twenty-four poems, including 'The Tree of Idleness', 'Cradle Song' and 'Orpheus'. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, cloth is very smart and bright. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean except for offsetting to the end papers. Dust wrapper is a little sunned to the spine, with chipping to the head of the spine and an amateur tape… Read More

London:: Faber and Faber,, [1940].. First edition.. publisher's cloth in dust jacket.. Just about fine in a very near fine jacket.. 8vo,.

London: Faber & Faber, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Cloth, near fine, gently rubbed at spine tips, and faintly foxed on endpapers. Dust jacket price-clipped; a little tanned along spine; some light wrinkling and a small chip along top edge. A nice copy, presents nicely in mylar.

London: Faber and Faber, 1955. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.48. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green typographic dust-jacket, priced at 8/6. Some offsetting to endpapers. Jacket a little toned to spine, with some rubbing and a couple of small closed tears. Near fine.

London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1955. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. 48pp, bound in burgundy cloth, spine lettering gilt. A fine copy in a so near fine dust jacket.

London: Faber & Faber, N.d. (ca. 1955). First Edition. Uncorrected proof in brown wrappers; 8vo. Proofs of this era quite uncommon. Name and the number 10 circled on the front cover, else about fine.

London, Faber and Faber, 1955. . First edition, first impression, signed and dated by the author with a signed note by him laid in; 8vo; publisher's purple cloth, titles to spine gilt, with the dust jacket, endpapers rather browned but a very good copy in the somewhat nicked, rubbed and sunned, price-clipped dust jacket missing a very small piece at the top of the spine panel. Boldly signed by Durrell on the title page in 1985, the signed note by him written on his printed calling card reads, ' Please Note I shall be in London May 15 for ten days, I hope at Alan Thomas' in case Gerry wishes to contact me yours Larry'.

London: Faber and Faber, 1955. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Soft cover. First Edition, Proof Copy, of this highly-regarded poetry collection by the author of, The Alexandria Quartet. A near fine copy with some light use, in the publisher's brown wrappers, printed in black, as issued. 8vo. 48 pp. Differs from the text of the Faber first edition, with 'Hanover Letters' rather than 'Letters In Darkness' on pp. 38. [From a comprehensive TBCL Durrell collection of first editions in superb condition].