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Lot 135
Sale 6331 - The Collected Library: Summer Reading
Lots Open
Jul 31, 2025
Lots Close
Aug 13, 2025
Timed Online / Chicago
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$800 -
1,200
Price Realized
$520
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Lot Description
DURRELL, Lawrence (1912-1990). [Alexandria Quartet]. Justine. 1957. -- Balthazar. 1958. -- Mountolive. 1958. -- Clea. 1960. London: Faber and Faber.
Together, 4 volumes, 8vo. Original cloth (slight lean to a few spines); dust jackets (chipping mostly at spine ends, two price-clipped, spines toned).
FIRST EDITIONS of Durrell's highly acclaimed tetralogy, set before and during the Second World War. "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).
This lot is located in Chicago.