BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH. Previous owner's ex-libris to front free endpaper. Mild edgewear. Very tiny bump to front upper corner. Dustjacket very good minus. Lightly sunned spine. A 1" closed tear to rear upper jacket edge. Small nick to front panel. Moderate shelfwear. Gilt lettering debossed to spine of black, cloth-covered boards. Clean, tight, bright. 318 pp. By the author of Justine, Balthazar and Cleo. Mountolive is the third in The Alexandria Quartet series by the British ex-patriot. Modern love is the pervading theme of the series. The book is written in a "third-person narrative form to explore motives rather than emotions, facts rather than fantasies," (rear flap). "After all the imperatives from which there are laugh till it hurts, and hurt till you laugh"."The young climb up the old, and then the old climb down the young.". Seller Inventory # 1271

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Title: MOUNTOLIVE

Publisher: Dutton, New York

Publication Date: 1959

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Minus

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