Durrell Charles (28 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Signed By The Photographer On The Ffep (First Free Endpaper). A Near Fine Book With A Crease To The Lower Front Corner. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Very Good-.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 235 pp. Light edge and corner wear.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed by the photographer/author to the FFEP. Internally clean, unmarked, crease-free spine, very light corner wear. BP/Washington,DC. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Limited Edition. Paperback 1971. Limited edition 43 of 100. Flat covers. Clean & tight book. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with tracking next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref 343.3. 10 POETS 10 POEMS. Contains ten previously unpublished poems: W. H. Auden "Old Peoples Home", Charles Causley "A Literary Scandal", Laurence (Lawrence) Durrell "Last Heard Of ", Ted Hughes "Crow's Elephant Totem Song", Ted Joans "Toymaker", Christopher Logue "White Ghetto Man", W. S. Merwin " Their Week", Louis Simpson " The Mannequins", J. Wain " Alone", Eric W. White "Arrival". Collected by O.G.Bradley.

Condition: good. First? Edition. First? Printing. 28 cm, 17, wraps, illus., bibliography. Rand Corporation R-1311-ARPA. This report was prepared for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in the course of a continuous study of Soviet research on the production, diagnostics, and application of high-current relativistic charged-particle beams.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very good in paper-covered boards with shelf wear and wear at the spine extremities and offsetting on the endpapers and very good dust jacket with chips at the spine extremities, faded spine, crease and relatively light edgewear.

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Modern engelsk lyrik i urval och tolkning av Göran Bengtson och Göran Printz-Pċhlson. Bo Cavefors Bokförlag 1959. 64 s. Trċdäftad. Lätt kantnött omslag. Recensionsstämpel i nederkant pċ sista sidan. 15 x 14 cm.*Omslag av Yngve Sebastian.[#\116323].

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First American Edition. 372 Pp. Very Light Green Cloth Stamped In Red And Dark Green. First American Printing. Near Fine, A Few Tiny Foxing Marks On Top Edges Of Boards, No Foxing To Endpapers Or Contents, No Marks.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. Henry Moore (Front Cover), Ceri Richards (Three centrefold lithographs) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol. 3, No. 11 - September-October 1947 - the eleventh issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu - complete with three pages of colour lithographs by Ceri Richards - a centrefold double page colour lithograph, and two single page lithographs, inspired by and incorporating the Dylan Thomas poem "The force that through the green fuse drives the flower", plus a colour cover, with Lyre Bird design, by Henry Moore. ***Very good in the original thin colour-illustrated stapled card covers. The edges of the covers show some wear commensurate with age and handling and are slightly creased and rubbed, but the front cover illustration is bright and clean. The back cover is slightly discoloured marked and foxed at the edges (being a cream background), and very slightly foxed at the edges. Tiny crease to the bottom corner of the front cover. Staples rusted as usual. Spine tight. Internally also very good with no inscriptions. Small marks to inside of front cover and contents page, otherwise interior pages clean. The top corner tips of the last few pages are slightly creased. No tears. ***72 pages (plus PL adverts on inside of front cover, with facsimile of handwritten poem by Keith Douglas on inside of back cover). 246mm x 188mm. ***Contents: Keith Douglas: The Hand, John Anderson, Leukothea; Ronald Bottrall: Elegiacs; Bernard Spencer: Out of Sleep; Anne Ridler: Views of the North Coast; Patrick Evans: Christmas, Great Britain, 1941, Green Grass Growing; James Reeves: A Fairy Tale; Introspection; Lawrence Durrell: In the Garden of the Villa Cleobolus; Kathleen Raine: Absolution; George Barker: Memorial Inscription; Keidyrch Rhys: 48 Hours at Tenby; Rainer Maria Rilke: The Duinese Elegies: The First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth Elegy; Edith Sitwell: From a Canticle of the Rose: Hymn to Venus; George Scurfield: Song - The Bitter Mangoes; Hugh Gordon Porteus: The Oracles, Three Things; G. S. Fraser: The Death of My Grandmother, Song for Music; Pierre Jean Jouve: When Glory's Spring Returns, From Sueur De Sang; Stephen Coates: There was an Empty Place in the Grass; You are all Beautiful, who Fill my Terrible Dreams; John Heath-Stubbs: The Poetic Achievement of Charles Williams; Margaret Diggle: The Mathematics of the Soul. ***POINTS OF VIEW (Reviews): The Greek Anthology by Charles Williams; Auden up-to-date: by G. S. Fraser; The State of Modern Criticism by Nicholas Moore; Four Quartets (T. S. Eliot) by Hugh Gordon Porteus; Two American, One English by Julian Symons; A World Within a War by Kathleen Raine. Cover by Henry Moore. Lithographs by Ceri Richards. ***Vol. 3. No. 11 - the eleventh issue of the original first series of this renowned poetry magazine, edited by Tambimuttu, published in the early post-war period. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, and the publications of Poetry London. ***This is the first of the postwar issues of Poetry (London) magazine, published after a three year hiatus from 1944 to 1947. Issue 11 was the third of the series to include specially commissioned lithographs, and the first with expanded content of 72 pages. ***A scarce Poetry London first edition title, very hard to find intact with the original colour lithographs, which are often removed for framing. A very desirable issue. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American Edition. A sharp copy of the First American Edition in a bright and attractive jacket with minor wear. Somewhat uncommon. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. No. 4/5 (double issue), softcover issue. Tall octavo. 191pp. Unprinted wrappers with integral dust jacket (tipped-on inside the front cover), printed on several paper stocks. Jacket and early (exposed) foredges foxed, and wrappers soiled, middle 20 or so pages (on tan stock) with light but unobtrusive staining, sound and near very good. (Without the fragile outer jacket and sealed flowers, but we are unsure if they were issued with the softcover edition.) Contributions by William Wantling, Charles Bukowski, Diane Di Prima, Denise Levertov, Lawrence Durrell, Michael Hamburger, Douglas Blazek, d. a. levy, Thomas Merton, Robert Bly, Jackson Mac Low, Jean Cocteau, and many others. Also prints an "Homage to Kenneth Patchen" with contributions by Bro. Antoninus, Allen Ginsberg, Hugh MacDiarmid, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Henry Miller, and others. A cool magazine, "Handset, Mostly, & Hand Bound At Loujon's Desert Workshop Printery, Arizona U.S.A. .".

Montpellier : Directrice : Odette de Marquez. Rédaction : Frédéric-Jacques Temple. Un volume 16,5x23cm broché, (52) pages sur papier fort, teintées, illustrées de hors texte par Jean-Raymond Bessil - bon état - Livres.

FIVE ISSUES. Five volumes, octavos (20 x 14cm). Publisher's card wraps lettered to uppers. Undated but circa 1951-52. Some toning to covers. Very good.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. Henry Moore (Front Cover), Ceri Richards (Three centrefold lithographs) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol. 3, No. 11 - September-October 1947 - the eleventh issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu - complete with three pages of colour lithographs by Ceri Richards - a centrefold double page colour lithograph, and two single page lithographs, inspired by and incorporating the Dylan Thomas poem "The force that through the green fuse drives the flower", plus a colour cover, with Lyre Bird design, by Henry Moore. ***Very good in the original thin colour-illustrated stapled card covers. The edges of the covers show some wear commensurate with age and handling and are slightly creased and rubbed, but the front cover illustration is bright and clean. The back cover is slightly discoloured marked and foxed at the edges (being a cream background). The bottom corner of the page block is slightly creased throughout. Staples rusted as usual. Spine tight. Internally also very good with no inscriptions - just a small black contemporaneous bookseller's label to bottom of first page: 'G. R. Downing, Bookseller, Fore Street, St. Ives, C'. Pages sporadically lightly foxed. The top corner of the first few pages is lightly creased. No tears. Lower corners of most pages also lightly creased. The three pages of colour lithographs, including the centrefold, are bright and clean, and are printed on high grade cartridge paper, printed from the original stones by the Baynard Press, whereas the text of the magazine is on normal thick paper (not the thin postwar economy paper as used in comparative Issue No. 9). ***72 pages (plus PL adverts on inside of front cover, with facsimile of handwritten poem by Keith Douglas on inside of back cover). 246mm x 188mm. ***Contents: Keith Douglas: The Hand, John Anderson, Leukothea; Ronald Bottrall: Elegiacs; Bernard Spencer: Out of Sleep; Anne Ridler: Views of the North Coast; Patrick Evans: Christmas, Great Britain, 1941, Green Grass Growing; James Reeves: A Fairy Tale; Introspection; Lawrence Durrell: In the Garden of the Villa Cleobolus; Kathleen Raine: Absolution; George Barker: Memorial Inscription; Keidyrch Rhys: 48 Hours at Tenby; Rainer Maria Rilke: The Duinese Elegies: The First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth Elegy; Edith Sitwell: From a Canticle of the Rose: Hymn to Venus; George Scurfield: Song - The Bitter Mangoes; Hugh Gordon Porteus: The Oracles, Three Things; G. S. Fraser: The Death of My Grandmother, Song for Music; Pierre Jean Jouve: When Glory's Spring Returns, From Sueur De Sang; Stephen Coates: There was an Empty Place in the Grass; You are all Beautiful, who Fill my Terrible Dreams; John Heath-Stubbs: The Poetic Achievement of Charles Williams; Margaret Diggle: The Mathematics of the Soul. ***POINTS OF VIEW (Reviews): The Greek Anthology by Charles Williams; Auden up-to-date: by G. S. Fraser; The State of Modern Criticism by Nicholas Moore; Four Quartets (T. S. Eliot) by Hugh Gordon Porteus; Two American, One English by Julian Symons; A World Within a War by Kathleen Raine. Cover by Henry Moore. Lithographs by Ceri Richards. ***Vol. 3. No. 11 - the eleventh issue of the original first series of this renowned poetry magazine, edited by Tambimuttu, published in the early post-war period. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, and the publications of Poetry London. ***This is the first of the postwar issues of Poetry (London) magazine, published after a three year hiatus from 1944 to 1947. Issue 11 was the third of the series to include specially commissioned lithographs, and the first with expanded content of 72 pages. ***A scarce Poetry London first edition title, very hard to find intact with the original colour lithographs, which are often removed for framing. A very desirable issue. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Condition: Near fine. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. First Edition. Lawrence Durrell's very uncommon second novel, written under the pseudonym of Charles Norden. Presumed publisher's mock-up proof with plain unprinted heavy card wrappers glued to the book block which is fine, fresh, tight and unread. A unique state of the First Edition. 8vo. 372 pp To distance himself from the commercial failure of his first novel, Lawrence Durrell adopted the pseudonym Charles Norden for his 1937 book, Panic Spring. The name was a tribute to the character Van Norden from his friend Henry Miller's novel, Tropic of Cancer. This alias allowed Durrell to experiment with "mass market" writing while simultaneously developing the distinct, visceral voice that would later define his literary fame.

First edition of the author's second novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Heil Anthony, from LarryÂDurrell, 'old hat new look' 1973." In very good condition. Uncommon signed and inscribed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. First Edition Signed by Lawrence Durrell on a tipped-in leaf. A very good or better copy in beige cloth, (discreet bookplate to the rear endpaper), red titles to the spine in a bright, fresh pictorial dustwrapper with some light use. 8vo. 372 pp. The uncommon second book by the author of The Alexandria Quartet under the pseudonym of Charles Norden. Rare example. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine-. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine-. First Printing. First American Edition of Lawrence Durrell's uncommon second novel, set on an imaginary Greek island reminiscent of Corfu, to which Durrell and his young wife had relocated from England in 1935. Crown 8vo (203 x 129mm): 372pp. Publisher's beige cloth, spine and upper cover lettered in red and stamped with green leaf device, top edge stained green; illustrated dust jacket priced $2.50. About Fine (top edge mildly faded, spine very lightly toned), tightly bound and virtually pristine (lightly read, if at all). About Fine jacket (archivally mended short closed tears to back spine and flap folds), crisp and bright. Potter & Whiting 14. Originally published the same year, by Faber & Faber in London; the publisher suggested the pseudonym, because Durrell's conventionally autobiographical first novel, Pied Piper of Lovers, had been a failure. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).

Hardcover. 1st American Edition. First printing of the American edition of Lawrence Durell's second book, written under the pseudonym of "Charles Norden". Near fine condition with a very good dustjacket. The interior of the book has some slight age toning to endpapers and the light tan cloth shows a few smudges of dirt but the book is otherwise flawless. The jacket has mild shelfwear to include tiny 1/8-inch chips along the lower edge of the front panel and the loss of the top 1/4-inch of the jacket's spine. The canary yellow back panel shows a modest amount of general dirt picked up from normal usage over the decades. An uncommon Durrell work, difficult to find in any semi-decent dustjacket.

Condition: Good. 12mo. 372 pp., Beige Cloth, Very Good with some staining to covers & end papers. First Durrell book published by Faber, who suggested a pseudonym because Pied Piper of Lovers had been a failure. (Brigham, p. 2)Provenance: Collection of Chiefly First Editions by Lawrence Durrell, most signed presentation copies, inscribed to his friend Jeremy Mallinson. Mallinson, was Gerald Durrell's right-hand man from the early days of the Jersey Zoo (now Durrell Wildlife Park).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First American edition. A bookplate on the front pastedown, near fine lacking the dustwrapper.

372 pp. 8vo. Publisher's light grey cloth in dust jacket. First American edition. A few smudges to cloth; book and jacket spines sunned. Very minor fraying at the top and bottom of the spine of the jacket. Quite attractive, and much better than usually found. A very scarce book; the U.K. edition is virtually unobtainable in jacket.

First Edition. HOW TO TALK DIRTY AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE, Playboy / HMH Publishing, 1963 & 1964, first edition, 6 volumes complete, vg to near fine copies. Also contains original contributions by Jack Finney, Charles Beaumont, Fredric Brown, Aldous Huxley, Ray Bradbury, Lawrence Durrell, Robert Bloch, Ben Hecht, Philip Roth, Shel Silverstein, Ian Fleming (THE PROPERTY OF A LADY), James Baldwin, P. G. Wodehouse (BIFFEN'S MILLIONS), Ernest Hemingway, Arthur C. Clarke, et.al. (Postage guaranteed to be more than any amount noted).

[OREGON]. The four-page ALS dated September 6th, 1888, addressed to Mr. Edgar Ransdell and signed by Charles Durrell. Durrell tells of his riding after horses, working as a freighter, his intention to be a ranch hand, getting caught in a mud slide along the railroad in the Cascades, and a wild 4th of July in central Oregon. The letter reads as follows: "Dear Friend. I thought I would drop you a few lines as I have not heard from webfoot for some time. I am still on the bunchgrass. I did not go to Montannah [sic] last Spring as I expected. I went to Grant Co. and rode after horses about 3 weeks but my jam I got at Prineville kept me from riding. Then I went to freighting and I am still at it. I am going to freight about a month yet and then try working on a ranch, such as riding after horses, cattle, branding, farming & Jack of all trades and Master of none. I have got a job of the same man I have drove for this Summer. I jumped the game with C. D. Sennett as soon as we got to Arlington. He like to wore me out with them d.d cattle. I was up on guard three nights without sleep. That big slide in the Cascades caught us. It was about 2 o'clock in the morning and raining like h.l. I was on top of the train. It nearly spilt me off. I hung on you bet. It was mostly all mud. It slid down until you could not tell where the track was next day. I expect to stay here this winter at least and maybe longer. I have not been to but one dance since I left there. That was the 4th of July. It was a good one, you bet. It commenced the morning of the 4th with speaking. From that to a bet between the cowboys with pop guns at a target, then a prize fight, speaking again, then dinner, then riding by ladies bareback for a $10 bridle, then a fist & scull fight, then riding by the ladies. From that to the dance and wound up next morning with about 40 fights. Whiskey flowed free. It was a genuine wake up. Well, I will have to close as it is late. Write soon. Yours, Respect / Charles Durrell." Durrell was likely the Charles Durrell (1867-1941) who was born in Michigan. His death certificate issued in Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon, states that his occupation had been as a common laborer and doing odd jobs. His mention of "webfoot" refers to the residents of the rainy, wet regions of Oregon (think Oregon Ducks!), and the term "bunchgrass" refers to parts of eastern Oregon where native grasses grew, often used in early days as grazing lands. A great cowboy letter from Oregon. Four 5" x 8" sheets of paper with light fold lines else in fine condition.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. New York: Covici Friede, 1937. First American Edition. Octavo; 372pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.50 price intact; book in beige cloth with red lettering and blue ornamentation. Blue topstain. Jacket shows a few shallow closed tears and a bit of biopredation along bottom edge, darkening to spine with fading to spine lettering, and some general toning / smudging to surface. Boards a bit toned and worn along edges, with some faint spotting to front board and darkening to lightly-cocked spine. Spots of foxing / superficial staining to fore-edge. Endpapers a bit toned. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Durrell's second novel, written under pseudonym after the failure of his first novel, Pied Piper of Lovers.

First American edition. Near fine in a soiled, good only dust jacket with several shallow chips and a longish tear on the rear panel. Durrell's second novel emerged from his early years living on Corfu with his wife Nancy, though he disguised the location as the fictional island of Mavrodaphne. The publisher suggested the pseudonym after his autobiographical debut had flopped commercially. Written shortly after Durrell discovered Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer and began their famous literary friendship, the book experiments with modernist techniques by shifting between multiple expatriate characters, each chapter told in a distinct narrative voice. The novel depicts a community of British and Russian exiles living collaboratively outside conventional society during the period of mounting European political turmoil.