Waller John Durrell Lawrence (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardback; light foxing to edge of pages, otherwise good in faded dustjacket. ; A selection of poetry first published in Cairo in 1943, with additional material. Maps; +xxxivpp. ; 254 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Book measures 24x16cm, 254pp, Limited to 100 numbered copies, Signed by Durrell, Victor Selwyn, John Waller, & Tambimuttu. Bound in original publishers brown cloth, with gilt title lettering. Binding in near fine condition. Dust jacket lightly rubbed. Jacket in good clean condition. Internally, pages clean, near fine. A very good clean copy. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. - First Edition - Signed by the Durrell, Selwyn, Waller & Tambimuttu - No. 43 of the first 100 numbered copies - Edges of covers lightly rubbed - Spine slightly cocked - Edges of text block heavily foxed and marked - Some internal foxing - Errata slip inside - Dustwrapper price-clipped and slightly rubbed and faded w/ some minor foxing and corners and spine head bumped - Book ow/ solid, clean and bright in untorn wrapper - xxxiv/254 pages.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Durrell, Lawrence). Waller, John and De Mauny, Eric (Edit.). MIDDLE EAST ANTHOLOGY OF PROSE AND VERSE. London: Lindsay Drummond, 1946. First Edition. A diverse literary anthology with work by the World War 11 Middle-East-based European poets and authors. 8vo. 170 pp. A fine copy in sand cloth, black titles to the spine in a just about fine John Heartfield designed dustwrapper. Preface by John Waller and Eric De Mauny with contributions by Lawrence Durrell, John Gawsworth, Olivia Manning, Keith Douglas, G.S. Fraser et al.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Unclipped Dust Jacket, Has Minor Edge Wear Top And Bottom Of Spine. No Markings, 153 Pgs Illustrated.A Fine Copy.

One number (all published), one of 1000 copies, signed by John Waller; 4to (24.5 x 16.8 cm); partly unopened, illustrations by Osbert Lancaster, holograph corrections to the Editorial, some toning to leaves, else unmarked internally; original wrappers printed in red and black, slight creasing to corners and extremities, mild soiling, some loss to spine at foot, else very good. The first and only appearance of Greek Horizons, a literary journal founded in Athens in 1946 by British author and war correspondent Derek Patmore (1908-1972). This copy is signed three times by one of the contributors, British war poet Sir John Waller (1917-1995), a cofounder of the Salamander Society of poets and writers in Cairo during World War II. Inscribed by him on the editorial page, 'John Waller's signed copy / JSW'. He has also signed both his poems on pp.24-25. Patmore intended Greek Horizons to be a literary quarterly, highlighting Greek culture through the lens of prominent British authors and artists living in Greece at the end of World War II (while the Greek civil war was still raging), but the 1000 copies printed in 1946 marked its only appearance. What makes this volume exceptional is the notability of the contributors, among whom were classicist Rex Warner, who contributed an unpublished translation of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, novelist Lawrence Durrell, and author and environmentalist Kaity Argyropoulou. Durrell, perhaps the best known of the contributors, wrote The Telephone, a short story that was an early version of Patmos, which appeared in Reflections on a Marine Venus (1953). Durrell was a significant influence on Patmore and helped inspire the idea for Greek Horizons (Genova, p.92). Patmore's plans for a second issue came to a premature halt when he left Athens abruptly in the autumn of 1946 - never to return. As such, copies of this important publication are incredibly rare. An important English publication in Greece, one of only 1000 copies, and featuring a superb group of contributors. Genova, A.M. 2022. "The Making of Greek Horizons (1946): Derek Coventry Patmore and the History of His Literary Quarterly", in Leger, John M. (ed.), Princeton University Chronicle. Hollis: Puritan Capital Press: 73-101.