Published by Arcade Pub, 1990
ISBN 10: 155970098X ISBN 13: 9781559700986
Seller: Your Online Bookstore, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condition: USED_GOOD.
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Published by Faber & Faber, Limited, 1990
ISBN 10: 0571137431 ISBN 13: 9780571137435
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
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Condition: Very Good. Photographs By Harry Peccinotti (illustrator). 1st Edition. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
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Published by Faber & Faber, 2002
ISBN 10: 0571214274 ISBN 13: 9780571214273
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Condition: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.
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Published by Faber and Faber, 1995
ISBN 10: 0571174000 ISBN 13: 9780571174003
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: USED_VERYGOOD. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.7.
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Published by Arcade (1990) New York, 1990
ISBN 10: 155970098X ISBN 13: 9781559700986
First Edition
Very good in very lightly edgeworn jacket First Printing hardbound Many Photographs.
Published by Arcade Pub. c.1990, 1990
Seller: Harry Alter, Sylva, NC, U.S.A.
hardcover, Condition: USED_VERYGOOD. photos. by Harry Peccinotti. Arcade Pub. NY c.1990, 1st. 7-1/2"x9-3/4", hardcover, 207pp. 38 color plates. bkplte., F/F $.
Published by Arcade Publishing, New York, 1990
ISBN 10: 155970098X ISBN 13: 9781559700986
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: USED_FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. Peccinotti (illustrator). First American edition. Introduction by Durrell. 8vo. Blue cloth, with gilt spine titles. Illustrated end papers. With frontis color photographic image of the author's house. 210 pages, with Notes and Index. With 38 color photographic images by Harry Peccinotti. No names or marks. In illustrated dust-jacket, with price intact. A crisp, as new copy.
Published by Arcade Publishing, N.Y., 1990
Seller: M H Harrington, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: USED_VERYGOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardcover book, 8" x 10", dust wrapper is very good (sunned, laminate lifting, light wear); internally book has light signs of age and wear - very good+ to near fine - all text and images fine and clear; XVI, 210 pgs, with black-and-white and color photographs by Harry Peccinotti; fp 2lbs. Book.
Published by Arcade Publishing, NY, 1990
Seller: Old Book Surfer, Cambridge, NY, U.S.A.
Hard Cover. Condition: UNSPECIFIED. First U.S. edition, stated. large 8vo., 210 pgs. First American edition of this late-career homage to the author's adopted land. Many color photographs enhance the text, which is both historically useful and personally infused with the author's sense of place and humanity. One small tear on the back jacket fold, and a minor tape repair at the jacket head. Clean within, nicely printed on coated paper, in an 8x10-inch size. Fine condition in a VG- dust jacket. Pristine cloth beneath the wrapper.
Published by NY: Arcade/Little, Brown (1990)., 1990
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First US edition. xiv + 210 pp w/notes and sources & index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Illustrated with color photographs by Harry Peccinotti.
Published by Arcade Publishing, New York, 1990
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condition: USED_FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. Color Illus. 4to, blue cloth, d.w. lightly sunned on spine. New York: Arcade Publishing, (1990). Near Fine.
Published by Arcade Pub, 1990
ISBN 10: 155970098X ISBN 13: 9781559700986
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: USED_NEARFINE. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine blue cloth large octavo hardcover in a near fine, glassine covered and priced dj. First edition with full number line. Mark free text. 8vo. 210pp. Index photos f lands.
Published by Faber and Faber, 1990, 1990
Seller: GfB, the Colchester Bookshop, Colchester, United Kingdom
Condition: UNSPECIFIED. Faber and Faber, 1990. Hardback, d/j, sm4to, xiv,210pp, illust. D/j slightly bumped, spine faded, rear flap torn. A fair copy. 0571137431.
Published by Arcade, New York, 1990
ISBN 10: 155970098X ISBN 13: 9781559700986
Seller: M & M Books, ATHENS, GA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: USED_FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Peccinotti, Harry (illustrator). 1st US Edition.
Published by Arcade., New York., 1990
Seller: BookMine, Fair Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hard cover. Condition: UNSPECIFIED. First edition. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine (owner inscription on title page) copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
Published by Arcade Books (a subsidiary of Little, Brown), 1990
Seller: Brothertown Books, Deansboro, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: USED_NEARFINE. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Here is a truly lovely book wherein we are guided through the historical beauty of Provence by Lawrence Durrell, a man who has lived in Provence for thirty years. Gracing Durrell's genial narration are the beautiful color photographs of Harry Peccinotti. Also included are nineteen poems by Durrell. **************************************** From the dust-jacket write-up : "For more than thirty years the world-famous writer Lawrence Durrell has lived in Provence, that magical wedge of land in southern France that has been the scene of so much rich and varied history. Julius Caesar gave Provence its name and built his fleet for the Egyptian campaign there - at Arles, which was then a coastal city. Earlier, the Roman general Marius, whom history has sorely neglected, brilliantly defeated a vast horde of Nordic barbarians there, thus saving Rome from almost certain destruction. Long before the Romans discovered Provence, the Phoenicians and Greeks had preceded them. But these earlier settlers were essentially seagoing people, and it was the Romans who left their indelible mark, magnificent vestiges of which remain today: arenas and theaters, arches and bridges, road systems and aqueducts. Caesar's vast ghost still haunts the tourist playgrounds of today. ********************************************* "Durrell clearly loves Provence and savors it as perhaps only an adopted son can. His is not a guidebook, though readers will find here information and countless intriguing morsels unavailable in any tourist handbook. Nor is it a writer's journal, though it preserves memories and cameos from the author's intimate knowledge of the place and people. It is, rather, a letter to posterity, capturing the essential spirit of this ancient, enchanting land, watered by a great river, and the extraordinary array of warriors, historians, philosophers, troubadours, popes, and poets who constitute its human history through the centuries. Durrell was a long-time close friend of Henry Miller, and the two of them influenced each others' work. ************************************* TITLE : Caesar's Vast Ghost, Aspects of Provence / AUTHOR : Lawrence Durrell (1913 - 1990) / ILLUSTRATIONS : Photos by Harry Peccinotti; End-papers by Oscar Epfs / IMPRINT : Arcade Publishing (Subsidiary of Little, Brown Co.) / PLACE : New York / YEAR : (1990) / EDITION : First U.S. Edition, so stated and with publisher's number line, 1 - 10 / STATUS : OP PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Trade hardcover; contains 39 color photographs + 2 small illustrations appended; includes an Introduction, Notes and Sources, an index; xiv + 210 pages; approximately 7 3/8" x 9 5/8"; dark green boards with title, etc. lettered in gold on spine; color-decorated end-papers; color-pictorial photographic dust-jacket; rear panel of jacket has a photo-portrait of Durrell *********************************** CONDITION - VERY GOOD - A desireable copy, clean, bright and presentable the sole imperfections being to the dust-jacket - mild surface rub and a small with wrinkles to the bottom edge of the rear panel it's a lovely copy.
Published by Arcade, 1990
Seller: My Book Heaven, Alameda, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: UNSPECIFIED. First Edition. Very Good book in a Very Good dustjacket.
Published by Arcade Publishing, a Little, Brown company, New York, 1990. Stated first U.S. edition., 1990
Seller: City Basement Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Condition: UNSPECIFIED. 4to (25x19.5cm), hardback, xiv + 211pp. Good condition in good dustwrapper (light wear, some creasing, bumped, scuff marks). Bumped, pp103/110 slightly out of alignment with the rest of the text block, mild foxing, publisher's printing error with several pages from the start of the book printed again at the end. With colour plates. Pictures available on request.
Published by Arcade, 1990
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: USED_ASNEW. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Photographs (illustrator). First Edition. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy in a Brodart jacket cover.
Published by Faber & Faber, London, 1990
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: UNSPECIFIED. First edition. 4to. [xiv], 210 pp. Photographs by Harry Peccinotti. Cloth binding in unclipped dsutwrapper, very good condition. (87719).
Published by New York: Arcade Publishing, 1990
ISBN 10: 155970098X ISBN 13: 9781559700986
Seller: Fundus-Online GbR Borkert Schwarz Zerfaß, Berlin, Germany
First Edition
Condition: Gut. First edition. XIV, 210 p. Lediglich der Schutzumschlag ist leicht berieben, sonst ein sehr gutes Exemplar ohne Anstreichungen / Only the dust jacket is slightly rubbed, otherwise a very good copy without annotations. - For more than thirty years the world- famous writer Lawrence Durrell has lived in Provence, that magical wedge of land in southern France that has been the scene of so much rich and varied history Julius Caesar gave Provence its name and built his fleet for the Egyptian campaign there at Arles, which was then a coastal city. Earlier, the Roman general Marius, whom history has sorely neglected, brilliantly defeated a vast horde of Nordic barbarians there, thus saving Rome from almost certain destruction. Long before the Romans discovered Provence, the Phoenicians and Greeks had preceded them. But these earlier settlers were essentially seagoing people, and it was the Romans who left their indelible mark, magnificent vestiges of which remain today: arenas and theaters, arches and bridges, road systems and aqueducts. Caesar's vast ghost still haunts the tourist playgrounds of today. Durrell clearly loves Provence and savors it as perhaps only an adopted son can. His is not a guidebook, though readers will find here information and countless intriguing morsels unavailable in any tourist handbook. Nor is it a writer's journal, though it preserves memories and cameos from the author's intimate knowledge of the place and people. It is rather a letter to posterity, capturing the essential spirit of this ancient, enchanting land, watered by a great river, and the extraordinary array of warriors, historians, philosophers, troubadours, popes, and poets who constitute its human history through the centuries. As foils to Durrell's own observations and comments, two old and cherished friends Jérôme the saintly tramp and Aldo the impoverished nobleman in his tumbledown château add theirs throughout the book, complementing and sometimes contradicting, but always enriching our knowledge of the history and essence of the Midi and its people. Evocative chapters are dedicated to a number of the author's enthusiasms: bullfighting; the Medieval Courts of Love and the troubadours; Provençal food as well as some of its more exotic and strange drinks; burial customs; coins and fountains; and the favors of Cuné- gonde, the latex beauty. As Durrell notes, Provence is less a place than an idea, "a funnel through which almost every race, ancient or modern, has passed on its way to war, upon roads traced and defended by the bravery and enterprise of the ancient Greeks and Romans." What he desires, then, is to bring us "a Provence of landscape insights and historic portraits, but one which keeps firmly in view the identity of the place itself underneath all the superficial changes. To try and trace the permanent Provence still living and breathing underneath the vast panorama of its history; the still present reality living on in spite of such a kaleidoscopic past." In that ambitious and loving endeavor, he has succeeded magnificently. Caesar's Vast Ghost is a monument not only to the region, but also to the author himself. / Contents List of illustrations List of poems Introduction i After Valence ii Baptisms iii Terre d'élection de la haute magie iv Bull-worship v Caesar's Vast Ghost vi Nurse and mistress of the crossroads vii The story of Marius viii The Jealous God ix Woman in Provence Conclusion: Le cercle refermé Notes and sources Index. ISBN 9781559700986 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 855 Gebundener Originalpappband mit Originalschutzumschlag / Hardcover with dust jacket.
Published by NY: Arcade., 1990
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Signed
Condition: Good. 4to. 210 pp., Blue Cloth, Dust Jacket Very Good, else Near Fine. Color photographs.Heavy book, may cost extra for shipping.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). Association copy.
Published by Faber & Faber London 1995, 1995
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
First Edition
1st edition hardback with dust jacket Very nice copy small quarto xiv + 210pp., colour frontis., colour & b/w plates, index, Provence, where Lawrence Durrell lived for 30 years, is the motif of this final work, published just before his death. It is a highly personal and unusual book, part travelogue, part writer's handbook, part autobiography. It preserves memories from his intimate experience of the Midi, and scattered through the evocative text are nineteen poems inspired by the genius of the place. Illustrated. This edition is scarce in dust jacket.
Published by Arcade Publishing, New York, 1990
ISBN 10: 155970098X ISBN 13: 9781559700986
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: UNSPECIFIED. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good price clipped dust jacket. Light water staining on bottom front panel and top rear panel. Creasing on top front panel. Small open tears on front and rear panel bottom corners. ; 0.8 X 7.6 X 9.9 inches.
Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Harry Peccinotti (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this illustrated memoir by Lawrence Durrell on Provence, with colour photographs. The first edition.Illustrated with full colour photographs by Harry Peccinotti.In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper.This memoir of Provence was written by Lawrence Durrell, a poet, author and travel writer. The work takes you on a journey through Provence, guided by the author's memories of the area from his time living there. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally lovely. The wrap is lovely with only the lightest sunning to the spine and very minor slight marks. Internally firmly bound with clean and generally bright pages. Fine. book.
Published by Faber, [1990], 1990
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
First Edition
4to., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, numerous coloured photographs (a number full-page) in the text and pictorial endpapers; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter as usual lightly sunned at backstrip.
Published by Faber and Faber, 1990
Seller: Codex Books, York, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Caesars Vast Ghost,Aspects of Provence by Lawrence Durrell, 1st Edition,1990, Published by Faber and Faber Limited, Printed in Great Britain by Clays Ltd, Hardback,has slight fading to covers and spine, Dust jacket,has some fading to jacket, All pages appear present, Pages are yellowing, All illustrations appear present as listed,with some yellowing,
Published by London: Faber & Faber., 1990
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Signed
Condition: Good. 4to. 210 pp., Blue Cloth, Dust Jacket Very Good, else Near Fine. Color photographs.Heavy book, may cost extra for shipping.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). Association copy.