Bitter Lemons. [First Book Club Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
by DURRELL Lawrence
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Readers Union [with] Faber,, [1958]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with plates; yellow cloth, backstrip lettered in brown, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper lightly browned at backstrip. Published a year after the first edition. Crisp copy of Durrell's engaging account of his time in Cyprus during the troubled years of 1953-56. It is a wonderful study of moods and atmospheres; the house-buying episode is justly regarded as a comic masterpiece.
Synopsis
Bitter Lemons is an autobiographical work by writer Lawrence Durrell, describing the three years (1953-1956) he spent on the island of Cyprus. The book was awarded the Duff Cooper Prize for 1957, the second year the Prize was awarded.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46170
- Title
- Bitter Lemons. [First Book Club Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
- Author
- DURRELL Lawrence
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Readers Union [with] Faber,
- Date Published
- [1958]
- Keywords
- modern first editions, modern firsts, durrell, lawrence durrell, cyprus, kyrenia, bellapaix
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