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Mountolive
by Lawrence Durrell
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Longford , Longford, Ireland
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About This Item
New York 1959. E P Dutton. First US edition of the author's third novel in his Alexandria quartet. Clean cloth bound boards showing minor wear at head and tail of spine and at extremities. Some fading on rear panel. Binding tight. No inscriptions. Previous very old resale price in pencil on first blank. Top edge of text block somewhat dusty.
DJ is not price clipped showing minor wear at extremities and on spine. Dicreet tape attached to rear of head and tail of spine (not visible) for protection. Somewhat dust dulled. Presents well in protective removeable sleeve.
Interestingly, laid in, is a review of the novel written by Clifton Fadiman which is in leaflet form and reprinted from Book of the Month Club News.
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Synopsis
Mountolive, published in 1958, is the third volume in the The Alexandria Quartet series by British author Lawrence Durrell. Set in Alexandria, Egypt around WWII, the four novels tell essentially the same story from different points of view and come to a conclusion in Clea. Mountolive is the only third person narrative in the series, and it is also the most overtly political.
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- Seller
- Dephen Rare Books
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 20237
- Title
- Mountolive
- Author
- Lawrence Durrell
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Dutton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1959
- Pages
- 318
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Alexandria Quartet, Fadiman
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- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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