Bitter Lemons
DURRELL, Lawrence
NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Faber, [1957]
Stock code: 50026
Price: £148.00
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette, plates and illustrations in the text; red cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped at head and tail of backstrip.
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. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.