Bitter Lemons
DURRELL, Lawrence
[First Book Society Edition].
FIRST BS EDITION
Published: Faber, [1957]
Stock code: 50037
Price: £68.00
8vo., First Edition thus, with title-vignette, plates and illustrations in the text; red cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy.
Published simultaneously with the first edition. Elegant copy of Durrell's engaging account of his years 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. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION.