My Family and other Animals [with] Birds, Beasts and Relatives [with] The Garden of the Gods.
DURRELL, Gerald
[The Corfu trilogy complete.]
THE ORIGINAL CORFU TRILOGY IN DUSTWRAPPERS
Published: Hart-Davis, 1956-69-78
Stock code: 44112
Price: £1,280.00
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition; cloth (green/red tweed/blue respectively), backstrips lettered in silver/gilt/gilt, tops and fore-edges faintly spotted else a very good, bright, clean set in lightly worn dustwrapper, one small nick at headband of first volume.
The set comprises 'My Family and other Animals' (first edition, 1956); 'Birds, Beasts and Relatives' (first edition, 1969); 'The Garden of the Gods' (first edition, 1978). Durrell's Corfu trilogy, now widely recognised as a modern classic, recounts the hilarious adventures of the Durrell family on the island of Corfu during the 1930s. COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE.