The Black Book

Paris: Olympia Press, (1959).

Price: $50.00

Softcover. Second, revised edition with new preface by the author. Printed wrappers with dust jacket. Neat price cancel on lower wrap, top corner gently creased throughout, near fine in a very good dust jacket with a small chip and small neatly repaired tear at the crown, and a small area of delamination on the unprinted lower wrap. Number 77 in The Traveler's Companion Series. Published the year before the first American edition.

Item #574637

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Item #574637 The Black Book. Lawrence DURRELL.

Lawrence Durrell
birth name: Lawrence Durrell
born: 2/27/1912
died: 11/7/1990

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Biography

English writer who is best known as the author of The Alexandria Quartet, a series of four interconnected novels. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature

Durrell's brother, Gerald, was a well-known naturalist who wrote several books on the subject.more

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