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Gerald Durrell – The Corfu Trilogy – First UK Editions 1956-71
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The Corfu Trilogy (My Family and Other Animals/Garden of the Gods/Birds, Beasts and Relatives)
London Rupert Hart-Davis/Collins 1956
A first edition, first printing published by Rupert Hart-Davis and Collins between 1956-79. Comprising: ‘My Family and Other Animals’: A first edition, first printing published by Rupert Hart-Davis in 1956. A very good book without inscriptions – previous owner’s bookplate to the front endpaper. Some light spotting to the page edge. In a very good (or better) dust wrapper which is unclipped – some light repair to the spine ends and some archival internal repair. Rare. ‘Birds, Beasts and Relatives’: A very good book with some light spotting to the page edges in a very good unclipped wrapper with some light tape repairs internally. ‘The Garden of the Gods’: A near fine book with a little spotting to the endpapers, in a near fine unclipped wrapper with one internal tape repair. A nice set of the three books which make up Durrell’s ‘Corfu Trilogy’, the basis for the (now) popular ITV drama.
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The Corfu Trilogy (My Family and Other Animals/Garden of the Gods/Birds, Beasts and Relatives)
London Rupert Hart-Davis/Collins 1956
A first edition, first printing published by Rupert Hart-Davis and Collins between 1956-79. Comprising: ‘My Family and Other Animals’: A first edition, first printing published by Rupert Hart-Davis in 1956. A very good book without inscriptions – previous owner’s bookplate to the front endpaper. Some light spotting to the page edge. In a very good (or better) dust wrapper which is unclipped – some light repair to the spine ends and some archival internal repair. Rare. ‘Birds, Beasts and Relatives’: A very good book with some light spotting to the page edges in a very good unclipped wrapper with some light tape repairs internally. ‘The Garden of the Gods’: A near fine book with a little spotting to the endpapers, in a near fine unclipped wrapper with one internal tape repair. A nice set of the three books which make up Durrell’s ‘Corfu Trilogy’, the basis for the (now) popular ITV drama.