The Avignon Quintet: Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian, Quinx Complete in FIVE Volumes.
by DURRELL, LAWRENCE:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Faber and Faber. London. 1974 1st edition.. Size 8 x 5.25 inches. In different color cloth covers with gilt to spine. With dustwrapper. In good condition with good dustwrapper (dw; Wrapper darkened and rubbed at ends. Not Price clipped). One volume has private stamp on front endpaper. Some light dust marks top edges. Else a clean and tight copy. A complete set of the five books comprising The Avignon Quintet, all of which are first editions. The quintet comprises: Monsieur, or the Prince of Darkness (1974); Livia, or Buried Alive (1978); Constance, or Solitary Practices (1982); Sebastian, or Ruling Passions (1983); Quinx, or The Ripper's Tale (1985).
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- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 95031
- Title
- The Avignon Quintet: Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian, Quinx Complete in FIVE Volumes.
- Author
- DURRELL, LAWRENCE:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber. London. 1974 1st edition.
- Keywords
- Literature LAWRENCE DURRELL, Novel, dustwrapper, first edition The Avignon Quintet: Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian, Quinx
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
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- Gilt
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- Dustwrapper
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Edges
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