My Family and other Animals. [Sixth Impression]. CRISP, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
by DURRELL Gerald
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Hart-Davis,, [1958]. 8vo., Sixth Impression; original green cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped at edges and with minor loss (affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip. Published two years after the first edition. Undoubtedly the author's most sought-after work, Durrell's unsurpassed first volume of autobiography is a twentieth century classic. His wonderfully written and often hilarious recollections of childhood and natural history in 1930s Corfu are augmented by Ralph Thompson's splendid dustwrapper artwork. The Durrell-Thompson partnership, prose perfectly complemented by illustrations, enhanced all the early Durrell works published by Hart-Davis. ALL EARLY PRINTINGS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
Synopsis
My Family and Other Animals is an autobiographical work by naturalist Gerald Durrell, telling of the part of his childhood he spent on the Greek island of Corfu between 1935 and 1939. It describes the life of the Durrell Family on the island in a humorous manner, and also richly discusses the fauna of the island. It is the first and most famous of Durrell's Corfu trilogy, together with Birds, Beasts, and Relatives, and The Garden of the Gods.
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- Bookseller
- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 48361
- Title
- My Family and other Animals. [Sixth Impression]. CRISP, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
- Author
- DURRELL Gerald
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hart-Davis,
- Date Published
- [1958]
- Keywords
- modern first editions, modern firsts, durrell, gerald durrell, corfu, natural history, ralph thompson
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