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My Family and other Animals. [Third Impression]. CRISP, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

My Family and other Animals. [Third Impression]. CRISP, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

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My Family and other Animals. [Third Impression]. CRISP, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

by DURRELL Gerald

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Hart-Davis,, 1956. 8vo., Third Impression; original green cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, upper board mildly sunned at extreme head and tail of backstrip else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter a little chafed at extremities and with minor loss (affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip. Published in the same year as 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.

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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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Island Books GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
32446
Title
My Family and other Animals. [Third Impression]. CRISP, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Author
DURRELL Gerald
Book Condition
Used
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
Hart-Davis,
Date Published
1956
Keywords
modern first editions, modern firsts, durrell, gerald durrell, corfu, natural history, ralph thompson

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Sunned
Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
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