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Justineby DURRELL, Lawrence (1912-1990)First American Edition
Book desription: New York: E. P. Dutton, 1957. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine+. First Edition (so stated). 8vo; 253pp. Publisher's brick-colored cloth, the spine lettered and decorated in black; in a pictorial dust jacket priced at $3.50. Fine, clean and bright (apparently unread), in Near Fine jacket, with a lightly soiled back panel, the spine tips rubbed, and nicks to the front panel's outer corners. The first installment in Durrell's modernist masterpiece, The Alexandria Quartet. "Read as a single, independent work, Justine might well stand as the most intensely romantic novel of the twentieth century, a word-drunk, world-weary portrait of the love-besotted male. From its opening words – ”The sea is high again today, with a thrilling flush of wind” – the novel is written in a rich, almost hypersensitive prose recalling the Elizabethans (favorites of Durrell), Sir Thomas Browne, and Conrad." (Literary Encyclopedia) Note: With few exceptions (always noted), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves.
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