Lawrence Durrell: The Big Supposer - A Dialogue with Marc Alyn
by Alyn, Marc
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0200720732
- ISBN 13
- 9780200720731
- Seller
-
Langport, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, UK: Abelard-Schuman, 1973 Translated from the French by Francine Barker. B/w illustrations. Some age and shelf wear. Original dustjacket not price clipped. D/j edges rubbed, corners bumped. Book cover at spine top and tail slighted bumped. Top left hand corner of front endpaper has previous owner's name and address in blue ink - otherwise no internal markings, clean text pages. Top edge of pages has age spots. Tight copy. "In The Big Supposer, a distillation of six hours' conversation with Marc Alyn (a leading French poet and book critic of the Figaro), Durrell draws an astonishing picture of himself, playing with words, trifling with reputations and literature. Durrell himself says of Marc Alyn's book that it at first seems arbitrary but in fact has a shape of its own. He aimed at a sort of collage composed of many snapshots. At the back of the book is a horoscope of Durrell, composed by astrologer Moricand from a date provided by Henry Miller (Moricand did not meet Durrell until years later) as well as fascinating pieces of writing by Durrell himself (Les Suppositores Requisitoires)."
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- Bookseller
- Aardvolk The Virtual Book Store (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000504
- Title
- Lawrence Durrell: The Big Supposer - A Dialogue with Marc Alyn
- Author
- Alyn, Marc
- Illustrator
- Durrell, Lawrence
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0200720732
- ISBN 13
- 9780200720731
- Publisher
- Abelard-Schuman
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 1973
- Keywords
- Literary, poet, writer
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions; Biography;
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- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Price Clipped
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