My Family and other Animals [with] Birds, Beasts and Relatives [with] The Garden of the Gods.. [The Corfu trilogy complete.] THE ORIGINAL CORFU TRILOGY IN DUSTWRAPPERS
by DURRELL Gerald
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About This Item
Hart-Davis,, 1956-69-78. 3 vols., 8vo., First Edition; cloth (green/red tweed/blue respectively), backstrips lettered in silver/gilt/gilt, tops and fore-edges faintly spotted else a very good, bright, clean set in lightly worn dustwrapper, one small nick at headband of first volume. The set comprises 'My Family and other Animals' (first edition, 1956); 'Birds, Beasts and Relatives' (first edition, 1969); 'The Garden of the Gods' (first edition, 1978). Durrell's Corfu trilogy, now widely recognised as a modern classic, recounts the hilarious adventures of the Durrell family on the island of Corfu during the 1930s. COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE.
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 #
- 44112
- Title
- My Family and other Animals [with] Birds, Beasts and Relatives [with] The Garden of the Gods.. [The Corfu trilogy complete.] THE ORIGINAL CORFU TRILOGY IN DUSTWRAPPERS
- Author
- DURRELL Gerald
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hart-Davis,
- Date Published
- 1956-69-78
- Keywords
- modern first editions, modern firsts, durrell, gerald durrell, corfu, corfu trilogy, my family and other animals
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- Cloth
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- Dustwrapper
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- Headband
- A strip of colored material attached to the text block at the top of the spine of a hard cover book. The same treatment applied...