DURRELL’S COLLECTED POEMS, HANDSOMELY BOUND

DURRELL, Lawrence. Collected Poems. London: Faber and Faber, (1960). Octavo, contemporary full crushed red morocco, raised bands, decorative endpapers, all edges gilt. $550.

First edition, second printing, of Durrell’s Collected Poems, issued the same year as the first, handsomely bound in full morocco by Asprey.

“To Durrell, places are poetry, especially those of the Mediterranean world which is the seedbed of his vision. But he has his own way of remembering them” (Time).

A fine copy.