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Octavo. 318 pp. First American edition, first printing, signed and dated by Durrell. In publisher's cloth-over-boards binding with dust jacket. Only light shelfwear to the binding; previous owner initial and date on the front free endpaper else contents are clean; dust jacket is very light rubbed and a trifle sunned at the spine; price intact on the front flap. Mountolive is the third volume in Durrell's famed Alexandria Quartet.

Mountolive is the third volume of The Alexandria Quartet series by British author Lawrence Durrell. Set in pre-World War II Alexandria, Egypt, Mountolive is part of a sequence of novels that tell a complex story of passion, politics, and betrayal. The series is celebrated for its rich and intricately woven narrative and exploration of modern love.