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Four volumes Justine: very nice copy in slightly spotted and rubbed, price-clipped, dust-wrapper that is slightly darkened at spine panel; newspaper cutting of a photograph of the author neatly mounted on p.[12] (a blank facing the first page of text) and bordered by rules in red ink, ownership signature on front free end-paper. Balthazar: very nice copy in dust-wrapper that is a little darkened at spine panel. Mountolive: very nice copy in dust-wrapper that is chipped and worn with slight loss at head and foot of spine panel and has some loss to head of lower panel; a previous owner has supplied the dust-wrapper of a later impression to protect the original. Clea: fine copy in dust-wrapper that is a little faded at spine panel.

The first novel in Durrell's famous Alexandria Quartet, exploring the complexities of love and political intrigue in Alexandria, Egypt.