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4 volumes. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jackets. Justine retains the publisher's printed wraparound band. The four volumes are preserved in a custom quarter morocco folding clamshell box. First editions; first printings; in the first issue dust jackets. Justine: faintest of foxing to the fore-edge and top edge of the dust jacket; very light fading of the rose cloth; else a fresh unworn copy in a very sharp jacket with very slight fading to the spine. Balthazar: South African bookseller's tiny ticket to front pastedown; else a fine copy in a beautiful jacket with just a touch of fading to the backstrip. Mountolive: slightest of foxing to the fore-edge and top edge of the text block; else a fine copy in a fine jacket. Clea: a fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. Justine is signed and inscribed by Lawrence Durrell on the front free endpaper.

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