DURRELL, Lawrence.

Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea. [The Alexandria Quartet].

London: Faber and Faber , 1957-1960.

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"A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants": First Editions of Each Volume In the Author’s Alexandria Quartet; Each Inscribed by Lawrence Durrell

First editions of each of the novels comprising the author's acclaimed Alexandria Quartet. Octavo, 4 volumes. Original cloth. Each in the set are near fine to fine in excellent dust jackets that show very light wear. Each book is inscribed by the author, "Inscribed for _______ Lawrence Durrell." Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A very sharp set.

Lawrence Durrell's masterpiece The Alexandria Quartet are four novels set in Alexandria, Egypt during the 1940s. The first of his four novels Justine "demands comparison with the best books of our century." Balthazar continues Durrell’s epic series with "a spontaneous, resourceful new beauty" and, in the third novel Mountolive, Durrell again creates a "work of splendid craft and troubling veracity." The tetralogy’s final novel Clea completes Durrell’s stated design of modeling "the series on ‘the relativity proposition’ in physics"—altogether achieving "a spontaneous, resourceful new beauty" (New York Times).