Details

Subjects:

Alexandria (Egypt) -- Fiction.

Form/Genre:

Romance fiction.

Place of Publication:

United States New York (State) New York (City).

Summary:

An unnamed Englishman--schoolmaster and struggling author--recounts his love affairs in the Egyptian city of Alexandria during the years between the first and second World Wars.

Notes:

Giant Cardinal edition.
"Copyright, ©1957, by Lawrence Durrell"--verso of title page.
"E. P. Dutton edition published August, 1957. Giant Cardinal edition published April 1961"--verso of title page.

Local notes:

Kislak Center copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018.
Kislak Center copy is 4th printing September 1961. Some underlining present.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
Adams, Mark B., (former owner) (Adams copy)
Bell, Janice (autograph) (Adams copy)

Penn Chronology:

1961

Contributor:

Pocket Books, publisher.
Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Mark B. Adams Emergence of Modern Science Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

838612