Panic Spring

by Lawrence Durrell, Charles Norden

$1,000 · Offered by Biblioctopus

New York: Covici-Friede, 1937. First American edition. Near fine in a soiled, good only dust jacket with several shallow chips and a longish tear on the rear panel. Item #279576 Durrell's second novel emerged from his early years living on Corfu with his wife Nancy, though he disguised the location as the fictional island of Mavrodaphne. The publisher suggested the pseudonym after his autobiographical debut had flopped

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