First edition
Condition: Very good in good dust jacket, book has light toning, slightly bowed. Dust jacket has edge wear, nicks at corners and spine, creasing, small triangular tear at bottom rear cover. Hardcover. More pictures available upon request.
Publishing Info: E.P. Dutton, New York, 1960
ISBN: n/a
Durrell's third work, the original angry young novel, was first published by his good friend and long-time correspondent Henry Miller as the first title in the short-lived Villa Seurat imprint of the Paris-based Obelisk Press. Unpublishable by the more staid (and censored) presses across the Channel, no work better captures the anguish and death-consciousness of a Europe about to plunge, once again, into cataclysmic war and destruction. The Black Book first saw print in 1938.
