Author: DURRELL Gerald
Title: Menagerie Manor. With illustrations by Ralph Thompson. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Description: Hart-Davis,, 1964. 8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette and numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; terracotta cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The first account of Durrell's zoo (now 'Durrell Wildlife') established in Jersey and a delightful example of the author's remarkable ten-year partnership with illustrator Ralph Thompson. This is the last of Durrell's works illustrated by Thompson, arguably the finest of all Durrell's artists, and the last published by Rupert Hart-Davis before the author's transfer to Collins in 1966. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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