The Overloaded Ark.
Book Description
Scarce signed Durrell debut!
A very good first edition of the first book by naturalist & zoologist Gerald Durrell, who would become famous for his 1956 autobiographical work My Family and Other Animals, and who has enjoyed several successful TV serialisations, notably The Durrells (or The Durrells in Corfu). The Overloaded Ark chronicles a six-month collecting trip Durrell undertook to the then British colony of Cameroon in West Africa between 1947 & 1948. Very scarce signed.
Dealer Notes
First edition, first impression, published by Faber in association with The Book Society, signed by the author on front free endpaper; 8vo; vignette illustrations by Sabine Bauer, map; publisher’s green cloth, a few small holes at joints, otherwise very good, dust-jacket with artwork by Ley Kenyon, a little chipped, rubbed at fore-edges, but overall very good.
Author
DURRELL, Gerald M.
Date
1953
Publisher
Faber and Faber & The Book Society
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