{"product_id":"my-family-and-other-animals-1800169","title":"My Family and Other Animals","description":"\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8vo,. publisher’s green linson boards, lettered in silver to spine; in the instantly-recognisable illustrated dustwrapper designed by Ralph Thompson (overlaid Book Society Choice price sticker of 16s net to front flap); pp. [viii], 9-255, [i]; a very good copy, with corners and spine tips lightly bumped and sunned; early ownership inscription to ffep; some light offsetting to endpapers and occasional mild spotting, mostly affecting the outer edges and prelims; the wrapper good to very good, darkened to folds and lightly spotted to flaps; nicks, chips and short closed tears to all edges, sometimes affecting the title lettering; spine evenly sunned; completely unrestored internally. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFirst edition\u003c\/b\u003e, in the repriced dustwrapper.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA popular recounting of Durrell’s five year sojourn on the island of Corfu between 1935 and 1939, in which he describes the various animals he experiences around him, including house lizards, spider crabs, and many others. As well as the animals, he meets a series of other characters, including Yani the shepherd and the Rose Beetle Man, who give him specimens for his growing collection of animals, as well as their taxi-driver friend Spiro and the polymath Dr. Theodore Stephanides. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book later became the first work in his now famous Corfu trilogy, with \u003ci\u003eBirds, Beasts, and Relatives\u003c\/i\u003e published 1969 and \u003ci\u003eThe Garden of the Gods\u003c\/i\u003e in 1978. It was an instant success, and has been adapted for film, TV and theatre, perhaps most famously in 2005 starring Imelda Staunton as Mrs. Durrell and Omid Djalili as Spiro. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e1800169\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fold the Corner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56990275862852,"sku":"1800169","price":250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/8711\/0212\/files\/1800169_d808c469-6aa9-4904-b27f-a1fcebf0ebfc.jpg?v=1784202935","url":"https:\/\/foldthecornerbooks.co.uk\/products\/my-family-and-other-animals-1800169","provider":"Fold the Corner Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}