Two excursions into reality 
 
Lawrence Durrell. 
 
Tam Gibbs Co: 1947. First American edition. Hardcover in a jacket. Octavo. Soiling on the jacket and tiny tears along its top. A few deep black spots of soiling down the front flap of the jacket. A layer of foxing along the top of the back flap of the jacket, on the back panel, and along the top of the back board. Some foxing down the back board and faint foxing the top quarter of the top board. Some foxing on the top edge of the text block and a black dot of soiling on the fore edge. Bottom of the boards slightly bumped. Unpaginated. Very good. 
 
Circle Editions were part of polymath publisher George Leite's Berkeley avant garden of literary talent flowering around daliel's bookstore and gallery. Named after his magazine, Circle Edition's emphasis was on the most important of the experimental. These two stories by Laurence Durrell explore the relationship between madness and creativity. 
 
"Everything illogical is God: and I am God!"