Harold Nicolson Intro (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st printing (1953). 207pp. Original black cloth wtih gilt titles to spine, VG+ copy, binding square and tight, cloth covers clean, gilt titles bright, light foxing to prelims, otherwise internally excellent; no dust jacket.

Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

SECOND IMPRESSION, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.…

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. A very smart set of four first edition volumes on notable figures Lytton Strachey, Gertrude Bell, Vita Sackville-West, Harold Nicolson, and Virginia Woolf. A four volume set of works on notable figures.In the original cloth bindings. In the original unclipped dust wrappers.Comprising of:(1971) Lytton Strachey by Himself: A Self-PortraitEdited with an introduction by Michael Holroyd. The first edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece. The diary of Lytton Strachey, an English writer and critic who was a founding member of the Bloomsbury Group and the author of Eminent Victorians. He established a new form of biography in whichpsychologicalinsight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit.(1978) Gertrude BellBy H.V.F. Gertrude Bell. The first edition. Illustrated with 8 double sided plates and in text illustrations. A work on Gertrude Bell, an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, andarchaeologist. She spent much of her life exploring and mapping theMiddle East, and became highly influential to British imperial policy-making as anArabistdue to her knowledge and contacts built up through extensive travels.(1992) Vita and Harold: The Letters of Sackville-West and Harold NicolsonEdited by Nigel Nicolson. The first edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 8 double sided plates. Vita Sackville-West was a prolific author and garden designer, whilst Harold Nicolson was a British politician, writer, broadcaster and gardener. The two were married.(1994) Virginia WoolfBy James King. The first edition, first impression. Illustrated with 8 double sided plates. A work on Virginia Woolf, an English writer and one of the most influential 20th-centurymodernistauthors. She helped to pioneer the use ofstream of consciousnessnarration as a literary device. In publisher's original cloth bindings. In the original unclipped dust wrappers. Externally, excellent. Minor shelf wear to extremities. Dust wrappers are very smart, with just slight shelf wear to edges. Mark to spine of 'Lytton Strachey' wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…