Mitford Nancy Ed (19 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition Thus. First Modern Library edition, hardcover, has a very small skew to the binding, slight bumps to spine ends, and a touch of sunning to head and tail edges of text block, otherwise a solid, tight VG+ copy in a like dust jacket, which has slight bumps to spine ends and corners, faint rubbing with a touch of edgewear, and very slight sunning to the spine.…

hardback, large 8vo, xx,531pp, illustrated, slight foxing on top edges, otherwise clean and tight, no inscriptions, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper. not price-clipped. ISBN: 0340638044.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Small 8vo, half white cloth, red lettering. JEdges slightly foxed, jacket faded on spine. Contributions by Mitford, Alan S. C. Ross, Evelyn Waugh, Christopher Sykes, John Betjeman, introduction by Russell Lynes., mainly centered on speech (("U" and "non-U"). Osbert Lancaster (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. Clean blue boards, with gilt titles to spine and an unclipped DW. A tight, bright and clean copy with no inscriptions and unclipped DW. Some minor scuffing to DW. 322pp. (15x22.5cm). Please contact us for any more information.

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 cost.

Paperback reprint in very good condition, crease to front cover. (Book ref 2850).

First edition in near fine condition in near fine unclipped dustjacket. Former owner's signature on front free endpaper. (Book ref 4917).

First edition in near fine condition in very good price clipped dustjacket, faded spine. Gift inscription on front free endpaper.(Book ref 4143).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Paperback, very good for its age. Penguin Books 1348 (reprint, 1960). Minor edgewear and tanning to the cover; spine ends worn. Pageblock and pages are tanned. The binding is sound, all text and illustrations are clear. CM. Lancaster, Osbert (illustrator). Used.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. The US edition. Hardcover in worn dust jacket (now in archival mylar sleeve). Toning, shelf and handling wear to covers, toning to edges and endpapers, with old owners' names to front endpaper. Otherwise a sound and neat copy. Illustrated. Lancaster, Osbert (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Third impression hardback in very good condition, blue cloth boards silver lettering on spine, in repaired unclipped dust jacket, no signs of previous ownership. (Book ref. 9137). Lancaster, Osbert (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Good. Paperback Octavo. wraps, 624 pp covers very lightly worn Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st thus (1989). 114pp. VG+ copy with ink name on half-title. Osbert Lancaster (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: fair. blue cloth gilt lettering dust jacket 257 pp Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders. Cloth/dust jacket and mylar wrapped octavo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Scarce 1st edition, 1st printing of this title. Book has slight loss to top/bottom of spine, rubbing all round with darkening of spine and boards with some marks. Prev. owner's signature neatly on the ffep otherwise. " The Times Book Club " stamp on inner rear board" No other markings. Tight binding. …

Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston 1993. xxi+538 pages. Illustrated in b/w. Original halfcloth in dust wrapper. Mild rubbing and edgewear to wrapper. Spine ends a little compressed. Very good++/very good wraper.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. A fantastic three volume set of illustrated first edition collections of letters from the notable figures Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh, and Diana Cooper. A three volume set.In the publisher's original cloth bindings. In the original unclipped dust wrappers.Comprising of:(1991) Mr Wu and Mrs Stitch: The Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana CooperThe first edition. Edited by Artemis Cooper. With 8 double sided plates.(1993) The Letters of Nancy Mitford: Love From NancyThe first edition. Edited by Charlotte Mosley. With ten double sided plates, and in text illustrations throughout.(1996) The Letters of Nancy Mitford & Evelyn WaughThe first edition, first impression. Edited by Charlotte Mosley. Illustrated with seven double sided plates.All volumes are collated, complete.Nancy Mitford was an English novelist, biographer, and journalist who was regarded as one of the "bright young things" on the London social scene in theinter-war period. She wrote several novels about upper-class life in England and France, and is considered a sharp and often provocative wit. She also has a reputation as a writer of popular historical biographies.Evelyn Waugh was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer. He is recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the English language in the 20th century. His most famous works include the early satiresDecline and Fall(1928) andA Handful of Dust (1934).Lady Diana Cooper was an Englishsilent film actress and aristocrat who was a well-known social figure in London and Paris.As a young woman, she moved in a celebrated group of intellectuals known asthe Coterie, most of whom were killed in theFirst World War. She married one of the few survivors,Duff Cooper, laterBritish ambassador to France. After his death, she wrote three volumes of memoirs which reveal much about early 20th-century upper-class life. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. In the original unclipped dust wrappers. Externally, excellent. Light shelf wear to the head and tail of the spines. Dust wrappers are very smart. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…