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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition UK hardback, 2002 Weidenfeld & Nicolson. The book is in fine condition, the dustjacket is in fine condition.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. New York: Knopf, 2006. First edition. First printing. Hardcover. Red cloth-covered boards with gilt spine lettering. Fine in a fine dust jacket, with bruise to lower corner. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight, clean, unread copy. Octavo, 744 pages; index. "Decca" brings together Jessica Mitford's correspondence from 1924 to 1996spanning her escape from British aristocratic life, participation in the Spanish Civil War, marriage to activist Robert Treuhaft, dedication to the American Communist Party, and groundbreaking investigative career, including "The American Way of Death." The letters offer a candid, humorous, and piercingly intelligent view into her private and political life. Mitford (19171996), the sixth of the famed Mitford sisters, was a British-born journalist, memoirist, and one of the great muckrakers of the twentieth century. This was the first comprehensive collection of her letters. She is best known for "The American Way of Death," her bestselling exposé of the funeral industry, as well as for "Hons and Rebels," "Kind and Usual Punishment," and "Poison Penmanship." FERRY-NONFICTION.…

Very good in very lightly edgeworn jacket First Edition hardbound.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 3rd printing of the first edition. Dustwrapper is protected and price clipped.

Red Boards. Condition: Very Good Plus. Very Good Plus. First Edition. 744pp. The text is accompanied by grouped photographic images. There is a slight bump to the corner of the head of the spine. The lower corner of the rear board is slightly bumped. The dust wrapper has not been price clipped, but does have slight shelf wear with a little creasing to the head of the spine of the wrapper. A lovely copy.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Crease to spine, otherwise fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of bright red jacket and spine, corners slightly bruised, not price clipped (£25.00), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square,overall a vg+ copy. 755pp, illustrated. Over her 78 years, Decca's letters are the most tangible tracks left of a remarkable life, from her childhood as the daughter of a British peer (Lord Redesdale) to her scandalous elopement to the Spanish Civil War with her cousin Esmond Romilly, to her life in the United States, where she married a radical lawyer, Robert Treuhaft in San Francisco. The Mitford girls (five sisters) included Diana (who married the British fascist leader Oswald Mosley), Unity (who was close to Adolf Hitler) and Debo (who became the Duchess of Devonshire). Decca shocked them all when she ran off with and married Esmond Romilly to take part in the Spanish Civil War and subsequently joined the American Communist Party. Her letters are the stories of a century, gossip and politics, war and mores, the wonders of rapid technological change, the poignancy of personal struggles. They are also a record of her never ending quest for social justice. Her letters were also a rehearsal for her published works (which included her memoir, HONS AND REBELS and her investigative masterpiece, THE AMERICAN WAY OF DEATH), which refined the first observations she threw into her letters. This is a fascinating collection that reveals to us intimately the most ebullient Mitford of them all. A massive heavy book, extra postage may be required. Jacket by Pele de Lappe (illustrator).…

Condition: Very Good. 8vo. hardcover. 744pp. index. Very good, owner's inscription on fep. / Very good d/w.

Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.