Without Knowing Mr. Walkley. Personal Memories of …

Olivier, Edith

Published by Faber and Faber, London, 1938

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First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Novelist and conversationalist Edith Olivier (1872-1948), great friend of Rex Whistler and Stephen Tennant and Siegfriend Sassoon and his circle, inscribes a volume of her memoirs, "Siegfried & Hester, welcoming you home, Edith Oliver May 1938". In her Journal, for 29 May 1938 she wrote: "dined with Siegfreid and Hester who opened a fizzy bottle of pink champagne to drink Walkley s health …" The year before, Sassoon had settled an allowance of £200 annually. In April 1938 the Sassoons went abroad "to Rapallo for four elysian weeks when Beerbohm checked The Old Century s punctuation" (Egremont, p. 368. Edith Olivier, from Her Journals, ed. Penelope Middleboe, pp. 194, 201; for the relationship with Sassoon, see also Max Egremont, Siegfriend Sassoon (2005) Blue cloth. Very good (soiled at foot of spine) in very good dust jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Without Knowing Mr. Walkley. Personal Memories of …
• Publisher: Faber and Faber, London
• Publication Date: 1938
• Binding: 1 vols. 8vo
• Edition: First edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
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