Pavilions Of The Heart. The Four Walls of Love

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. From the library of Anthony Powell with his bookplate. Copy of a typed errata slip, possibly Powell's, laid-in. Lightest shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book and jacket which is sunned on the spine, price clipped with a bit of the pricing showing. First printing, no others noted. From her Guardian obituary: "Lesley Blanch, writer, adventurer, journalist and fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, has died aged 102, leaving us 11 highly coloured volumes of biography, travel, autobiography and cookery, plus, despite her protest that "I can't invent," a single novel."--May 10, 2007. "Lesley Blanch takes the reader on a uniquely romantic journey to the settings where lovers have come together for a moment, a night or a lifetime. Chosen carefully from those places in her travels where she has come upon a story that has fired the imagination, Blanch writes of Nelson and Lady Hamilton's scandalous affair conducted in a modest house near Wimbledon; Balzac's Parisian love-nest created for his Polish inamorata; the estate of Woronince in the steppes of southern Russia from where Liszt and Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein had to flee; and the house overlooking Lake Lucerne where Wagner and Cosima von Bulow came together. She conjures Sultan Murad's room in the Seraglio and tells the story of Aurelie Picard, whose pavilion of the heart was deep in the Saharan desert. Replete with drama, history and passion, "Pavilions of the Heart" is a seductive and lyrical glimpse at the places where love has reigned."--Waterstones. We specialize in the works of and about Anthony Powell. Books and other items ship promptly with a tracking number and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!