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Don't Tell Alfred
by Mitford, Nancy
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Archer City, Texas, United States
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About This Item
London: Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Lean to spine, head and tail creased with a bump near middle of spine. Boards soiled, extremities bumped. Endpapers and fore-edge foxed. Previous owner's name in ink on ffep. Dust jacket creased and rubbed with a few small tears; flaps and rear cover foxed.
Synopsis
Nancy Mitford , daughter of Lord and Lady Redesdale and the eldest of the six legendary Mitford sisters, was born in 1904 and educated at home on the family estate in Oxfordshire. She made her debut in London and soon became one of the bright young things of the 1920s, a close friend of Henry Green, Evelyn Waugh, John Betjeman, and their circle. A beauty and a wit, she began writing for magazines and writing novels while she was still in her twenties. In all, she wrote eight novels as well as biographies of Madame de Pompadour, Voltaire, Louis XIV, and Frederick the Great. She died in 1973. More information can be found at www.nancymitford.com.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Booked Up, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64
- Title
- Don't Tell Alfred
- Author
- Mitford, Nancy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1960
Terms of Sale
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
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