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THE WANTON CHASE: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY FROM 1939 by Quennell, Peter - 1980

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THE WANTON CHASE: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY FROM 1939

by Quennell, Peter

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New York: Atheneum, 1980. HC. good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). B&W frontis. ISBN 0689110812 This book begins where THE MARBLE FOOT left off, starting in 1939 with his World War II misadventures as an inept fire warden (discharged for smoking on the job) and indifferent government censor, and following the progress of his life since. 192pp.
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  • ISBN 10 0689110812
  • ISBN 13 9780689110818
  • Publisher Atheneum
  • Place of Publication New York
  • Date Published 1980
  • Keywords literary biography

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New York: Atheneum, 1980. First American Edition (stated). 1st Printing. Cloth. About Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First American Edition stated, First Printing. Hard cover 8vo in initial-stamped blue cloth w/silver spine titles. About Fine w/ several dog-eared lower corners, else Fine and unmarked book in Near Fine clipped DJ w/2 tiny tears, now in clear protective cover. 192pp inc. textual footnotes, Index.
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New York: Atheneum, 1980. First American Edition. First? Printing. very good, very good. 192, footnotes, index, some wear, soiling, and small crease to DJ. The second volume of author Peter Quennell's autobiography (following The Marble Foot). From 1939 as censor at the Ministry of Information, in the London Fire Service, as editor of the "Cornhill Magazine" and weekly book-reviewer for the "Daily Mail. " Includes accounts of Somerset Maugham, Henry de Montherlant, Cyril Connolly, Evelyn Waugh, Ian and Ann Fleming, Noel Coward, etc.
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