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The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street: Letters Between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill 1952 - 73.
by Saumarez Smith, John (editor)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0711224528
- ISBN 13
- 9780711224520
- Seller
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
London: Frances Lincoln, 2004. Reprint ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white photos, minor edgewear jacket. 191 pp. Nancy Mitford worked in Heywood Hill's bookshop from March 1942 to the end of the war. After the war she went to live in France. These letters are the ones she wrote to Heywood Hill until her death in 1973. Charming, witty, irresistible, the correspondence gives brilliant insights into a world that has almost disappeared. Edited by John Saumarez Smith. .
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- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24970
- Title
- The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street: Letters Between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill 1952 - 73.
- Author
- Saumarez Smith, John (editor)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Reprint ed.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0711224528
- ISBN 13
- 9780711224520
- Publisher
- Frances Lincoln
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- communication, books, letters, writers, travel, britain, europe, france
- Bookseller catalogs
- LANGUAGE & BOOKS;
Terms of Sale
Bookhome Sydney
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About the Seller
Bookhome Sydney
Biblio member since 2004
Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
Friendly family-owned internet bookshop located in Sydney's inner west. Selling books since 1998 (online since 2000). A broad range of quality secondhand and antiquarian books, particularly Australian history and society (Australiana), psychology, health, animals/pets, environment, science, religion, books for children. Mostly nonfiction.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...