Book Description

Small 8vo. 62 volumes, a run. Limited editions. Each volume is #286 of 2000 numbered copies. Original cloth, gilt. Silk marker ribbons. A few volumes are illustrated. Fine.
Dealer Notes
All the original limited editions prior to #29, and some later volumes, are out of print and already highly collectable. The collection includes: 1. Rosemary Sutcliff - Blue Remembered Hills; 2. Diana Holman Hunt - My Grandmothers and I; 3. V.S. Pritchett - A Cab at the Door; 4. Richard Kennedy - A Boy at the Hogarth Press & A Parcel of Time; 5. Priscilla Napier - A Late Beginner; 6. Adrian Bell - Corduroy; 7. Michael Wharton - The Missing Will; 8. James-Lees-Milne - Another Self; 9. Ted Walker - The High Path; 10. Michael Jenkins - A House in Flanders; 11. Graham Greene - A Sort of Life; 12. Edward Ardizzone - The Young Ardizzone; 13. P.Y. Betts - People Who Say Goodbye; 14. Frances Wood - Hand-grenade Practice in Peking; 15. Ysenda Maxtone Graham - Mr. Tibbits’s Catholic School; 16. Dodie Smith - Look Back with Love; 17. Suzanne St. Albans - Mango and Mimosa; 18. Elspeth Huxley - The Flame Trees of Thika; 19. Alan Moorehead - A Late Education; 20. Dennis Constanduros - My Grandfather and Father, Dear Father; 21. Ysenda Maxtone Graham - The Real Mrs. Miniver; 22. Richard Hillyer - Country Boy; 23. Christabel Bielenberg - The Past Is Myself; 24. Gwen Raverat - Period Piece; 25. John Hackett - I Was a Stranger; 26. John Moore - Portrait of Elmbury; 27. Harold Carlton - Marrying Out ; 28. Gerald Durrell - My Family and Other Animals; 29. Michael Holroyd - Basil Street Blues; 30. Adrian Bell - Silver Ley; 31. Gavin Maxwell - The House of Elrig; 32. Helene Hanff - 84, Charing Cross Road; 33. Diana Petre - The Secret Orchard of Roger Ackerley; 34. John Moore - Brensham Village; 35. Anthony Rhodes - Sword of Bone; 36. Ysenda Maxtone Graham - Terms & Conditions: Life in Girls’ Boarding-Schools, 1939-1979; 37. Hilary Mantel - Giving up the Ghost; 38. Adrian Bell - The Cherry Tree; 39. Richard Hillary - The Last Enemy; 40. Erich Kästner - When I Was a Little Boy; 41. Eric Newby - Something Wholesale; 42. John Moore - The Blue Field; 43. Jennie Erdal - Ghosting; 44. E.H. Shepard - Drawn from Memory; 45. E. H. Shepard - Drawn from Life; 46. Jan Morris - Conundrum; 47. Eric Newby - Love and War in the Apennines; 48. Roald Dahl - Boy; 49. Roald Dahl - Going Solo; 50. Hermione, Countess of Ranfurly - To War with Whitaker; 51. Christopher Robbins - The Empress of Ireland; 52. Jessica Mitford - Hons and Rebels; 53. Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie; 54. Laurie Lee - As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning; 55. Richard Cobb - Still Life; 56. George Clare - Last Waltz in Vienna; 57. Anne Fadiman - The Wine Lover’s Daughter; 58. Flora Thompson - Lark Rise; 59. Flora Thompson - Over to Candleford & Candleford Green; 60. Nella Last - Nella Last’s War; 61. Colin Clark - The Prince, the Showgirl and Me; 62. Katrin FitzHerbert - True to Both My Selves.
Author Various (Slightly Foxed)
Date 2008-23
Publisher London, Slightly Foxed Ltd

Price: £1250.00

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