Nancy Mitford Et Al (8 results)

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. New York: Adrenaline / Thunder's Mouth Press / Balliett & Fitzgerald Inc 1999. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 1560252189. 374 pages, illustrated, acknowledgments, bibliography. Fine copy save for a near-vertical fold to the front cover flap. clph.

Condition: Good. 1950. First Edition. 470 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gilt. Colour and black and white illustrations throughout. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Minor pen inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf wear with some rubbing and corner bumping. Some heavy sunning. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1960 Penguin Books UK edition. Illustrated by Osbert Lancaster. Orange Penguin. Small bookshop stamp to fep. Good copy. Osbert Lancaster (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. The US edition. Hardcover in worn dust jacket (now in archival mylar sleeve). Toning, shelf and handling wear to covers, toning to edges and endpapers, with old owners' names to front endpaper. Otherwise a sound and neat copy. Illustrated. Lancaster, Osbert (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Good+, unmarked HB; no DJ [Sixth Impression].

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Lovely Folio edition, with original card slipcase. Has some light general reading/shelfwear - otherwise this is a clean, tight copy. Quick dispatch from the UK. Book.

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. Large octavo. 256pp. Original red cloth with gilt titles. Very good indeed in a very good, slightly worn and rubbed dust jacket with slight chipping and tearing at top edge.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Association copy signed by Nancy Mitford on the half-title page and inscribed to Alvilde Lees-Milne. 114 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth-affect paper-covered boards, spine lettered in silver. Near Fine with foxing to textblock edges, endpapers, and prelims. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light wear, toning, and foxing. In 1955 the novelist Nancy Mitford published an article called "The English Aristocracy" on the identifying characters of the upper class to which she belonged. One year later, after a lively public debate, Mitford and her friends published this short collection of essays (and one poem) on the subject, illustrated by the cartoonist and set designer Osbert Lancaster. The prominent gardener Alvilde Lees-Milne, formerly Viscountess Chaplin, was a yet another close friend of Mitford, who once described her as "saintly." They all belonged to the intimate and exclusive world examined in this humorous little work of linguistic analysis and anthropology. Signed. …