Edited Condensed Stanley Olson (3 results)

Condition: FINE. First American edition. Considered one of the most remarkable pictures of the period, incredibly detailed and astute, originally published in 3 volumes in 1968. Harold Nicolson was a member of Parliament from 1935 to 1945; a junior minister in Churchill's wartime government; a well-known writer, journalist and broadcaster; and the husband of the poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West. While this is a one-volume abridgement, but it also includes additional previously unpublished extracts from his letters and diaries. Index. 436 pp. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

1st edition, hardback, large 8vo, 436pp, frontispiece, slight foxing on page edges, text clean and binding sound, no inscriptions, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper. ISBN: 0689110979.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American edition thus. Octavo. 436pp. Introduction by Nigel Nicolson. Fine in a near fine lightly age-toned dust jacket. An abridgement of the three volumes published in the sixties with some new information added.