Queen Mary and others / Osbert Sitwell
1974, First Edition. London : Michael Joseph. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #398767
ISBN: 0718112229
Physical description; 172 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates, leaf of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm. Notes; "Set and printed in Great Britain by Western Printing Services Ltd, Bristol in eleven on thirteen point Imprint and bound by James Burn at Esher, Surrey."--Title page verso. Foreword by Sir Harold Acton. Contents; Foreword by Sir Harold Acton -- Queen Mary -- Fortune-tellers -- What it feels like to be an author -- Portrait of a very young man -- A bunch of snowdrops -- Dining-room piece -- New York in the twenties -- Old worlds for new -- Lord Grey de Ruthyn -- London 1943 -- The Magnasco Society -- Moving house. Subjects; Sitwell, Osbert 1892-1969. Mary Queen, consort of George V, King of Great Britain 1867-1953. Authors, English 20th century ; Biography. English literature. Essays in english, 1900-1945 texts. Essays Queen Mary Social Life 20th Twentieth Century.
Price: €21.95