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The Rainbow comes and goes [with] The Light of Common Day [with] Trumpets from the Steep.  THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL TRILOGY WITH SIGNED PROGRAMME

The Rainbow comes and goes [with] The Light of Common Day [with] Trumpets from the Steep. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL TRILOGY WITH SIGNED PROGRAMME

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The Rainbow comes and goes [with] The Light of Common Day [with] Trumpets from the Steep. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL TRILOGY WITH SIGNED PROGRAMME

by COOPER Diana

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Hart-Davis,, 1958[-60]. 3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with 3 frontispieces, very numerous plates and pictorial endpapers; original cloth (red/blue/green respectively) upper boards blocked in gilt, gilt backs, coloured tops (blue/red/grey respectively), a very good, clean set in unclipped dustwrapper, the wrappers lightly chafed at extremities (a little more so on first volume). LOOSELY INSERTED IS A FOYLES LUNCHEON PROGRAMME (1980) SIGNED BY DIANA COOPER (AND LADY ANTONIA FRASER). With small personal bookplate on half-title of first volume. The trilogy comprises The Rainbow Comes and Goes (1958), The Light of Common Day (1959) and Trumpets from the Steep (1960). The Foyles Luncheon (Chairman Dr. Roy Strong), was held to celebrate publication of 'Feminine Beauty' by Lord Kenneth Clark. COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE INCREASINGLY SCARCE.

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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
The Rainbow comes and goes [with] The Light of Common Day [with] Trumpets from the Steep. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL TRILOGY WITH SIGNED PROGRAMME
Author
COOPER Diana
Book Condition
Used
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
Hart-Davis,
Date Published
1958[-60]
Keywords
modern first editions, modern firsts, diana cooper, duff cooper, lady diana cooper

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