Some people
by NICOLSON, Harold
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1927. vi, 247pp, [1]. Original publisher's orange cloth, lettered in black. Without dustwrapper. Extremities marked and a trifle rubbed, spine sunned. Endpapers browned, occasional spotting. The first edition of politician Sir Harold George Nicolson's (1886-1968) peculiar amalgam of memoir and fiction, providing sketches of nine invented characters in Edwardian England. Virginia Woolf praised the book as a harbinger of a new attitude toward biography: '[Nicolson] has devised a method of writing about people and about himself as though they were at once real and imaginary...He has succeeded remarkably, if not entirely, in making the best of both worlds'. . First edition. 8vo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Antiquates Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AQ23732
- Title
- Some people
- Author
- NICOLSON, Harold
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Constable & Co. Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1927
- Keywords
- Literature
- Size
- 8vo
Terms of Sale
Antiquates Ltd
Antiquates Ltd was established by Tom Lintern-Mole in 2007; we travel far and wide to buy, sell, and advise on rare books and manuscripts.
Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
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We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
About the Seller
Antiquates Ltd
Biblio member since 2008
Wareham, Dorset
About Antiquates Ltd
Mail Order and Internet, but in normal times we have an antiquarian bookshop in the Dorset countryside.
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- Dustwrapper
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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