Wait For Me! Memoirs of the Youngest Mitford Sister

DEVONSHIRE, Deborah (1920-2014)

Published by London: John Murray, 2010

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[Literary memoir] First edition, fourth printing. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xiv; 370. Illustrated with four suites of photographic plates. Publisher's black cloth, illustrated jacket priced £20. Neat ink name to free endpaper. Text block slightly toned else fine. Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, DCVO (born Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford and latterly Deborah, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire; English aristocrat, writer, memoirist, and socialite. She was the youngest and last surviving of the six Mitford sisters. There are several references within to Ann Fleming, the socialite wife of Ian, and to several of their circle; Cyril Connolly, Cecil Beaton, Noel Coward, Lady Kemsley, Patrick Leigh-Fermor, President Kennedy, Evelyn Waugh, etc. This copy is from the Ian Fleming Bibliographical Archive assembled by Jon Gilbert, with his pencilled notes and ownership to endpaper. His comprehensive guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Gilbert. Ian Fleming The Bibliography, p.650.

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Wait For Me! Memoirs of the Youngest Mitford Sister

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London: John Murray, 2010

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