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Hard Cover, 8vo, 414pp.
Condition: Very Good, but with ghost of a paper clipped to title page.
Dust jacket dust-soiled and stained to spine, with some wear to edges.
Now protected in mylar.
** Collection of essays by the editor of "Horizon" literary magazine and one-time schoolfriend of George Orwell.
Includes "The Grand Tour", "Impressions of Egypt", "On Being Won Over to Coleridge", "Baudelaire", "The Breakthrough in Modern Verse", and The Egghead Shrinkers".
** Inscribed to front free endpaper: "Elizabeth, with lots of love and gratitude from Cyril.
Christmas 1963.
All our people are service people.
It's a wonder they could spare us.
" ** Provenance: By descent, from the library of Christopher Grey Tennant, 2nd Baron Glenconner (1899-1983) and his second wife Lady Elizabeth (née Powell), who were friends with various writers including Cyril Connolly, Stephen Spender and Anthony Powell.
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