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Tales My Father Taught Me. An Evocation of Extravagant Episodes.

Stock Code 106111

London, Hutchinson and Co., 1962

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First edition - with dustjacket by H. Cowdell. An exceptionally clean and bright first edition, bringing together some amplified versions of incidents in the author's five-volume autobiography, 'Left Hand, Right Hand', with some new anecdotes about his father, Sir George Sitwell.

First edition; 8vo; 15 black-and-white photographic illustrated plates (including frontispiece), grey endpapers, internally clean; publisher's green cloth, gilt lettering to blue panel on spine, blue topstain, clean and bright unclipped dust-jacket with a few minor marks, designed by H. Cowdell, overall a very good copy; [10], 206, [1]pp.

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Tales My Father Taught Me. An Evocation of Extravagant Episodes.

SITWELL, Osbert.

Stock code: 106111

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