A Pacifist’s War [with] Everything to Lose [with] Hanging On [with] Other People [with] Good Company [with] Life Regained [with] Ups and Downs
( Angelica GARNETT ) ( BLOOMSBURY GROUP ) PARTRIDGE, Frances
[Diaries 1939-1975].
THE PARTRIDGE DIARIES COMPLETE IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS; FIRST VOLUME SIGNED
Published: Hogarth Press [with] Gollancz [with] Harper Collins [with] Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1978[-2001]
Stock code: 49532
Price: £640.00
7 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome plates, final volume with coloured endpapers; cloth (brown/brown/red/blue/green/green/brown respectively), gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper.
THE FIRST VOLUME IS A PRESENTATION COPY, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR TO GEORGE HEYWOOD HILL AND LADY ANNE GATHORNE-HARDY. First two volumes with dustwrappers by Angelica Garnett. The set comprises A Pacifist's War. [Diary 1939-1945] (1978); Everything to Lose. Diaries 1945-1960 (1985); Hanging On. Diaries 1960-1963 (1990); Other People. Diaries 1963-1966 (1993); Good Company. Diaries 1967-1970 (1994); Life Regained. Diaries 1970-1972 (1998); Ups and Downs. Diaries 1972-1975 (2001). Evocative and often hilarious diaries from the last remaining member of the Bloomsbury Group. George Heywood Hill and Lady Anne Gathorne-Hardy (later his wife) founded the London bookshop which bears his name. A SPLENDID ASSOCIATION SET.