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Ancestral Voices

Ancestral Voices

Ancestral Voices
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Ancestral Voices

by Lees-Milne, James

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Condition
Very Good condition./No Dust Jacket
ISBN 10
0684156474
ISBN 13
9780684156477
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975. A clean, square copy. No owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Pages are clean and crisp. Frontispiece portrait of the author in 1940. Endpaper illustrations of West Wycombe Park and Blickling Hall. Bound in the original lime green cloth. First American printing with complete number row on the copyright page. Index. The English author and architectural conservationist James Lees-Milne (1908-1997) is said to be one of the 20th century's greatest diarists. ANCESTRAL VOICES offers his wartime diaries for the years 1942 and 1943. They are notable not only for their literary qualities, but for vivid portrayals of London during the German air raids, and for JLM's trenchant observations while serving as the first Historic Buildings Secretary for the National Trust, a position he held 1936-51. With wit and keen insight he also records the gossip and anecdotes of daily life within his circle of friends, including Ivy Compton-Burnett, Osbert Lancaster, Nancy Mitford, Harold Nicolson, Vita Sackville-West, Cecil Beaton, Lady Cunard, and many others. . First Printing of the First U.S. Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good condition./No Dust Jacket. 8vo. x, 302pp..

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Bookseller
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Bookseller's Inventory #
003921
Title
Ancestral Voices
Author
Lees-Milne, James
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good condition.
Jacket Condition
No Dust Jacket
Edition
First Printing of the First U.S. Edition
ISBN 10
0684156474
ISBN 13
9780684156477
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1975
Bookseller catalogs
Autobiography; Architecture; Literature / Literary Biography / Criticism;
Size
8vo. x, 302pp.

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