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New York: Scribner, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Two-tone boards. Pp. (x), 502. Illustrated. Index.

New York: Grove Press, 1999. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp xx, 536. Illustrated. Index. Translated by Charles Kessler. Introduction by Ian Buruma. Kessler (1868-1937) was a German diplomat and publisher who moved in the world of art, politics and society. He lived in Berlin but travelled widely in Europe which he observed keenly. Today he is remember especially because of his limited edition art books.

London: J. M. Dent, 2000. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Boards. Pp. xxvi, 1062. Index. Edited by Paul Ferris. The first collection of Thomas' letters appeared in 1985, but since then many more--over a hundred--have been found and are included in this edition.

New York: Liveright Publishing Corp./W. W. Norton, 2012. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Boards. Pp. xxii, 598. Short List of Further Reading. Index. Edited by Peter Davidson. Introduction by Christopher Hitchens.

London: Collins, 1966-68. First editions. Hardcover. Very good copy/frayed. Three 8vo volumes. Boards. Illustrated. Edited by Nigel Nicolson. "Times" obituary and other articles pasted or laid in at end of Volume I. Harold Nicolson began keeping a diary in 1929 and continued recording his observations about politics and friends until October 1964. He witnessed some remarkable events, particularly in Parliament during the War.

New York and London: Bloomsbury, 2001. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Boards. Pp. viii, 439. Illustrated: (32) pp. of plates. Edited by John Lahr.

New York: Michael de Capua Books, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Ink mark on bottom edge. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. liv, 1050. Chronology. Glossary. Index. Edited and Introduced by Katherine Bucknell.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. First American Edition (Unexpurgated). Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Two-tone boards. Pp. lii, 314. Illustrated: 8 pp. of plates. Checklist. Edited by Joan Acocella. Translated by Kyril Fitzlyon.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Boards. Pp. xlx, 392, (vi). Illustrated. Notes. Index.

First edition. 8vo. Two-tone boards. Pp. (x), 230. Fine copy with its dust-jacket.The "famous people" include Mark Twain, P. G. Wodehouse and Groucho Marx whose flight of fancy are indeed amusing.

London: John Murray, 2009. Reprinted. Paperback. Fine copy. Paper-bound. Pp. xxvi, 390. Illustrated: (16) pp. of plates, many drawings in text. Index of Names and Nicknames. Index.

London; Boston: Faber and Faber, 1985. Limited edition. First edition. Hardcover. As new copy. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. 512. Frontispiece portrait of the author by Larry Rivers. Index. Preserved in a cloth-covered slip-case. This is number 42 of 150 copies signed by the author. Edited by John Goldsmith.

London: HarperCollins, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Cloth. Pp. xx, 312. Main Correspondents Index. Edited by Russell Davies. The comedian Kenneth Williams took great care in writing to his friends and gave teach of them a full measure of his remarkable personality. His correspondents included Maggie Smith, Joe Orton, Richard Burton and others less well known.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. xxviii, 224 (iv). Frontispiece. Checklist. Index. Edited with a Foreword by Michael Ermarth. Translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider.

New York: Random House, 1998. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Two-tone boards. Pp. xvi, 672. Illustrated. Index. Edited by Kathleen Tynan. Preface by Leon Wieseltier.

London: Faber and Faber, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Boards. Pp. xxviii, 612. Illustrated. Filmography. Index. Edited by David Thompson and Lorraine LoBianco. Translated by Craig Carlson, Natasha Arnoldi, Michael Wells, Anneliese Varaldiev.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Red dot on bottom edge; else fine/fine. 8vo. Boards. Pp. (ii), xii, 784, (ii). Illustrated. Index Edited and with Commentary by Barry Day.

London: Guy Chapman, 1925. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Something poorly removed from first paste-down end-paper. Corners crushed.. 4to. Buckram over bevelled boards. Pp. xx, 212. Number 662 of 750 copies printed on Rives paper. Translated from the Latin by C. K. Scott-Moncrieff.

London: Quartet Books, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Boards. Pp. (iv), 530. Index. Edited by Nico Naldini. Translated by Stuart Hood.

New York: M. Evans and Company, Inc, 1994. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. xiv, 306. Illustrated: (8) pp. of plates. Index. Edited by Oriel Malet. Daphne du Maurier began a correspondence with Oriel Malet in the early 1950s following a chance meeting. The two women remained friends and in these revealing letters over some thirty years she writes about all aspects of her life and work.