Edited by John Saumarez Smith

The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street : Letters between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill 1952-73.

London: Frances Lincoln, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition / Fine Condition. Item #376000
ISBN: 0711224528

191 pages. Original black boards, gilt lettered, in a very fine dustwrapper. Seemingly unread. John Saumarez Smith’s edition of The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street presents two decades of correspondence between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill, revealing a friendship sustained by wit, gossip, and the shared pleasures of literary life. The letters chart Mitford's Paris years, her publishing triumphs, and her affectionate reliance on Hill's taste, humour, and unfailing ability to procure exactly the right books. What emerges is a portrait of a bookshop as social nexus: part salon, part refuge, part clearing‑house for news and literary chatter. Saumarez Smith's contextual notes frame the exchanges without intruding, allowing Mitford's sparkle and Hill's dry charm to animate a vanished world of personal bookselling, where relationships mattered as much as stock. Size: 12.5 x 19.5 cms. Category: Varied Books; Books on Books; New Arrivals. ISBN: 0711224528. ISBN/EAN: 9780711224520. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost.

Keywords: BZDB395 Varied Books; Books on Books; New Arrivals. Unbranded ISBN: 0711224528 EAN: 9780711224520 Edited by John Saumarez Smith The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street : Letters between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill 1952-73.

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