Authorial presentation inscription on half title to Clarissa dated 14 July 1950. Work Suspended and other stories written before the Second World War. Presentation inscription to Clarissa dated 24 November 1949. Authorial presentation inscription to Beatrice and with Anthony Eden’s bookplate. He was a composer (admired by Stravinsky), writer, painter, aesthete and eccentric, indeed in Mark Amorys words The Last Eccentric, famously dyeing the. Authorial presentation inscription to Clarissa dated June 1945.
The dedication copy, inscribed by Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson on the dedication leaf to Clarissa, dated October 1941.
All bound in publisher’s cloth (extremities lightly rubbed), comprising: BERNERS, Lord (1883-1950). He also began to publish books, starting with the first volume of his autobiography First Childhood (1934), and followed by The Camel (1936). Interesting group of works, most presented to Clarissa Spencer-Churchill, including Evelyn Waugh’s Work Suspended, and the dedication copy of Lord Berners’ Percy Wallingford and Mr.
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