Condition: Very Good - in Good DJ. DJ slightly ruffled along edges with several small nicks and very slight loss. Inscription to ffep. A little bruised at head, tail and corners with slight fraying. Internally bright and clean. :: Further Information: Portraiture frontispiece. 475pp. Index. Size: 8vo Royal (25 x 16cm Approx.) Dust wrapper in protective, removable sleeve. First Edition. Weighs 0.925 Kg. which exceeds standard rates. ::

Condition: Near Fine - in Near Fine DJ. :: Further Information: Part detective story, part family saga and part an oblique voyage of self-discovery, this book is an entrancing and elegiac story, startlingly funny, profoundly moving: a very English trgi-comedy.Illustrated with B&W photographs. 306pp. First Edition. Weighs 0.800 Kg. which exceeds standard rates. ::

Hard Cover. Very Good -/No Jacket. 5/9/2003 5/9/2003

First American edition (stated). A fine book in fine dustjacket. Illustrated in colour and black and white. Part criticism, part biography. Previous owner's bookplate on inside of front cover

Near Fine. First edition. A fine book in a very good jacket indeed.

BCA version. Book is in good condition, including the dust cover, although there is a small water stain on the spine area of the dust cover. Internally sound. Priced to cover the price of this very heavy book. Volume 2 available too.

BCA version. Book is in good condition, including the dust cover, although there is a small water stain on the spine area of the dust cover. Internally sound. Priced to cover the price of this very heavy book. Volume 1 available too.

Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Good Hard Cover First Edition Hugh Kingsmill was born in London and educated at Harrow School and the University of Oxford. After graduating he worked for a brief period for Frank Harris, who edited the publication Hearth and Home in 1911/2, alongside Enid Bagnold; Kingsmill later wrote a debunking biography of Harris, after the spell had worn off. He fought in the British Army in World War I from 1916, being captured France in 1917. He began to write after the war, initially both science fiction and crime fiction. In the 1930s he was a reviewer for the English Review. Hugh Kingsmill wrote criticism, essays and biographies, parodies and humour, as well as novels, and edited a number of anthologies. Arnold Lunn and the writer Brian Lunn were his brothers. He is remembered for saying 'friends are God's apology for relations', with a notable flavour of Ambrose Bierce. The dictum was subsequently used by Richard Ingrams for the title of his memoir of Kingsmill's friendships with Hesketh Pearson and Malcolm Muggeridge, two intimate friends whom he influenced greatly.