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The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street John Saumarez Smith

The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street By John Saumarez Smith

The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street by John Saumarez Smith


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Summary

The delightful correspondence between novelist and bookseller Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill and reveals much about bookish life in this literary period.

The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street Summary

The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street: Letters between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill 1952-73 by John Saumarez Smith

Nancy Mitford was a brilliant personality, a remarkable novelist and a legendary letter writer. It is not widely known that she was also a bookseller. From 1942 to 1946 she worked in Heywood Hill's famous shop in Curzon Street, and effectively ran it when the male staff were called up for war service. After the war she left to live in France, but she maintained an abiding interest in the shop, its stock, and the many and varied customers who themselves form a cavalcade of the literary stars of post-war Britain. Her letters to Heywood Hill advise on recent French titles that might appeal to him and his customers, gossip engagingly about life in Paris, and enquire anxiously about the reception of her own books, while seeking advice about new titles to read. In return Heywood kept her up to date with customers and their foibles, and with aspects of literary and bookish life in London. Charming, witty, utterly irresistible, the correspondence gives brilliant insights into a world that has almost disappeared.

The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street Reviews

The collection gives a lovely taste of an era now long gone Daily Telegraph Charming, witty and utterly irresistible Sunday Telegraph

About John Saumarez Smith

John Saumerez Smith has worked at Heywood Hill's bookshop since 1965 and managed it since 1974. He reviews, catalogues and lectures on books, advises on private and other libraries, acts as Honorary Librarian at Chequers, and has been variously described as a book man, a book expert and a book doctor.

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GOR012843619
9780711225664
0711225664
The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street: Letters between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill 1952-73 by John Saumarez Smith
Used - Like New
Paperback
Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd
2005-10-01
192
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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