The bookshop at 10 Curzon Street : letters between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill, 1952-73
Mitford, Nancy , 1904-1973
The bookshop at 10 Curzon Street : letters between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill, 1952-73 Bookshop at Ten Curzon Street / edited by John Saumarez Smith - 1st Frances Lincoln ed - London : Frances Lincoln , 2004. - 191 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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. Show More Show Less
9780711224520
2005415304
012959246 Uk
Mitford, Nancy , 1904-1973 ----Correspondence
Hill, Heywood , 1906-1986 ----Correspondence
Authors, English---20th century----Correspondence
Bookstores----History----England----London
Booksellers and bookselling----Correspondence----Great Britain
Z325 / .M67 2004
92 MIT
The bookshop at 10 Curzon Street : letters between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill, 1952-73 Bookshop at Ten Curzon Street / edited by John Saumarez Smith - 1st Frances Lincoln ed - London : Frances Lincoln , 2004. - 191 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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. Show More Show Less
9780711224520
2005415304
012959246 Uk
Mitford, Nancy , 1904-1973 ----Correspondence
Hill, Heywood , 1906-1986 ----Correspondence
Authors, English---20th century----Correspondence
Bookstores----History----England----London
Booksellers and bookselling----Correspondence----Great Britain
Z325 / .M67 2004
92 MIT