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050	0	0	_aZ325 _b.M67 2004
082	0	4	_a92 MIT
100	1		_aMitford, Nancy _d, 1904-1973
245	1	4	_aThe bookshop at 10 Curzon Street _b: letters between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill, 1952-73 _c/ edited by John Saumarez Smith
246	3		_aBookshop at Ten Curzon Street
250			_a1st Frances Lincoln ed
260			_aLondon _b: Frances Lincoln _c, 2004.
300			_a191 p., [8] p. of plates _b: ill. _c; 21 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
520			_aNancy 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
600	1	0	_aMitford, Nancy _d, 1904-1973 _x--Correspondence
600	1	0	_aHill, Heywood _d, 1906-1986 _x--Correspondence
650		4	_aAuthors, English _y-20th century _v--Correspondence
650		0	_aBookstores _z--England _z--London _x--History
650		4	_aBooksellers and bookselling _z--Great Britain _x--Correspondence
700	1		_aHill, Heywood _d, 1906-1986
700	1		_aSmith, John Saumarez
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