1984, ISBN: 9780002160063

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London: William Heinemann. Very Good. 1922. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. vi, 250 pages; Contents clean and secure in original light brown cloth with gilt lettering at spine… Mehr…

London: William Heinemann. Very Good. 1922. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. vi, 250 pages; Contents clean and secure in original light brown cloth with gilt lettering at spine and front board; usual toning to endpapers; a couple very tiny perforations in the gutter of rear hinge; a nice example of this uncommon V.S.W. first edition. Former owner's name signed on ffep "Mr. Jay / Penara 1922" The Heir is a novel on the theme of inheritance and property, a matter quite personal to the author. Provenance: Peter Augustus Jay (1877 – 1933) was an American diplomat who served as U.S. General Consul to Egypt, U.S. Minister to El Salvador and Romania and U.S. Ambassador to Argentina. He was the great, great grandson of John Jay, first United States Chief Justice and he was the father of Susan Mary Patten Alsop, author and prominant Washingtonian. Jay studied at Eton College in England and graduated from Harvard University with an A.B. in 1900. In 1902, he began his long career with the U.S. Foreign Service as the third secretary of the American embassy in Paris followed by service in Constantinople where he continued until 1907 when he was appointed Chargé d'Affaires in Tokyo. He served in Japan until 1909 when President William Howard Taft placed him as Consul General to Egypt in Cairo (1910-1913). Jay next served as U.S. Minister to El Salvador under President Woodrow Wilson, then from 1921 until 1925 Jay was U.S. Minister to Romania. In Romania, he assisted in negotiating that country's repayment terms of $42,000,0000 for wartime and post World War I development loans. It was during his time in Romania that he acquired this book. From the collection of Susan Mary Patten Alsop, a popular historian and a pillar of Washington society, was the daughter of a diplomat, a descendant of founding father John Jay and served with her first husband Bill Patten at the American Embassy in Paris in the 1950s. When her husband died in 1960, she married Joseph Alsop, the journalist, the following year. In the 1970s she embarked on her own literary career producing "To Marietta From Paris: 1945-1960" (1974), followed by "Lady Sackville: A Biography" (1978), "Yankees at the Court: The First Americans in Paris" (1982), and "The Congress Dances: Vienna 1814-1815" (1984). Her Georgetown homes (both with and without Alsop) hosted dignitaries, publishers and a variety of interesting people during the 1960s and 1970s including such luminaries as John F. Kennedy, Phil Graham, Katharine Graham, and Isaiah Berlin, earning her the nickname "the grand dame of Washington society," (to which she rather objected). ., William Heinemann, 1922, 3, George Braziller, 1957. Cloth. Very Good. Six volumes, slightly smaller, thinner books, fine brown cloth, each volume with individual titles in fine gilt lettering and black background on spines, light surface wear to spine bottoms, in heavy black slipcase with titles and editors on one side. Volume I: The Age of Belief--The Medieval Philosophers, 278 pages. Volume II: The Age of Adventures--The Renaissance Philosophers by Giorgio de Santillana, 283 pages. Volume III: The Age of Reason--Seventeenth Century Philosophers by Stuart Hampshire, 186 pages. Tiny light spot on back right. Volume IV: The Age of Enlightenment--Eighteenth Century Philosophers by Isaiah Berlin, 282 lightly browned pages. Volume V: The Age of Ideology--Nineteenth Century Philosophers by Henry D> Aiken, 283 pages. Volume VI: The Age of Analysis--Twentieth Century Philosophers by Morton White, 253 pages. Very Good set, in Good slipcase., George Braziller, 1957, 3, London: Chatto & Windus In Association With Collins London, 1973. Assumed First Edition . Hard Back. Very Good/Good. 6 1/2" X 9 1/2. 400 Pages Indexed. Aldous Huxley, whose works were translated and studied throughout the world, will surely rank as one of the outstanding English men of letters of his time. His enquiring mind and acute intelligence led him into many and diverse fields of thought. Indeed, as Sir Isaiah Berlin wrote, o Aldous Huxley with that special sensibility to the contours of the future which impersonal artists sometimes possess, stood on the edge of, and peered beyond, the present frontiers of our self-knowledge. He was a wholly civilised, good and scrupulous man, and one of the greatest imaginable distinction'. He was also a man of great sweetness of temper, with an unfailing sense of enjoyment and fun, and this made his company endlessly stimulating and entertaining. In writing the biography of such a man, Sybille Bedford, a friend of some thirty years, gives shape and coherence to the development of a life, that for all its extraordinary quality, had it common share of ups and downs. As a girl she lived for long periods in his household: the details of his life - gossip, picnics, jokes, money, work, the endless house-moves - were familiar to her at first hand. His friends were, often, her friends. His immense reading helped to form her mind. Like him her great distinction as a writer extends over other Iorms besides the novels for which she is best known on both sides of the Atlantic. So perfect a coming together of author and subject could hardly fail to produce biography of a high order, and no blurb can do justice to the richness, variety, and humanity of this book., Chatto & Windus In Association With Collins London, 1973, 2.75<

1973, ISBN: 0002160064

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[EAN: 9780002160063], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Chatto & Windus, London], LITERATURE & LITERARY BZDB243 SCI-FI, PHILOSOPHY, HISTORY, MYSTICISM, UNIVERSALISM, PERENNIALISM LITERARY; E… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780002160063], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Chatto & Windus, London], LITERATURE & LITERARY BZDB243 SCI-FI, PHILOSOPHY, HISTORY, MYSTICISM, UNIVERSALISM, PERENNIALISM LITERARY; ENGLAND; MODERN; BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY. UNBRANDED ISBN: 0002160064 EAN: 9780002160063 SYBILLE BEDFORD ALDOUS HUXLEY: A BIOGRAPHY. VOLUME ONE: 1894-1939 AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Jacket, Size: 8vo - over 7.75 - 9.75" tall. xvi + 400pp. One volume of the 2-volume set. Binding firm. Dust jacket in protective plastic cover affixed to pastedowns with tape. Edges browned. Brown marks from adhesive tape on front and rear endpapers. Ex-library, with usual stamps and markings. Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Literature & Literary; England; Modern; Biography & Autobiography. ISBN: 0002160064. ISBN/EAN: 9780002160063. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 42436. This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries., Books<

1973, ISBN: 0002160064

[EAN: 9780002160063], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [SC: 6.57], [PU: Chatto and Windus], BIOGRAPHY, Volume 1. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings insi… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780002160063], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [SC: 6.57], [PU: Chatto and Windus], BIOGRAPHY, Volume 1. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,850grams, ISBN:0002160064, Books<