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The Country Cousin.

AUCHINCLOSS, Louis (1917-2010).

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978. SIGNED First Edition. Octavo. pp. 239. In publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original dust jacket featuring a very light monochrome image of a man sitting at a desk next to closed blinds. Brown and red titles. Inscribed to recto of front free end-paper by the author: 'For Gordon Ray, with friendship and admiration, sincerely Louis', dated 14th September 1978. Near-fine. A novel set amidst the society of the Old Guard of New York in the 1930's. Item #45356

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