"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."
— Marcel Proust
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1956, 1957. [Essays] FIRST EDITION. Two volumes, octavos (21 x 14cm), pp.189; [3], blank; 209; [3], blank. Publisher's hardcover bindings, pictorial dust-jackets. Some light general wear/ handling, gift inscription to first volume, not price clipped. Very good. A selection of Peter Fleming's writings from The Spectator, plus the companion book. Includes 'The Small Ghosts', about his prep school days, boarding at Durnford School (with brother Ian Fleming) on the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset. Item #66781
Price: £75.00
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