Ɵ LEES-MILNE, James. (1908 - 1997). Roman Mornings. Author's Presentation copy to Sacheverell and Georgia Sitwell. London: Alan Wingate, (1956). single volume, first edition, 8vo. (223 x 145mm), publisher's burgundy cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, illustration after Lynton Lamb, inscribed and dated by the author in black ink to front free e/p., 'To Sachie & Georgia, / with much affection from / Jim, 26.5.56', title in red and black, half-title, dedicated to Sacheverell, 'To Sacheverell Sitwell who looks at architecture with the eye of a poet', 13 plates, (including frontispiece). The author's fourth book.(George) James Henry Lees-Milne was a British architectural historian, novelist and biographer. His extensive diaries have been compared with that of Samuel Pepys and hailed as 'a treasure of contemporary English literature'. Lees-Milne was friends with many prominent intellectual and social figures of his day. In 1951 he married Alvilde, Viscountess Chaplin, a prominent gardening and landscape expert. Both were bisexual. Alvilde is reputed to have had lesbian affairs with Vita Sackville-West and others.Provenance: The Library of Dame Edith Sitwell.(Qty. 1)
Ɵ LEES-MILNE, James. (1908 - 1997). Roman Mornings. Author's Presentation copy to Sacheverell and Georgia Sitwell. London: Alan Wingate, (1956). single volume, first edition, 8vo. (223 x 145mm), publisher's burgundy cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, illustration after Lynton Lamb, inscribed and dated by the author in black ink to front free e/p., 'To Sachie & Georgia, / with much affection from / Jim, 26.5.56', title in red and black, half-title, dedicated to Sacheverell, 'To Sacheverell Sitwell who looks at architecture with the eye of a poet', 13 plates, (including frontispiece). The author's fourth book.(George) James Henry Lees-Milne was a British architectural historian, novelist and biographer. His extensive diaries have been compared with that of Samuel Pepys and hailed as 'a treasure of contemporary English literature'. Lees-Milne was friends with many prominent intellectual and social figures of his day. In 1951 he married Alvilde, Viscountess Chaplin, a prominent gardening and landscape expert. Both were bisexual. Alvilde is reputed to have had lesbian affairs with Vita Sackville-West and others.Provenance: The Library of Dame Edith Sitwell.(Qty. 1)
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