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PRICE Nancy - The Heart of a Vagabond. [Foreword by Sir Norman Birkett.] SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR WITH PHOTOGRAPH AND A.l.u

Museum Press,, [1955]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates; green cloth, backstrip lettered in yellow, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly rubbed at extremities and with loss (affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip. Arguably the most evocative of the author's several books expressing her knowledge of, and love for, the South Downs of Sussex. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HER SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE : 'TO THE LADY WHOSE FACE ALWAYS GIVES ME PLEASURE' AND ADDITIONAL QUOTATION 'OUT OF THE COMPLICATED HOUSE CAME I TO WALK BENEATH THE SKY'. Loosely inserted is a signed photograph of the author and an unsigned holograph letter on stationery giving her summer (High Salvington, Sussex) and winter (Brompton Road, London) residences. Nancy Price CBE (1880-1970), actress, author and theatre director, and founder of the People's National Theatre (based at the Little Theatre, Adelphi, in the heart of London's theatreland, until its destruction in the Blitz of 1941).
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