Author: MEYNELL, FRANCIS 1891-1975.
Title: My Lives . Francis Meynell . (signed).
Description: London : Bodley Head, 1971 . 0370013034. Autobiography of Sir Francis Meynell, recalling his many 'lives', as journalist, poet, publisher, publicist, sportsman and businessman, with descriptions of the many eminent personalities he encountered. Signed first edition with 3 loosely inserted letters signed by Francis Meynell. pp.332 / [24 plates] . Clean tan cloth boards with black spine blocks, stamped in gold on spine. Cream dust jacket printed in black and red with illustration depicting a bear reproduced on front cover and photograph of the author on back. Not price clipped. Edges lightly rubbed and covers lightly soiled. Includes index and bibliographic notes. Illustrated with 24 pages of plates. Inscription to half-title: "I wish I had given 'My Lives' to Bronsula, who have given so much to me. Francis 80" . Two letters are dated 1957 and one is dated 1964. All three letters are addressed to 'Bronsula' , signed 'Francis', and express his thanks for Bronsula's time and assistance. A very good book with an interesting provenance. ** "Sir Francis Meredith Wilfrid Meynell (12 May 1891 – 10 July 1975) was a British poet and printer at The Nonesuch Press. Meynell married three times. His first wife was Hilda Peppercorn (1886-1962), daughter of painter Arthur Douglas Peppercorn. She was a concert pianist who performed using the name Hilda Saxe. She married Meynell in 1914 and they had one child, Cynthia. In 1925, following his divorce from Hilda, Meynell married Vera Rosalind Wynn Mendel (1895-1947). She was the daughter of Edith Wynne and William Mendel, a German born financier who had underwritten several stock market flotations in the late 19th century including Harrods and D. H. Evans. Vera and their mutual friend David Garnett provided the initial funding for the Nonesuch Press; she also helped in the early days with production and distribution. They had a son in 1930 (Benedict) and divorced in 1945. Vera took her own life on August 4, 1947. Meynell was knighted in 1946 and in the same year married Alix Kilroy (1903–1999), a civil servant with the Board of Trade. They worked together during World War II on Utility Design, an austere and functional style. After the war they lived and farmed at Cobbold's Mill, Monks Eleigh, near Lavenham in Suffolk for many years." - See Wikipedia .

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