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Harries, Susie
Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life
Publisher: Chatto & Windus, London;
Date of Publication: 2011
Stock Code: 11816
SIGNED FIRST EDITION, SECOND IMPRESSION. Review copy with associated ephemera. Large octavo, pp. xii, [2], [1]-866. Numerous archive photographs to plates. Publishers’ midnight blue cloth with silver titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Publishers’ Review request slip and a printed copy of the review by Professor John L Taylor loosely inserted. Spine lightly creased at tips but cover cloth bright. Author’s signature, without dedication, to title page; 5 cm closed tear at hinge of half-title and a couple of marks to fore-edge otherwise contents clean. Jacket slightly creased to edge with small surface nick to spine. A Near Fine copy in like jacket. Biography of the influential Russian architectural scholar who fled Nazi persecution to become the authority on the Buildings of England, by the first of his biographers to have access to the great man’s private papers. Heavyweight so a contribution towards increased postage costs will be requested for overseas delivery. £35.00