DIARIES AND LETTERS OF HAROLD NICOLSON: 1930-1939 by Nicolson, Nigel - 1966

NY: Atheneum, 1967. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Large 8 vo. 511 pp. Index, b/w photo plates, blue boards, top edge yellow, clipping re: Nicolson laid in. Name/date front end paper, very good; dust jacket pieces missing worn, poor. Book Club Edition..

New York: Atheneum, 1966. First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Good+ to Very Good DJs. First American Edition. Hardcover. First US edition of the diaries and letters of the Bloomsbury figure Harold Nicolson, spanning the period of 1930 to 1962. Husband of Vita Sackville-West and a fellow member of the Bloomsbury Group, the his papers were edited and published by his son, Nigel Nicolson. Nigel was the founder of Weidenfeld & Nicolson and notably published Nabokov's 'Lolita'. Minimal shelf/edge wear, else tight, bright, and unmarred; DJs show light shelf/edge wear, spines lightly toned, moisture stain near heel of Vol. 1., two small holes at head and tail of Vol 1 near gutter, else bright and clean. Blue cloth boards, endpages vary in red, green, and blue, topstains in red, yellow, and blue. 8vo. 448; 511; 448pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Index.