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New Castle: Oak Knoll Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1995. New Edition. Hardcover. 1884718124 .

Oak Knoll Press. The book and the dust jacket are bright and crisp. No markings. Never been used. . Fine. Hardcover. 1995.

New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll. VG+/Near Fine (see notes). 1995. 1st. hardcover. 8vo . 224pp . Very minor foxing to top and fore-edges. .

New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, (1995).. First US edition.. x + 224 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.

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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 1995. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. Very good/very good. yellow cloth, black cloth, dust jacket, 224 pp Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 1995. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. First Edition. x, 221pp+ index. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket.

London: Werner Shaw Ltd., 1986. First Edition 8vo size brown clothbound hardcover; 224 page with index. From jacket: "After three years of sharing a house in London's St. John's Wood with a moody, elderly Russian who was translating Tchekhov. Barbara Kaye and her husband Percy Muir moved in 1938 to a Tudor cottage in north-west Essex, in joyful anticipation of at last having a home to themselves. Whilst she coped with a young daughter, domestic crises, garden and chickens - and tried to write a novel - he commuted to London to carry on his antiquarian book business in Duke Street." Percy Muir (1894 - 1979) was a prominent antiquarian bookseller with the Elkins Matthews firm and author of several books related to book collecting. Barbara Kaye Muir (1908 - 1998) was an English novelist. She and Percy Muir married in 1937. Kaye was also involved in Elkins Matthews. She also wrote several memoirs, including this one. Jacket covered by mylar (not ex-library.) Booksellers… Read More

London: Werner Shaw, 1986. Describing the author's wartime experiences giving house room to a number of eminent writers of the day who were taking refuge from London's blitz. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Signed by the author on title page. A good clean copy.. Signed by Author. First Edition. hardcover. Good/Good. Used.

New Castle, Delaware, U.S.A.: Oak Knoll Pr, 1995. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. Fine, unread copy in fine jacket. As new..

Oak Knoll Press, 1995. Hardcover. Very Good+/Near Fine. Very good or better in near fine jacket. Clean, bright yellow cloth with minor bump to right edge of front board, about an inch from top corner. Else, a tight and clean copy.

New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 1995. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. New Castle, Oak Knoll Press, 1995/ 1986. Octavo; cloth slightly nudged at the head and foot of the spine; an excellent copy with the fine dustwrapper.

London : Werner Shaw, in collaboration with Elkin Mathews, 1986. First edition. Both a personal memoir of the years 1938-1945 and the story of the Elkin Mathews business at that time. With much on her husband, the bookseller Percy Muir (the book forming a sequel to his own "Minding My Own Business"), but with sidelights on an eccentric cast of characters including the actress Phyllis Calvert, Rupert Cross, Ian Fleming, Peter Murray Hill, the translator Koteliansky, E. H. W. Meyerstein, A. J. A. Symons, Hugh Walpole, Greville Worthington, etc. Medium 8vo (24cm). (x),224,[vi]pp. Illustrations. Portraits. Original brown boards, lettered in gilt; slight bruise to fore-edge, but a very good copy in the dust-jacket - a photographic design in sepia monochrome, lettered in orange and white - just faintly sunned and lightly marked, but also very good.