Harold Nicolson: Diaries and Letters 1930 - 1964

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New York:: Atheneum,, 1980.. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First American edition. Considered one of the most remarkable pictures of the period, incredibly detailed and astute, originally published in 3 volumes in 1968. Harold Nicolson was a member of Parliament from 1935 to 1945; a junior minister in Churchill's wartime government; a well-known writer, journalist and broadcaster; and the husband of the poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West. While this is a one-volume abridgement, but it also includes additional previously unpublished extracts from his letters and diaries. Index. 436 pp.