£20
Nancy Mitford, 2 titles, both first editions published London, Hamish Hamilton, both original cloth gilt: 'The Pursuit of Love', 1945, and the companion volume 'Love in a Cold Climate', 1949. Mitford's most famous novels, which satirize British aristocracy in the '20s and '30s through the amorous adventures of the Radletts, an exuberantly unconventional family closely modeled on Mitford's own; together with Paul Bowles: 'The Hours after Noon', L, Heinemann, 1959, 1st edition, orig. cloth (slightly soiled) lettered in silver, Elizabeth Taylor: 'Hester Lilkly and Twelve Short Stories', NY, Viking Press, 1954, 1st US edition, orig. cloth backed paper covered boards, Compton Mackenzie: 'All Over the Place', L, C & W, 1948, 1st edition, orig. cloth gilt (5)