Tudor A Time To Keep

Kaye, Barbara: COMPANY WE KEPT.|THE, New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 1995
Reprint of the first edition. In 1938, after three years of sharing a house in London with a moody, elderly Russian who translated Chekhov, Barbara Kaye and her husband, Percy Muir, move to a Tudor cottage in northwest Essex, in joyful anticipation of having a home to themselves at last. As she handles a young daughter, domestic crises, a garden, chickens and writes novels - Percy commutes to London to carry on his antiquarian book business at Elkin Mathews in Duke Street. Eighteen months later, on the eve of war, the business and staff join the exodus of evacuees from London to room with the Muirs, along with parents and dog, in their draughty and already over-crowded cottage. In this entertaining and very personal sequel to Percy Muir's MINDING MY OWN BUSINESS, Barbara Kaye describes the struggle to keep the firm of Elkin Mathews going while, as they host an egotistical author engaged on a book on women, an eccentric poet, the creator of James Bond and other friends who come for temporary refuge from the Blitz. Writers and artists living in northwest Essex at the time come into story, amongst them A.J.A. Symons, Marjorie Allingham and A.E. Coppard. The book also gives a vivid picture of war-time life in a village where American Forces were stationed.

8vo., cloth, dust jacket. x, 224 pages and 18 illustrations.

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Tudor, Tasha: A Time to Keep : The Tasha Tudor Book of Holidays, Chicago, IL Rand McNally & Company 1978
ISBN: 0528820192 Very Good+ Tudor, Tasha

unpaginated (60 pp) including free endpapers, pink papercovered boards w/red lettering, color illustrated front & back, color illustrated endpapers, pasted endpapers are first and last leaves of the four signatures, without the white added endpapers. fourteen stitches, illustrations are borders of vines, flowers, twigs, or other vegetation frame each page. some pages are divided into two or three framed panels. cover fine linen imprint. Hare T175. Tasha Tudor's illustrations bring to life the holidays of an earlier time, month by month. Book describes the traditional holiday celebrations throughout the year in a New England household. The book is bright and soundly bound. prev owner wrote name & year at top of the ffep. 3rd Printing No Jacket Hard Cover 4to - over 11" - 13" Tall

[SW: JUVENILE LITERATURE CHILDREN'S EASTER FOURTH OF JULY CHRISTMAS MEMOIRS NON-FICTIONChildren Children's]

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Tudor Tudor: A Time To Keep, Illinois Rand Mcnally And Company 1978 ISBN: 0528802135

EXPECTED MARKINGS AND ATTACHMENTS. ILLUSTRATED HARD COVER COVER WITH LIGHT SOILING, CORNERS BUMPED, SPINE WITH FADING AND ENDS LIGHTLY BUMPED, LIGHT SHELFWEAR TO EDGES. INTERIOR PAGES HAVE LIGHT SOILING AND FINGERING TO MARGINS. FRONT END SHEET TAPED AT HINGE. Good; 3rd Printing

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Tudor Tudor: A Time To Keep, Illinois Rand Mcnally And Company 1978 ISBN: 0528802135

EXPECTED MARKINGS AND ATTACHMENTS. ILLUSTRATED HARD COVER COVER WITH LIGHT SOILING, SPINE WITH FADING. INTERIOR PAGES STAMPED "DISCARD" AND HAVE LIGHT FINGERING TO MARGINS WITH LIBRARY STAMPS MARKED OUT. Good; 3rd Printing

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