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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Very rare copy. Pages in good condition. Some light tanning and marking due to age. No notes or highlighting. Family tree pullout present in back. Best copy of this book I have seen. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> THE title of Sir Osbert Sitwell’s autobiography of which this is the first volume is derived from the idea that the lines on the left hand are those with which we are born and the lines on the right hand are those which we make ourselves. The comparison between a life inherited and a life made can be easily studied here for while inheriting certain traditions of life in England Sir Osbert has made for himself the life of an artist. All the author’s various talents are here fused in an exciting and an enthralling book. The novelist and short-story writer combine to give it narrative interest; the poet gives it form and discipline and the satirist and essayist provide their own pungency and humour. In a day full of well-written small works and small artists Sir Osbert opens to us the larger vision. Yet the most characteristic note this book strikes is its Englishness a quality now made still more precious to us by all that has been endured and accomplished in its defence. (SP)