The Blessing.
MITFORD, Nancy.
The Blessing.
First edition of Nancy Mitford's The Blessing; in the rare original dust jacket designed by Cecil Beaton
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1951.
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First edition of Nancy Mitford’s post-World War II satire, dedicated to Evelyn Waugh. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Cecil Beaton.
English novelist and biographer Nancy Freeman-Mitford is best remembered for her novels about upper class life in England and France and for her sharp and often provocative wit. She established a reputation for herself as a writer of popular historical biographies including the very successful Madame de Pompadour. The Blessing concerns an English country girl who moves to France after falling for a dashing aristocratic Frenchman named Charles-Edouard who lusts after other women.
