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The Water Beetle

The Water Beetle

The Water Beetle

by Nancy Mitford

Publisher Hamish Hamilton Ltd

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    Good first edition in a good, clipped, dust-jacket. Some discolouration to the jacket, with foxing to the page block and yellowing of the pages.

About the book

Essays consider the author's childhood memories, trips to Russia and Greece, Scott's expedition to the South Pole, country house life in Ireland, and European history.

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About the Author

Nancy Mitford

Nancy Freeman-Mitford CBE, known as Nancy Mitford, was an English novelist, biographer, and journalist. The eldest of the Mitford sisters, she was regarded as one of the "bright young things" on the London social scene in the inter-war period.

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