Ancestral Voices by James Lees-Milne - 1975

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975. A clean, square copy. No owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Pages are clean and crisp. Frontispiece portrait of the author in 1940. Endpaper illustrations of West Wycombe Park and Blickling Hall. Bound in the original lime green cloth. First American printing with complete number row on the copyright page. Index. The English author and architectural conservationist James Lees-Milne (1908-1997) is said to be one of the 20th century's greatest diarists. ANCESTRAL VOICES offers his wartime diaries for the years 1942 and 1943. They are notable not only for their literary qualities, but for vivid portrayals of London during the German air raids, and for JLM's trenchant observations while serving as the first Historic Buildings Secretary for the National Trust, a position he held 1936-51. With wit and keen insight he also records the gossip and anecdotes of daily life within his circle of… Read More