Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980. Selected and Introduced by Michael Holroyd and Paul Levy. Pp. xiv+274, half-title page illustration, index; post 8vo; green boards, spine lettered in gilt, bottom edges of boards lightly shelf worn, the lower board a trifle marked; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges slightly rubbed and split; book label of David Levine, Sydney, and bookseller's sticker on upper pastedown, the text block slightly browned, a little light foxing; Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1980. First edition. *Published to coincide with the centenary of Lytton Strachey's birth. 'A selection of thirty of his best short pieces, originally published between 1904 and 1913, Strachey's subjects range from Gibbon and Macaulay to Sarah Bernhardt; from Pope to Dostoevsky; from Boswell to Lady Hester Stanhope. There are wartime pieces, a childhood memoir, an analysis of Shakespeare's final period, and a memorable description of a day spent with Vanessa Bell, Ottoline Morrell, Duncan Grant, and others from the Bloomsbury colony' [wrapper blurb].

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Bookseller: Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 165805
Title: THE SHORTER STRACHEY
Author: Strachey, Lytton
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Place of Publication: Oxford
Date Published: 1980

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