PROPHESYING PEACE.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1977.
1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition of the second volume of James Lees-Milne's provocative and highly-acclaimed diaries spanning the years 1944-1945. A fine copy in green cloth, gilt titles to the spine in a bright, fresh near fine Reynolds Stone designed dustwrapper. 8vo. 254 pp. Black and white frontis of James Lees-Milne after a painting by Derek Hill. A veritable who's who of British aristocracy, their country homes acquired by James Lees-Milne during his tenure at the National Trust, sterling observations of wartime Britain and of close friends John Betjeman, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Henry Green, Anthony Powell, Vita Sackville-West, Harold Nicolson et al.
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