LYTTON STRACHEY A CRITICAL BIOGRAPHY VOLUME I: THE UNKNOWN YEARS (1880-1910) VOLUME II: THE YEARS OF ACHIEVEMENT (1910-1932).
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1968]. Two volumes. Black cloth, silver spine and mirrored floral emblem to upper panel. Decorated endpapers. xxiii,[3],4-475,[5] & xxi,[3],4-754 pp. Volume I frontispiece in cyanotone of Strachey in 1904 by Simon Bussy, Volume II frontispiece portrait of Strachey in 1913 by Vanessa Bell. Numerous illustrative black and white photographs in both volumes, index and familial pedigrees at conclusion of text in volume I, bibliography and index at volume II conclusion. Former owner's barely signature on front free endpapers, fine copies in very good or better dust jackets enclosed in an illustrated slipcase. Due to the weight of this book both expedited and international shipping may cost extra.
First editions. "Giles Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) was an English writer and critic. A founding member of the Bloomsbury Group and author of Eminent Victorians, he established a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit." - Wikipedia. . Fine/Very good+. Item #716
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