Jessica s Hons and Rebels, and the novel by her elder sister Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love (1945), depicted the family life of the Mitfords as a series of comic but unnerving episodes, dominated by their father's frequent fits of rage and irrational prejudices. An entrancing account of growing up in an eccentric aristocratic family in an isolated country home in the Cotswolds during the 1920s and 30s. Jessica "Decca" Mitford's classic memoir, with the scarce dust jacket. Will be dispatched wrapped in bubblewrap and in a cardboard box. The unclipped dust jacket, protected in a clear, removable cover is in fair condition with small nicks to the top edge and creases to the bottom edge of the front cover, loss to the bottom edge of the darkened spine, a tear to the top edge of the spine and loss to the top corner of the back cover.
There is foxing to the fore and bottom edges. There are crease marks to the top edge of the front board.The end papers and pages are free from tears or inscriptions. There is some sun damage to the top edge for the front board and the spine. In very good condition, the binding is straight and tight, the boards clean and the lettering on the spine bright. Hons And Rebels, Jessica Mitford, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1960, First Editions, Fifth Impression Written by the second youngest daughter of the Mitford family, this is her account of her unconventional upbringing, how she ran away with Churchill's nephew to fight in the Spanish Civil War, her emigration to the United States without a penny and how she become a journalist even though she had no formal schooling.
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