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STRONG**, [Sir] ROY: : Scenes and Apparitions: THE ROY STRONG DIARIES 1988 - 2003

LONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON,2016.

ISBN 9781474603898.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE/FINE-.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip (£25.00) to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,author's colour photographic portrait illustrated dw/dj with white+pale blue lettering to front and spine/backstrip; a smaller colour portrait photograph with critics' reviews for his predecessor diaries ('Splendours and Miseries.') to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Lower,rear corner of dw/dj with minimal rubbing and reciprocal loss - virtually no other fault to dw/dj other than minimal shelf-wear.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked fluorescent pale blue/silver (?) gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain pale blue endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-549pp [paginated] includes author preface,'Fragments 1988 to 1992' compilation,then Annual (1988 to 2003) segments/ sections and an epilogue,16pp contemporary b/w+colour (the majority) auto+biographical photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp182/3 and pp358/9 respectively,separate illustrations and cast of characters lists/ tables,and an index; plus [unpaginated] blank - publisher's initialled logo to verso and blank to recto,half-title+title pages,a dedication and contents list/table. 'Scenes and Apparitions' begins where its predecessor,'Splendours and Miseries.',left off.It covers a period of Roy Strong's life from 1988 to 2003. Shaking off the shackles of public life,Roy was free for the first time to reinvent himself, leaving behind the political and cultural machinations of the art world.Left with little to live on,he turned his hand to what came his way,first as a consultant to the Canary Wharf development; then as a television and radio presenter; and finally as a full- time writer of books on the nation's history and civilisation, as well as on garden design and history. The urge to keep a diary ebbed and flowed and continues to be nothing other than sporadic - when this or that prods his pen to describe a scene or a person.This volume of his diaries is an unmissable record of how a citizen at the close of the second Elizabethan age observed and chronicled his own world,as the last decade of the twentieth century gave way to the first decade of the twenty-first century. Please contact seller,because of the weight of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. UK and all overseas buyers please note, stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if item is offered P+p included or postage free. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIR postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. between 1/2 to 2/3rds of standard AIR quote/ rate - sometimes arriving within a week or so,and sometimes before the quoted 42 days - but not always.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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