Harold Nicolson — Helen&Apos;S Tower

London, Constable and Co. Ltd. 1937. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated biography of Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and nine plates, with genealogical tables to the endpapers. Collated complete. A detailed biography of Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, a British public servant and prominent member of Victorian society. He was a popular figure in the court of Queen Victoria and became well known to the public after publishing a best-selling account of his travels in the North Atlantic. Written by Sir Harold George Nicolson, a British politician, diplomat, historian, biographer, diarist, novelist, lecturer, journalist, broadcaster, and gardener who was the husband of writer Vita Sackville-West. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light rubbing to the extremities and minor fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot to the foredge and minor age toning to the endpapers. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed .