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Friends across the sea
Selina Hastings
17 December 2011
The Acceptance of Absurdity edited by John Saumarez Smith and Jonathan Kooperstein
Maggs Brothers, pp.126, 25
On 12 February 1952 the novelist Anthony Powell received a letter from a bookseller in New York. Robert Vanderbilt Jr was the proprietor of a couple of Manhattan bookstores and… Read more
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