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(MURPHY, GERALD.) Tomkins, Calvin. Living Well is the Best Revenge.

(MURPHY, GERALD.) Tomkins, Calvin. Living Well is the Best Revenge. Illustrated. 8vo, copper-lettered linen over boards; light foxing to fore edge; very good dust jacket. New York, (1971)

  • Notes: scarce first edition in a near fine dust jacket. inscribed and signed by tomkins to critic berton roueché: "From an admirer and emulator." The biography of famed socialites Sara and Gerald Murphy and their expatriate coterie.with--First English Edition of the same. London, 1972 * Modern Library Edition of the same. Inscribed by Tompkins. New York, (1998) * Donnelly. Sara & Gerald: Villa America and After. Inscribed by Donnelly to co-worker of Sara Murphy at the Wood Memorial Day Nursery. (New York, 1982) * Vaill. Everybody Was So Young. Later printing. Inscribed by Vaill. Boston, 1998.
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