The book is inscribed:
Which means that Puff must be the film director Anthony "Puffin" Asquith, who died the following year.For my own darling Ilona with all the love in the world from the author's son
Puff
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Saturday, May 31, 2008
A little piece of Liberal history for £5
In a Stamford bookshop today (though not the one that stuffs owls) I bought a copy of a one-volume edition of The Autobiography of Margot Asquith edited by Mark Bonham Carter. He was the son of Margot's stepdaughter Violet.
The book is inscribed:
The book is inscribed:
Excellent. Awesome find.
ReplyDeleteBy coincidence, they were talking about Anthony Asquith on the Film Programme on Radio 4 on Friday. His 1929 silent film A cottage on Dartmoon (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020793/) has just been released on DVD. Wonderfully, it includes a scene where the characters go to the cinema and see a talkie.
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