Private History: An Autobiography.

PATMORE, Derek.

$75.00

Item Number: 119388

London: Johnathan Cape, 1960.

First edition of the author’s autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For dear Jonathan, in memory of our long friendship & with admiration & affection Derek Patmore London Feb. 17 1961.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

A man of unusual versatility, Derek Patmore won fame as an expert on interior decoration, as a playwright, as a travel writer and as a biographer. His Private History gives a comprehensive picture of a social world which has now passed into the realms of history. The bulk of the book deals with life in England during the 1920s and 1930s and the author, in addition to recounting his own experiences, attempts to analyze the whole social background of the period.