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VERY GOOD. Book is as new except for sun fading to top edge of covers and spine. Dust jacket is present and crisp but has tattered top and bottom edges with small pieces missing. and as rip on the back flap. 151 pages and endpapers with Phillippe Jullian's illustrations. One of the last works of Violet Trefusis, chiefly remembered for her lengthy affair with Vita Sackville-West, featured in novels by both parties ("Challenge" by Sackville-West and "Broderie Anglaise" a roman à clef in French by Trefusis) and in Virginia Woolf's novel "Orlando". Was also the inspiration for Lady Montdore in Nancy Mitford's "Love in a Cold Climate", Muriel in Harold Acton's "The Souls Gymnasium", and in many letters and memoirs of the period. This, one of her last books, follows the traveling 1759 Louis XV armchair through time and adventures.