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9788498380545 | Salamandra Publicacions Y Edicions, August 25, 2006, cover price $24.95

Showing how history imprints itself on private lives, this memoir presents the author's sensuous, harrowing, and altogether remarkable life. It moves from Berlin during the Great War to the artists' set on the Cote d'Azur, through lovers, mentors, seducers and friends, and from genteel yet shabby poverty to relative comfort in London's Chelsea.

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9781582431697 | Counterpoint, April 20, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In a narrative memoir, the literary luminary and author of A Legacy and A Visit to Don Otavio offers a the moving culmination to a sensuous, harrowing, and remarkable life that the author has narrated in her fiction and nonfiction.

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9780140279764 | Gardners Books, June 1, 2006, cover price $25.35 | About this edition: Showing how history imprints itself on private lives, this memoir presents the author's sensuous, harrowing, and altogether remarkable life.
9781582433516 | Counterpoint, March 14, 2006, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Her first new book in over 10 years.

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Product Description: Sybille Bedford once wrote that travel writing is inseparable from the writer's tastes, idiosyncrasies, and general temperament--it is what happens to him when he is confronted with a column, a bird, a sage, a cheat, a riot; wine, fruit, dirt; the delay in the dirt, the failing airplane...read more

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9781582431703 | Counterpoint, March 26, 2003, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Sybille Bedford once wrote that travel writing is inseparable from the writer's tastes, idiosyncrasies, and general temperament--it is what happens to him when he is confronted with a column, a bird, a sage, a cheat, a riot; wine, fruit, dirt; the delay in the dirt, the failing airplane.

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Product Description: Before returning to the Old World after World War II, Sybille Bedford resolved to see something more of the New. I had a great longing to move, she said, to hear another language, eat new food, to be in a country with a long nasty history in the past and as little present history as possible...read more

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9781582431710, titled "A Visit to Don Otavio: A Traveller's Tale from Mexico" | Counterpoint, March 21, 2003, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Before returning to the Old World after World War II, Sybille Bedford resolved to see something more of the New.
9780870527746, titled "A Visit to Don Otavio: A Traveller's Tale from Mexico" | Reprint edition (Hippocrene Books, July 1, 1989), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The tale begins at Grand Central Station with an impetuous decision, continues with a nightmarish train journey, and then reveals the landscapes and people of Mexico with such a light touch that even the dullest patch of history becomes fascinating Although Bedford is frank about the horrors of travel, the highlight is the author's idyllic stay with Don Otavio, a bankrupt squire still inhabiting his lakeside house with 17 servants to wait on him.

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Product Description: In this dazzling conjunction of subject and author, the great English novelist Aldous Huxley, the “wholly civilized man,” is brought wholly alive in a magnificent full-scale biography by the brilliant English novelist Sybille Bedford, an intimate friend of the Huxleys through four decades...read more

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9781566634540 | 1 edition (Ivan R Dee, September 1, 2002), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In this dazzling conjunction of subject and author, the great English novelist Aldous Huxley, the “wholly civilized man,” is brought wholly alive in a magnificent full-scale biography by the brilliant English novelist Sybille Bedford, an intimate friend of the Huxleys through four decades.

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9781582431581 | Counterpoint, August 30, 2001, cover price $16.00
9780525480976 | Plume, April 1, 1984, cover price $7.95

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The sequel to A Legacy continues the story of a young woman from the Kaiser's Germany to Europe in the 1920s and the vanished world of Europe between world wars as the narrator describes her discovery of the complexities, passions, wisdom, and mysteries of life, with the help of a diverse array of 'teachers.' Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

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9780394493404 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, April 1, 1989, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: An autobiographical novel based on Sybille Bedford's highly unusual childhood, moving from a south-German Schloss full of animals and expensive wines to a nonconformist family in the North of England.

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9781582431437 | Counterpoint, April 12, 2001, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The sequel to A Legacy continues the story of a young woman from the Kaiser's Germany to Europe in the 1920s and the vanished world of Europe between world wars as the narrator describes her discovery of the complexities, passions, wisdom, and mysteries of life, with the help of a diverse array of 'teachers.
9780140113884 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, May 1, 1991), cover price $10.00

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The religious and social differences between two pre-World War I German families related through the marriage of their children cause numerous complications and disagreements. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

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9781582431420 | Reprint edition (Counterpoint, April 12, 2001), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The religious and social differences between two pre-World War I German families related through the marriage of their children cause numerous complications and disagreements.

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The religious and social differences between two pre-World War I German families related through the marriage of their children cause numerous complications and disagreements

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9780141181677 | Penguin Uk, October 1, 1999, cover price $7.99 | also contains Principles of Health Care Management: Foundations for a Changing Health Care System
9780912946269 | Reissue edition (Ecco Pr, March 1, 1984), cover price $8.50 | About this edition: The religious and social differences between two pre-World War I German families related through the marriage of their children cause numerous complications and disagreements

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Emphasizes the personal life of the modern English novelist, exploring his relationships with contemporary artists and other members of the illustrious Huxley family

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9780881841459 | Carroll & Graf Pub, October 1, 1985, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Emphasizes the personal life of the modern English novelist, exploring his relationships with contemporary artists and other members of the illustrious Huxley family

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