"The Decline Of The Gentleman" 1962 RAVEN, Simon Interior Decoration Eddie [ideas by]

Eddie [ideas by]

including a new preface by the author himself

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"The Decline Of The Gentleman" 1962 RAVEN, Simon Interior Decoration Eddie [ideas by]RAVEN, Simon [190] pp. Simon and Schuster 1962 First Printing 9 1 4" x 6 3 8" Jacket design by Isadore Seltzer When the hedonist Simon Raven finally died, a good forty years later than one might have supposed based upon his hard living ways, the Guardian wrote that it was proof the devil looks after his own. In spite of not being one himself (or maybe even because of it), Raven writes perceptively and movingly here about the origins of the English