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DOROTHY L. SAYERS (1893-1957)
Papers Relating to the Family of Wimsey, edited by Matthew Wimsey, London: Privately Printed For the Family, Humphrey Milford, [1936], 8°, [limited to approximately 500 copies], FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on front blank to: "Nancy Pearn. With love and best wishes for Christmas. From Dorothy L. Sayers", frontispiece, coat-of-arms on title, one plate, original blue wrappers (spine and margins faded).

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Nancy Pearn "The Queen of Fleet Street" was a director of the literary agency Curtis Brown. She gained a reputation for representing authors for serialisation in Magazines. In 1935 she left Curtis Brown to set up a rival Literary Agency Pearn. Pollinger. Higham which became known as P.P.H.

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