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3 unusual facts about Maurice Collis


Barnett Freedman

The inimitable style of Freedman's book jackets drew the eye of the ‘bookshop prowlers’, as they were termed by Maurice Collis, an author who realised and admired the important role that Freedman’s art played in bookshop sales.

Sagaing

Maurice Collis, author of Trials in Burma, was district commissioner of the Sagaing district in 1928.

Tip Htila

According to Maurice Collis, who met her in her old age, "in her day she must have been rash, magnificent, as bold as a lion".



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