Author: Dirk Bogarde
Title: A Particular Friendship
Description: London, Viking, 1989. First edition. Cloth. A fine signed first edition of this intriguing memoir by Dirk Bogarde, a unique memoir about correspondence, inscribed by the author to the title page. The first edition, first impression of this work.Signed by the author to the title page.In the original unclipped dustwrapper.A fascinating memoir, recounting a unique and mysterious correspondence between the actor Dirk Bogarde and a complete stranger in the States, a Mrs. X. Mrs X initiated a correspondence with Bogarde after seeing a magazine article about his house, in which Mrs X herself had lived in during the 1930s. The correspondence was remarkable and lasted for five years, with the two never meeting. Illustrated with sixteen plates.Collated, complete.From the library at Julians Park, Hertfordshire, once the library of Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie. After being widowed at 25, Audrey married the fabulously wealthy American department store heir, Marshall Field III, later divorcing him and marrying the Honorable Peter Pleydell-Bouverie. In 1940 she bought Julians Park and redesigned the interior. Her library was impressive, with many examples of her own bookbinding.Audrey was an extravagant socialite and renowned beauty, the illegitimate granddaughter of King Edward VII (though she was also rumoured to be his daughter, or the lover of King Edward VIII), featured in the 'Book of Beauty' by Cecil Beaton. She had many high profile friends, such as Winston Churchill, Coco Chanel, Fred Astaire, and Nancy Mitford, a sparkling hostess of the Edwardian period, her hedonistic antics bringing her into the Bright Young Things. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, fine. Dustwrapper with a couple of very light marks. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Fine.
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Title: A Particular Friendship
Description: London, Viking, 1989. First edition. Cloth. A fine signed first edition of this intriguing memoir by Dirk Bogarde, a unique memoir about correspondence, inscribed by the author to the title page. The first edition, first impression of this work.Signed by the author to the title page.In the original unclipped dustwrapper.A fascinating memoir, recounting a unique and mysterious correspondence between the actor Dirk Bogarde and a complete stranger in the States, a Mrs. X. Mrs X initiated a correspondence with Bogarde after seeing a magazine article about his house, in which Mrs X herself had lived in during the 1930s. The correspondence was remarkable and lasted for five years, with the two never meeting. Illustrated with sixteen plates.Collated, complete.From the library at Julians Park, Hertfordshire, once the library of Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie. After being widowed at 25, Audrey married the fabulously wealthy American department store heir, Marshall Field III, later divorcing him and marrying the Honorable Peter Pleydell-Bouverie. In 1940 she bought Julians Park and redesigned the interior. Her library was impressive, with many examples of her own bookbinding.Audrey was an extravagant socialite and renowned beauty, the illegitimate granddaughter of King Edward VII (though she was also rumoured to be his daughter, or the lover of King Edward VIII), featured in the 'Book of Beauty' by Cecil Beaton. She had many high profile friends, such as Winston Churchill, Coco Chanel, Fred Astaire, and Nancy Mitford, a sparkling hostess of the Edwardian period, her hedonistic antics bringing her into the Bright Young Things. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, fine. Dustwrapper with a couple of very light marks. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Fine.
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Price: GBP 80.00 = appr. US$ 114.24 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 793P25
- Book number: 793P25
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