Publication details: Hutchinson, 1956,
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Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: 'For Mr C. Wilson, With all good wishes, Nancy Spain'.A memoir of a busy life: 'rich with anecdote, thick with a procession of glorious personalities' (dustjacket blurb). The printed dedication is to Nol Coward, who provides a prefatory letter and is among the many celebrities encountered within these predominantly literary but including Marlene Dietrich ('with whom she had a brief romance', ODNB), encountered here.
FIRST EDITION, frontispiece and 13 plates with numerous monochrome photographs, pp. 264, 8vo, original blue boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, edges very faintly spotted, dustjacket with a hint of rubbing to extremities and a touch of dustsoiling to rear panel, a couple of little nicks to tail, very good
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