Author Name: Gerson, Noel B.
Title: BECAUSE I LOVED HIM: The Life and Loves of Lillie Langtry
Binding: Quarter Cloth Hardback & DJ Book Condition: Very Good Jacket Condition: Very Good Edition: 1st U.S. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Publisher: New York William Morrow 1971
Seller ID: 003647
255pp., b/white, subject-portrait frontispiece. Book clean. Quarter-cloth spine firm, but slightly cocked. Bright silver titles. Small, splash speck on ffep., otherwise leaves clean. Art-illustrated [stained glass representation of Miss Langtry, in situ at the Lille Langtry Restaurant, Golden Nugget Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada], loose-plastic protected dustjacket lightly edgeworn and U.V. affected on spine. Supplied, compliments of the forementioned restaurant; the story of the 'most beautiful woman of her age, renowned actress, financial genius', world's best-dressed woman-mistress of many men-woman of independence; Lillie Langtry, born Emilie Charlotte Le Breton, on the Isle Of Jersey, Channel Islands, on October 13, 1853, and died on February 12, 1929. Between these dates, she 'partied hard'. Book weight approx. 470g. PLEASE NOTE: LISTED BOOKS ARE NOT STORED AT SHOP PREMISES. DIGITAL PHOTO AVAILABLE ON REQUEST.
Biography, Entertainers, Langtry, Lillie, 1853-1927 [stage name]
Price =
10.10 USD
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