[publisher: Macmillan, New York, New York, U.S.A.] Hardcover Clean and unmarked copy. Jacket quite worn, 1 x 3" chip bottom of back, chips at spine ends and folds.
[Hudson, ME, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1956]

[publisher: Collins] Hardcover 1955. No Edition Remarks. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil markings to front pastedown. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Minor wear marks to boards.
[Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1955]
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New York The Macmillan Company 1956 First Printing Hard Cover Good in Good jacket 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Jacket is scuffed, chipped and edgeworn, smudged on back. Flap corners are clipped, but printed price is intact. Text is clean & unmarked, binding is tight.

HARDBACK "HARD TO FIND," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. UK* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1955* Publisher: Collins.* Binding and cover condition: Scarlet cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no major faults. VG+* Jacket condition: Black and red titles to yellow paper dust wrapper. Price clipped, Some shelf wear to top & bottom edge and to head & tail of spine. GD+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, neat dedication to fep plus slight marks, otherwise no visible faults. VG++* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 256 pp. text.* Description: Here is the story of Gillian Aylesford who according to a tactless boy cousin, belonged to the ?failure branch? of a large English family brilliant in celebrities. We are shown Gillian aged 14 assembling unkown to them her personal material to write one day a Biograohy of the Most Famous Family in the World. And covering the years between 1926 and 1954, we see her working out her own place in the family weave, from happiness to tragedy, from insecurity to elation, from long periods of neglect to ecstatic moments in which she herself held centre of the stage. The special interplay of relationship between Gillian and Bettinaof the older branch ? magnetic, glamorous, outrageous, eternally impenitent Bettina ? is perhaps even more vivid and exciting than the rest of the book; leading to a final surprise, credible but wholly unsuspected.* A NEAR VERY GOOD copy of ...

Collins, Date: 1955. Hardback. First edition, 1955. Red cloth covered boards with gold lettering to spine. Very good neat and tightly bound copy. Some foxing to page edges with VG un-clipped dust jacket. Published: Collins, 1955 1955. Collins [GB]

[publisher: London: Collins, 1955] First Edition First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: " Elizabeth and Hacks from Peter, Christmas 1955". The author Bertha Gladys Stern (1890-1973) wrote under the name G. B. Stern. She was known as Gladys as a child, later substituted Bronwen for Bertha, and was called Peter by her friends (but Tynx by Rebecca West). Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt. Gift inscription in ink to front free endpaper. A very good copy, spine cocked, spine ends bumped; in the original dust jacket, a touch soiled, spine sunned, a few nicks and short closed tears, extremities a little rubbed, colours still very bright and dust jacket unclipped.
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1955]
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[publisher: London: Collins, 1955] First Edition First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: " Elizabeth and Hacks from Peter, Christmas 1955". The author Bertha Gladys Stern (1890-1973) wrote under the name G. B. Stern. She was known as Gladys as a child, later substituted Bronwen for Bertha, and was called Peter by her friends (but Tynx by Rebecca West). Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt. Gift inscription in ink to front free endpaper. A very good copy, spine cocked, spine ends bumped; in the original dust jacket, a touch soiled, spine sunned, a few nicks and short closed tears, extremities a little rubbed, colours still very bright and dust jacket unclipped.
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1955]
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