Henrietta Moraes, reformed drunk, ex-drug addict, model of Francis Bacon and Lucien Freud, and wife of Indian poet, Dom Moraes, tells her autobiography, from her convent girlhood in Peckham Rye to the pubs and jazz clubs of Soho in the 1950s. An habituee of the French Pub and the Colony Room, friend to John Minton, George Melly, Francis Wyndham, Bacon and Lucien Freud, she left Soho and Chelsea for the hippy life in the 1960s. From the life in a caravan to a Guinness mansion in Ireland, from LSD to heroin, Henrietta goes from one extreme to another. Finally, she has to come to terms with her alcoholism. Given three months to live, she gives up the drink and finds a new life.
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Seller: BooksRun, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. With dust jacket. It's a preowned item in good condition and includes all the pages. It may have some general signs of wear and tear, such as markings, highlighting, slight damage to the cover, minimal wear to the binding, etc., but they will not affect the overall reading experience. Seller Inventory # 0241002893-11-1-29
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Autobiography of free-spirited artists' model Henrietta Moraes, documenting her time with Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, and others. Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 166821
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR001758598
Quantity: 4 available
Seller: Bluesparrowhawk Books, Chestfield, KENT, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. RARE EX-LIBRARY 1st edition hardback with dustjacket, print line 13579108642, published by Hamish Hamilton, 1994. 213pp, with two sections of photographs. Plastic cover, usual library marks. Heavy bumping to spine, some tanning to pages. Fair copy. book. Seller Inventory # 13617413
Seller: Springhead Books, Rochester, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Quintessential autobiography of bohemian life in Soho in the 1950s and beyond. 212 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm. First edition, first printing. Grey boards, unclipped dust jacket (now in a removable protective sleeve). Slight shelf wear to edges, orange lettering on spine faded, 'damaged' stamped on bottom edge of text block, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging. Seller Inventory # 018306
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: PSBooks, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed on November 4, 1994 "To Del with much love, Henrietta XXX". Glued on the fep, along with signature, is a small cut out of a Francis Bacon work of Henrietta from the George Pompadou exhibit. This copy has slight tilt to spine. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 004226