Loelia Westminster (6 results)
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Seller: AwesomeBooks, Wallingford, United KingdomAwesomeBooks
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Cocktails and Laughter This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money ba…ck guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .
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Seller: Bahamut Media, Reading, United KingdomBahamut Media
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.
Language: English
Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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Seller: Optimon Books, Gravesend, KENT, United KingdomOptimon Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. Signed copy. A fourth impression copy of this frank and humorous account of Loelia nee Ponsonby's childhood, her debut and life as a 1920s Bright Young Thing, and her marriage to Bendor, Duke of Westminster. Signed by the Duchess on the title page. Tan cloth, gilt; unmarked. Dustwrapper unclipped, sli…ght shelfwear. Binding firm, text block edges slightly browned/foxed. Signed as above, otherwise internally unmarked. 244 pp; 16 b&w plates. Published November 1961, 4th impression (1st was October 1961).
Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1961
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Seller: The Guru Bookshop, Hereford, United KingdomThe Guru Bookshop
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. first edition on brown cloth.
Published by Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1961
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- Signed
Seller: Hunter Books, Burnham, BUCKS, United KingdomHunter Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. UK hardback fourth impression from 1961. A very interesting copy, SIGNED by Loelia Westminster at title page with name only. This copy has two dustjackets. The second jacket has been printed to reverse with full details of the Yorkshire Post Literary Luncheon of February 8…th 1962, featuring Loelia Westminster. There are menu and speaker details and it mentions that she will be signing books after the luncheon. The book is Good overall with some page block toning and some newspaper pieces laid in and stuck to rear ffep. The jackets have some yellowing nicks and nibbles. Signed by Author.
More imagesPublished by Reynal & Company, 1961
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- First Edition
Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.The Cary Collection
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Memoirs of Loelia, Duchess of Westminster w/ a foreword by Noel Coward [244] pp. Reynal & Company 1961 8 3/4" x 5 3/4" The frame to the lettering on this jacket was designed by the late Rex Whistler as part of a book plate given to the authoress as a… wedding present Loelia Mary, Lady Lindsay of Dowhill, née Ponsonby (6 February 1902 1 November 1993), was a British peeress, needlewoman and magazine editor. Family and first marriage Lindsay was the only daughter of the courtier Sir Frederick Ponsonby, later 1st Baron Sysonby, and Victoria Lily (Kennard), Lady Sysonby, the well-known cookbook author. She spent her early years at St James's Palace, Park House at Sandringham, and Birkhall. One of the Bright Young People, she met the twice-divorced Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster. They were married on 20 February 1930 in a blaze of publicity, with Winston Churchill as the best man, but were unable to have children. Her marriage to the enormously wealthy peer failed, and was described by James Lees-Milne as "a definition of unadulterated hell". It was dissolved in 1947 after years of separation. Life after divorce After her divorce, Loelia, Duchess of Westminster, established herself as a skillful hostess at Send, Surrey, occupying herself with needlework and gardening, passions she had inherited from her mother. Her needlework collection was bequeathed to the National Trust. During the 1950s she worked as a feature editor for House & Garden magazine, and covered the wedding of Prince Rainier III of Monaco and Grace Kelly. Lindsay is believed to have popularised the aphorism (falsely attributed to Margaret Thatcher): "Anybody seen in a bus over the age of 30 has been a failure in life", which appears to have been coined by poet Brian Howard. Lindsay's second marriage, to the divorced explorer Sir Martin Lindsay, 1st Baronet, came as a surprise to her friends but was much more successful. The couple were married on 1 August 1969. Sir Martin, a devoted husband, died in 1981, and Lady Lindsay chose to spend her last years in nursing homes. Her memoirs, written in 1961 and titled Grace and Favour: The Memoirs of Loelia, Duchess of Westminster, are a significant record of aristocratic life between the First and Second World Wars.
