Shelfmark
Id7.3.10
Author
Title
Nancy Astor : an informal biography / Maurice Collis.
Publication, distribution, etc.
[London] : Faber and Faber, 24 Russell Square, 1960.
Physical description
235 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm
Note
Publisher's 20th-century purple binding; title, author, and publisher stamped in gold on spine.
Provenance
Tipped-in ALS from Nancy Astor to ?Frank, undated.
Provenance
Ms. inscription: "To my dear Gwat. [Ashton-Gwaktin] who ?lifted me for 33 ask him who. Nancy Astor".
Provenance
From the library of Frank Ashton-Gwatkin.
Binding
With full colour, pictorial dust-jacket.
Copy-specific note
Copy contains tipped-in typed poem about Viscountess Astor's retirement from the House of Commons.
Copy-specific note
Copy contains loosely inserted newspaper cutting by Trevor Allen about the release of another book about Lady Astor, 'Nancy Astor and her friends' by Elizabeth Langhorne.
Subject
Added entry--name
Ashton-Gwatkin, Frank Trelawny Arthur, 1889 - 1976 former owner.
Added entry--name
Faber and Faber publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B43574