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
Genre/Form
Biographies.
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