2009, ISBN: 9780307270146

Knopf Publishing Group, 2009. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good . 6x1x9. She was irresistible. She inspired fiction, fantasy, legend, and art. Some say she was “the Bolte… Meer...

Knopf Publishing Group, 2009. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good . 6x1x9. She was irresistible. She inspired fiction, fantasy, legend, and art. Some say she was “the Bolter” of Nancy Mitford’s novel The Pursuit of Love. She “played” Iris Storm in Michael Arlen’s celebrated novel about fashionable London’s lost generation, The Green Hat, and Greta Garbo played her in A Woman of Affairs, the movie made from Arlen’s book. She was painted by Orpen; photographed by Beaton; she was the model for Molyneaux’s slinky wraparound dresses that became the look for the age—the Jazz Age. Frances Osborne deftly tells the tale of her great-grandmother using Idina’s never-before-seen letters; the diaries of Idina’s first husband, Euan Wallace; and stories from family members. Osborne follows Idina from the champagne breakfasts and the dansants of lost-generation England to the foothills of Kenya’s Aberdare moutnains and the wild abandon of her role in Kenya’s disintegration postwar upper-class life. A parade of lovers, a murdered husband, chaos everywhere—as her madcap world of excess darkened and crumbled around her., Knopf Publishing Group, 2009, 3<

2009, ISBN: 9780307270146

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. Textblock is very clean and very tight, b&w photographs. All page edges are crisp and sound. Bumped at the foot of spine and lightly to the corners. Unclipp… Meer...

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. Textblock is very clean and very tight, b&w photographs. All page edges are crisp and sound. Bumped at the foot of spine and lightly to the corners. Unclipped dust jacket, minimally worn, illustrated. 300pp., including index.. Reprint. Boards. Near Fine/Near Fine (in mylar). Illus. by B&W Photographs. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover., Alfred A. Knopf, 2009, 4<

2009, ISBN: 0307270149

[EAN: 9780307270146], Near Fine, [PU: Alfred A. Knopf, NY], IDINA SACKVILLE LIFE, BIOGRAPHY, Jacket, Textblock is very clean and very tight, b&w photographs. All page edges are crisp and … Meer...

[EAN: 9780307270146], Near Fine, [PU: Alfred A. Knopf, NY], IDINA SACKVILLE LIFE, BIOGRAPHY, Jacket, Textblock is very clean and very tight, b&w photographs. All page edges are crisp and sound. Bumped at the foot of spine and lightly to the corners. Unclipped dust jacket, minimally worn, illustrated. 300pp., including index. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall<

2009, ISBN: 9780307270146

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. The story of the wild, beautiful, fearless Idina Sackville. descendant of one of England's oldest fami… Meer...

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. The story of the wild, beautiful, fearless Idina Sackville. descendant of one of England's oldest families, who went off to Kenya in search af adventure and became known as the high priestess of the scandalous "Happy Valley Set". 303 pages, text clean and tight. NOT exlib and not price clipped. Stated second printing., Alfred A. Knopf, 2009, 3.5<