Edward VIII The Man We Lost-A Pictorial Study.
Gray, Robert and Oliver, Jane.
Place Published: Great Britain:
Publisher: The Compton Press, Ltd.,
Date Published: 1972.
Description: 8-1/2" x 10-1/2". The book is a pictorial study. The Foreword reads: Seeing that wistful face wizened in the later years, almost a Levine caricature of jet-set boredom,I could not help recalling the savage epitaph written by Westbrook Pegler, the American columnist, the weekend that Edward VIII quite the throne and his native land: "He will go from resort to resort getting more tanned and more tired". It seemed insufferably cruel at the time, for he was still the golden boy among the monarchs of the globe, but it was no crueler than the actuality, the thirty-six year exile that lay ahead. Th Governorship of the Bahamas was an intermediate poultice between the twilight grandeur of being almost the last King-Emperor and the long night of this banishment on the trans-Atlantic social tour: Cannes to Paris to New York to Palm Beach, back to the Waldorf, on the Paris, and back again....... For the ten days that shook and toppled his throne, he was the saddest and loneliest man in the Western world. His private emotional turmoil hid from him something that he came to learn later. But I believe he learned it for keeps, with the kind of guilty relief of a cured cancer patient; namely, that he had been not merely a lover defied but a constitutional issue of shattering importance. It may explain the persistence of that baffled, wistful expression as of a playful child that once stepped on a land mine. Foreword by Alistair Cooke ---------------------------------------- This book has 45 unnumbered pages. The book is a pictorial history with black and white photographs. The book is NEAR FINE -- a tight, bright copy. The dust jacket is NEAR FINE -- price clipped and some very minor curling at edges. Even includes the Duke of Windsors horoscope! JMVintage specializes in books, magazines and other treasures related to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and other curious people.
Binding: Hard CoverCondition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj
ISBN: 900193115
Book Id: 912
Price: $23.00
