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Duke & Duchess of Windsor Historical Society Journal--Back Issue 1/2010 (Issue 23). A 54-page four color spiral bound news journal. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor Society is an exclusive Society of individuals interested in Wallis and Edward ("WE"). Membership in this "almost cultish" group allows you to participate by sharing your own WE interest and collection with other like-minded individuals throughout the world. The Society was founded over twenty years ago. This organization is founded upon member participation and interest, which is collectively focused in a quarterly journal. Throughout the years it's members have visited and reported on tours of exclusive WE-sites, such as Frogmore, The Mill, among others. Join us for future exciting visits to Windsor haunts around the world or read about the couple's many contributions to fashion, food, entertainment and design. Perhaps you'll be the one who is reporting! COVER: Photograph of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor June 7, 1967 going to Marlborough House ceremony. From th personal collection of Mark Gaulding. Articles include: Editor's Column; Society Inforrmation; The Windsors I Knew: An American Private Secretary's Personal Account, Nassau, Bahamas 1940-1944, MY WEDDING by Jean Wallace Drewes. Ms. Drewes wrote a lengthy manuscript of her time in the Windsors employ. This issue excerpts the story of Jean's wedding at Government House in Nassau with Wallis as wedding consultant; GETTING TO KNOW WE Michael Hardcastle-Taylor, eldest son of Jean Wallace Drewes, shares his introduction to the Society at our First Member Conference in San Diego, October 2009; WINDSOR NEWS Cartier and America--An exclusive exhibition of Cartier pieces, including four items originally from the Duchess of Windsor jewelry collection is on display at the Fine Arts Museum, Legion of Honor in San Francisco, through May 2, 2010; MADONNA'S film project, titled W.E., gets thte green light and signs A-list stars; MOULIN DE LA TUILERIE TO OPEN AS A HOTEL. The Mill will become a hotel, numerous color photos; Report on the Gardiner Houlgate auction in March 2010 of items which originally sold in the 1987 Geneva/Sotheby's auction of the Duchess' jewels; WE ERRATA Two excerpts from Lady Diana Mosley's recently published book titled The Pursuit of Laughter. The book is a compilation of essays, articles, diary entries, newspaper letters, originally written by Lady Mosley and reprinted here with permission; NEW MEMBERS/MEMBER NEWS; WHERE IN T HE WORLD ARE WE IN THE SOCIETY? A look at where our members are located around the world; A WINDSOR ODYSSEY WITH BALTIMOREAN AND SOCIETY MEMBER ZIPPY LARSON Zippy conducts a sold out extended education class for Johns Hopkins University; SOCIETY MEMBER PROFILE: HOWARD LEWIS (CA); WE Cuisine-WISE recurring column. June Gaulding brings us Wallis' recipe for French Apple Pie; IN MEMORIAM: SOCIETY MEMBER KAREN BLANK (CA); FACT OR FICTION--WE-WISE A 2010 member survey BACKISSUE12010 The Duke & Duchess of Windsor Historical Society Quarterly Journal Issue 1-2010 (Issue 23).
Gaulding, Mark (publisher).
Palm Desert, CA: JMVintage, 2010. Duke & Duchess of Windsor Historical Society Journal--Back Issue 1/2010 (Issue 23). A 54-page four color spiral bound news journal... more
Price: $14.00
FIRST EDITION 1st PRINTING (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1(. 192 pages including index and colorful recipe and food titles and illustrations throughout the cookbook. The paperback book, with wrappers, is NEAR FINE: illustrated wraps have minor wear on spine and edges, inscription on half title page. JMVINTAGE specializes in Books, Magazines and Treasures related to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor....and other curious subjects. The back of the book reads: The Pink Adobe, created through one woman's special genius almost forty-five years ago, embodies the artistic, eclectic spirit of Santa Fe. Its menu is an inspired mix of local cuisines from Hispanic to Native American with a touch of Creole, all blended on a savory southwestern palette. Now you can bring Santa Fe home, delighting family and friends with recipes from Rosalea Murphy's famous kitchen. You'll find inspirations from the traditional (Turkey Mole Poblano; Southwestern Succotash) to the innovative (Peppery Peanut Chicken Wings' Stuffed Crabs Cajun Style) to the simply delicious (The pink Adobe's Prize-winning French Apple Pie), along with complete menus for special occasions - Santa Fe style. The Pink Adobe Cookbook.
Murphy, Rosalea.
New York: Dell Trade Paperback, 1988. FIRST EDITION 1st PRINTING (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1(. 192 pages including index and colorful.. more
Price: $18.50
STATED FIRST EDITION. The book is in GOOD condition with front board showing fading at the lower edge and a dark line on the lower front and onto the lower spine, light wear on spine ends, edges and corners, lower block edges show a small light mark, a small dent in the top board edge and the deckled page edges showlight age discoloration. All pages are tight and no markings. The dust jacket is in GOOD condition showing age discoloration on all edges and spine, minor chipping and minor closed tearing on spine ends, edges and corners with a crease line on the back edge of spine. 416 pages. Illustrated. Part autobiography and part cookbook. A fascinating book about cuisine and restaurants around the world, as well as cafe society. JMVintage specializes in books, magazines, and treasures related to the Duke & Duchess of Windsor..and other curious subjects. Love and Dishes.
Quattrociocchi, Niccolo De.
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc., 1950. STATED FIRST EDITION. The book is in GOOD condition with front board showing fading at the lower edge and a.. more
Price: $42.00
Duke & Duchess of Windsor Society Journal--Back Issue 3/2009 (Issue 21). A 56-page four color spiral bound news journal. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor Society is an exclusive Society of individuals interested in Wallis and Edward ("WE"). Membership in this "almost cultish" group allows you to participate by sharing your own WE interest and collection with other like-minded individuals throughout the world. The Society was founded over twenty years ago. This organization is founded upon member participation and interest, which is collectively focused in a quarterly journal. Throughout the years it's members have visited and reported on tours of exclusive WE-sites, such as Frogmore, The Mill, among others. Join us for future exciting visits to Windsor haunts around the world or read about the couple's many contributions to fashion, food, entertainment and design. Perhaps you'll be the one who is reporting! This issue features: COVER: The Private World of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor with photo of author, Hugo Vickers. See the enclosed interview; Editor's Column: A review of this issue as well as topical commentary on current stories that are in the headlines; Letter to the Editor: Soicety Member, Edward Pattillo (AL) writes a letter to the editor in response to previous issue about Baltimore, Maryland; THE PRIVATE WORLD OF HUGO VICKERS An interview with Society Member Hugo Vickers who talks about his career as a biographer and historian, his family, and how much he looks forward to the sunny skies in October at the upcoming Duke & Duchess of Windsor Society Conference in San Diego where he'll be featured speaker; THE YOUNG UPSTART AND THE DUCHESS OF WINDSOR Society Member and guest speaker at the upcoming Duke & Duchess of Windsor Society Conference in San Diego, Richard Rene Silvin, shares an excerpt from his upcoming memoir, Noblesse Oblige: The Duchess of Windsor I Knew. As administrator of the American Hospital of Paris, Silvin found an unlikely mentor and friend in the Duhcess of Windsor during the 70's. THE DUCHESS OF WINDSOR, THE PRINCE OF WALES, AND THE CORONADO LEGEND, part 1: Dr. Benjamin Sacks investigates the long held legend that Edward Prince of Wales and Wallis Warfield Spencer met originally in 1920 in San Diego when Edward made a two-day visit while on his Australian world tour. For years, this legend added even more mystery surrounding the Windsors. This two-part article originally appeared in The Journal of San Diego History Fall 1987 and is reprinted here with permissino of the family of Professor Sacks who passed away in 2007 at the age of 104. Part to will appear in the next issue of the journal; KING MAGNUS & KING MINUS: A PLAY AND A PLAYLET by Stanley Weintraub. George Bernard Shaw influenced the abdication crisis with a short play that has been forgotten in the last seventy years. This article originally was published in the Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies, Volume 27, 2007 and is reprinted in its entirety with the permission of the publisher, Penn State Press, and the author; NEW MEMBERS/MEMBER NEWS; DUKE & DUCHESS OF WINDSOR SOCIETY CONFERENCE, OCTOBER 2009; BATY'S BIDDLE STREET BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION IN Batlimore for the Duchess of Windsor. Society Member Philip Baty successfully concludes his fifth annual Duchess of Windsor Birthday celebration charity fund-raising event in Baltimore--this year with Society Members to help celebrate; SOCIETY MEMBER PROFILE: John Makepeace (VA) An interview with Society Member John Makepeace and a look at his large Windsor Collection which includes exquisite King Edward VIII coronation commemoratives, faux jewelry, books and more; WE: CUISINE-WISE A southern recipe, Shrimp and Corn Pie, using receipes from Wallis' cookbook Some Favorite Southern Recipes and Suzy Menkes' The Windsot Style by June Gaulding; WE SIGHTINGS BACKISSUE32009 The Duke & Duchess of Windsor Society Quarterly Journal Issue 3-2009 (Issue 21) The Private World of Hugo Vickers: An interview with the author of The Private World of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor.
Gaulding, Mark (publisher).
Palm Desert, CA: JMVintage, 2009. Duke & Duchess of Windsor Society Journal--Back Issue 3/2009 (Issue 21). A 56-page four color spiral bound news journal. The.. more
Price: $14.00
SOFTCOVER 4to. The book, in pictorial wrapper, is NEAR FINE with bumped bottom outside corners. Very clean and tight copy otherwise. 212 pp. Color photo illustrated. 80 dresses in the legendary auction of the Princess's dresses. Numerous color photographs of Diana wearing the dresses. The sales was conducted "on behalf of AIDS Crisis Trust and The Royal Marsden Hospital Cancer Fund. A portion of the proceeds of this sale, as well as the profits from catalogue sales, will also benefit AIDS Care Center, New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, The Harvard AIDS Institute and The Evelyn H. Lauder Breast Center of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center." Total auction proceeds were $3.3million dollars Dresses from the Colleciton of Diana, Princess of Wales, June 25, 1997, Christie's New YOrk.
Christie's.
New York: Christie's, 1997. SOFTCOVER 4to. The book, in pictorial wrapper, is NEAR FINE with bumped bottom outside corners. Very clean and tight copy.. more
Price: $250.00
4to - over 9" - 12" tall. SIGNED BY HUGO VICKERS ON TITLE PAGE. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. The book is FINE condition The dust jacket is NEAR FINE with minor shelfwear. NOT price-clipped and NOT remaindered. 128 pages with index. Black & white photo illustrated. JMVintage specializes in books, magazines, and treasure related to the Duke & Duchess of Windsor..and other curious subjects. Dust jacket notes read: "Loelia Lindsay is one of six women living today who at one time bore the title of Duchess of Westminster. She was born with what many might consider to be a silver spoon in her mouth. Her father, Sir Frederick Ponsonby, was a key figure in the households of Queen Victoria, Edward VII and George V. She grew up in St. James's Palace, where she led a cowed and unhappy childhood before emerging, shy and bewildered, into the bright world of the Twenties. Irritated by conventional society life, she gravitated towards a more amusing milieu, the world of 'The Bright Young Things', of Noel Coward and Cecil Beaton. Their high jinks, though harmless enough in retrospect, astonished her parents' generation. These remained unsettled years for Loelia until she met the legendary Bendor, the dashing and eccentric Duke of Westminster, who lived in a fantastic eighteenth-century style until his death in 1953. Twice married, he was not what Loelia's parents deemed a 'suitable match' but Loelia was soon swept off her feet and married him in a blaze of publicity in 1930. She was transformed at once from being a relatively impoverished girl to the mistress of Eaton Hall, several other houses and two huge yachts. She looked set to live happily ever after. But Bendor was a man of changing moods - devastating charm at one moment, tyrannical jealousy the next. In less than five years they parted. Loelia had to create a new life for herself, devoted to travel and music, and to needlework at which she is an expert. In 1961 she published her bestselling memoirs Grace and Favour in which she related the story of her life. Now she has turned to twenty large albums, leather-bound and coronetted, and selected some 200 photographs which trace a life lived at the very heart of the twentieth century. In these pages are found the Prince of Wales at Balmoral home on leave from the trenches, Noel Coward as a shy young man, Cecil Beaton swimming at Cannes; the Duke of Kent and Princess Marina playing croquet on a summer lawn. There are the exaggerated poses of the Bright Twenties and of later days, the magnificent Eaton Hall in its heyday before it was demolished, and, in total contrast, Goldeneye, Ian Fleming's legendary home. In what other album could you find Sir Harry Lauder, Vanessa Redgrave;, Diana Mosley, Admiral Beatty, Erroll Flynn, Paul Getty, Charlie Chaplin, Lady Diana Cooper, the Yellow Earl, Rex Harrison, Winston Churchill and Lord Alfred Douglas gazing happily from their respective photographs? HUGO VICKERS introduces the many-facetted woman, who assembled and took most of these photographs, and Loelia Lindsay herself sets the scene of each picture, evoking sometimes forgotten faces in what Noel Coward described as 'her own idiom and her own style'. Hugo Vickers is the author of Gladys, Duchess of Marlborough and the bestselling Debrett'sBook of the Royal Wedding. Currently researching the authorised biography of Cecil Beaton, he is an acknowledged authority on the period. " Cocktails and Laughter (SIGNED) The Albums of Loelia Lindsay
Lindsay, Loelia; Vickers, Hugo.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1983. 4to - over 9" - 12" tall. SIGNED BY HUGO VICKERS ON TITLE PAGE. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. The book.. more
Price: $92.50
STATED FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2) 193 pages. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE ("Deborah Devonshire"). The book is in NEAR FINE condition with inscription on ffep. The dust jacket is NEAR FINE with minor shelf/edge wear. NOT price-clipped. JMVINTAGE specializes in Books, Magazines and Treasures related to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and..other curious subjects. The dust jacket reads: The Duchess of Devonshire is the youngest of the Mitford siblings, the famous brood that includes the writers Nancy and Jessica, Like them, she has lived an unusally full and remarkable life, and like them she has an inimitable expressive gift. She has gathered extracts from her diaries and other writings to create a multifaceted portait of her life at Chatsworth, the home of the Dukes of Devonshire, that is pithy, hilarious, wise, and always richly rewarding. Counting My Chickens And Other Home Thoughts [SIGNED].
Devonshire, The Duchess Of; Stoppard, Tom (Intro).
New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2001. STATED FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2) 193 pages. SIGNED BY THE.. more
Price: $85.00
Black & White original film still photo of The Duke & Duchess of Windsor at The Mill. From the filming of A King's Story. 8 1/8" X 10". This original film still from the documentary film, A King's Story. Circa 1965. The photo is in NEAR FINE condition. Dog-eared bottom right edge. The Duke's sartorial refinement shows very well in the photo. His fashion sense looks as fresh as if it were appearing in today's GQ magazine (not the belt, the cuffed trousers, and his shoes). Also in the photo is director Harry Booth and producer Jack Le Vien. NO copyright is implied with the sale of this photo. Original Photograph of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor.
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JMVintage, 1965. Black & White original film still photo of The Duke & Duchess of Windsor at The Mill. From the filming.. more
Price: $49.99
8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. 246 pages with index and 16 pages of black and white photos. The book and dust jacket are NEAR FINE condition. NOT price clipped and NOT remaindered. Madams: Bawds & Brothel-Keepers of London.
Linnane, Fergus.
London: Sutton Publishing, 2005. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. 246 pages with index and 16 pages of black.. more
Price: $12.50
STATED FIRST US EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2) 467pp. Index. 8pp black &white photos. The book is in VERY GOOD++ condition with two small stains to front board and very lightly bumped bottom edges. Clean tight copy inside. The dust jacket is NEAR FINE with minor shelf/edge wear. NOT price-clipped. NOT remaindered. JMVINTAGE specializes in Books, Magazines and Treasures related to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and..other curious subjects. "Last of the Dandies is Nick Foulkes's wonderful account of one of history's most colorful, flamboyant, raffish and scandalous of characters-Count d'Orsay. Born in France at the turn of the nineteenth century, d'Orsay enjoyed a childhood with allof the benefits and luxuries of Napoleon's Paris. By the time political changes forced his family into exile, this handsome, precocious youth was ready to take London society by storn. The prevailing male fashion of the time was pale, lethargic, and melancholic. D'Orsay-a man who required as many as six pairs of gloves to see him through the day-was the antithesis in both spirit and appearance. D'Orsay's style and charm soon found favor with the influential Lord and Lady Blessington, who invited him to tour Europe with them. While on tour there he met some of the continent's most influential figures and boosted his reputation, and a lengthy stay in Naples cemented his extravagant tastes. The Blessington-d'Orsay ménage intrigued and scandalized London society, and gossip reached a fever pitch when d'Orsay agreed to marry Blessington's fifteen-year-old daughter, without ever having see her. D'Orsay's return to England coincided with the birth of the modern media, and the scandal-hungry press. Soon his celebrity and influence on fashion was complete: crowds would gather in the parks to watch him ride; Disraeli, Carlyle, and Dickens were among his acquaintances. But while the establishment took his lead in everything from cricket to horse carriages, d'Orsay's extravagance was far outstripping what he could afford. In the end, his fall from grace was as spectacular as his outfits. " Last of the Dandies: The Scandalous Life and Escapades of Count d'Orsay.
Foulkes, Nick.
New York: St Martin's Press, 2003. STATED FIRST US EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2) 467pp. Index. 8pp black.. more
Price: $18.50
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