Rules of the Game: Sir Oswald and Lady Cynthia Mosley, 1896-1933: Sir Oswald and Lady Cynthia Mosley, 1896-1933.
Mosley, Nicholas.
Place Published: London:
Publisher: Martin Secker & Warburg, Ltd,
Date Published: 1982.
Description: FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. 274 pages with index plus 32 pages of black & white photos. The book is FINE. The jacket is in NEAR FINE condition with minor shelf wear. Comes with a BRODART cover. JMVINTAGE specializes in Books, Magazines and Treasures related to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and..other curious subjects. The dust jacket reads: Nicholos Mosley's porents, alwoys known as Tom and Cimmie, were on extraordinary couple. Rich and aristocratic by birth, they led the social lives of the smart intemational set: luncheon and dinner parties, house parties in the country from Saturday to Monday: summer holidays in Venice ar on the French Riviera. Their friends were the Belgian Royal family, Ramsay MacDonald, Winston Churchill, Cecil Beaton, the Guinnesses, the Sitwells, the Webbs ond Lady Cynthia's two sisters. Yet by 1929 both were Members of Parliament and strenuous Labaur Party activists. Tom had been a Conservative Member but had changed allegiance as a protest against gavernment brutality in Ireland. The Tory press jeered: the Labour stalwarts lapped up Tom's disdainful oratory and were delighted at the sight of Cimmie electioneering in pearls. Tom loved and cherished Cimmie, but was a philanderer. She loved him alone. She tried, and sometimes failed, to come to temns with his infidelities. This book is not just a political biography: it is as much the story of Cimmie and her children os of Tom. It tells of the everyday lives of the talented and privileged in the twenties and thirties; af long forgotten political attitudes and struggles. In 1926 Tom's economic thinking was held to be revolutionary: much of it is now accepted. At the time of Cimmie's death in 1933 Tom had only just started the British Union of Fascists - as a result of which he was to become the most hated man in England.
Edition: First editionBinding: Hard Cover
Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj
ISBN: 0436288494
Book Id: 2366
Price: $29.50
