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Woman's Home Companion 11/54. 132 pages. The magazine, in illustrated wrapper, is in VERY GOOD++ condition with address label on lower front cover. Spine is intact but curled upwards. Small closed tears to outside wrapper front edge. Outside bottom page edges lightly curled. Tight and bright inside, pages intact and excellent color. JMVINTAGE specializes in Books, Magazines and Treasures related to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. THE DUCHESS OF WINDSOR' Own Story of OUR FIRST REAL HOME, Part One. The Duke & Duchess are visited at their country home Moulin de la Tuilerie by Margert Biddle. Numerous color photographs of their home, The Mill. 8 1/4 pages; COMPANION IN PARIS A Report from Margaret Thompson Biddle. This month the Companion's Editor gives an intimate portrait of the Duchess of Windsor, whom she has known for years, and also writes about England's Duke of Edinburgh. Mrs. Biddle regularly discusses personalities of interest. Ms. Biddle gives us a recipe of the Duchess: Kedigree of Salmon; FICTION: MAN OF MY DREAMS by Charlotte Edwards; THE EGYPTIAN by Mika Waltori. Color photos of The Twentieth Century-Fox film now being released starring Edmun Purdom and Jean Simmons; THE HEART OF A HUSBAND (PART 3 OF 4) by Margaret Culkin Banning; MY SON, BILLY GRAHAM by Mrs. Morrow Coffey Graham as told to Naomi A. Hintze. His mother talks about her dynamic 35-year old evangelist son who has affected millions of lives. With black & white photos; I LEARNED TO BE A WIFE Gale Storm as told to Jane Kesner Ardmore. Gale had to say 'Yes' a second time to make their marriage work and give Lee back his self-respect; ANNOUNCMENT OF SECOND ANNUAL CLUBWOMAN-OF-THE YEAR AWARD. Winner Goldena Howard. 250 women's clubs around the nation picke winner ; FIVE WAYS YOU CAN HELP YOUR CHURCH FIGHT COMMUNISM by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale with John Gainfori; TWELVE DIETS FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY by Herbert Pollack, M.D.; MOVIES: WOMAN'S WORLD by Philip T. Hartung; GOOD MANNERS FOR HAPPY LIVING by Marguerite Bentley; COMPANION IN PARIS by Margaret Thompson Biddle; TALENTED HOMEBODY-JO STAFFORD (RECORD OF THE MONTh; YOUNG DESIGNER FURNITURE YOU CAN BUILD YOURSELF by Elizabeth Matthews and Guy Henle; PICTURE OF THE MONTH Beau Brummell from MGM starring Stewart Granger as Brummell and Elizabeth Taylor as Lady Patricia; COMPANION FAMILY-APPROVED MOVIES "Woman's World" a provocative comedy-drama by 20th Century-Fox asks if you're an asset or a handicap to your husband. Starring Lauren Bacall, June Allyson, Arlene Dahl, Clifton Webb, Van Heflin, Cornel Wilde, Fred McMacMurray. This issue is an absolute Must for a Wallis and Edward devotee;

Woman's Home Companion 10/54.
No author.
Springfield, Ohio:: The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company,, 1954.. Woman's Home Companion 11/54. 132 pages. The magazine, in illustrated wrapper, is in VERY GOOD++ condition with address label on.. more
Price: $40.00

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

8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, STATED SECOND PRINTING. SIGNED BY HUGO VICKERS ON TITLE PAGE. 508 pages with index. The book is FINE/NEW . The dust jacket is in FINE condition. NOT price-clipped or NOT remaindered. JMVintage specializes in books, magazines, and treasures related to the Duke & Duchess of Windsor...and other curious subjects like Cecil Beaton. Dust jacket notes read: "Cecil Beaton was one of the great twentieth century tastemakers. A photographer, artist, writer and designer for more than fifty years, he was at the center of the worlds of fashion, society, theater and film. THE UNEXPURGATED BEATON brings together for the first time the never-before-published diaries from 1970 to 1980 and, unlike the six slim volumes of diaries published during his lifetime, these have been left uniquely unedited. Hugo Vickers, the executor of Beaton's estate and the author of his acclaimed biography, has added extensive and fascinating notes that are as lively as the diary entries themselves. As one. London reviewer wrote, 'Vickers' waspish footnotes are the salt on the side of the dish.' Beaton treated his other published diaries like his photographs, endlessly retouching them, but, for this volume, Vickers went back to the original manuscripts to find the unedited diaries. Here is the photographer for British and American Vogue, designer of the sets and costumes for the play and film My Fair Lady and the film Gigi, with a cast of characters from many worlds: Bianca Jagger, Greta Garbo, David Hockney, Truman Capote, the Qlieen Mother and Princess Margaret, Mae West, Elizabeth Taylor, Marlene Dietrich, Rose Kennedy and assorted Rothschilds, Phippses and Wrightsmans; in New York, San Francisco, Palm Beach, Rio and Greece, on the Amalfi coast; at shooting parties in the English countryside, on yachts, at garden parties at Buckingham Palace, at costume balls in Venice, Paris or London. Beaton had started as an outsider and "developed the power to observe, first with his nose pressed up against the glass:' and then later from within inner circles. Vickers has said, 'his eagle eye missed nothing,' and his diaries are intuitive, malicious (he took a 'relish in hating certain figures'), praising and awestruck. Truman Capote once said, 'the camera will never be invented that could capture or encompass all that he actually sees.' THE UNEXPURGATED BEATON is a book hat is not only a great read and wicked fun but a timeless chronicle of our age."

The Unexpurgated Beaton: The Cecil Beaton Diaries As He Wrote Them, 1970-1980 (SIGNED).
Beaton, Cecil; Vickers, Hugo (Intro).
New York:: Alfred a Knopf Inc,, 2003.. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, STATED SECOND PRINTING. SIGNED BY HUGO VICKERS ON TITLE PAGE... more
Price: $67.50

9-1/2" X 12-1/4". STATED FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, 198 pages with index and 150 color and 150 black and white photos. The book and jacket is in FINE condition. 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: This beautifully illustrated book celebrated the fortieth anniversary of Jcqueline Kennedy 's emergence as America's first lady and explores her enduring global influence on style and fashion. Combining original and new photographs, the volume presents images of the first ledy that have rarely been seen, as well as photographs that have become a part of the national consciousness. This perspective on the Kennedy White house years revels the impact Jacqueline Kennedy had on the world on America's vision of itself, and on the role played by the first lady in the life of the nation.

Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years.
Bowles, Hamish.
New York:: Bullfinch Press,, 2001.. 9-1/2" X 12-1/4". STATED FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, 198 pages with index and 150 color and 150 black and white.. more
Price: $42.50

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

4to - over 9" - 12" tall. STATED FIRST US EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1). The book is FINE condition. Clean, bright blue cloth boards. The dust jacket is VERY GOOD ++ with minor edge and shelf wear/closed chipping. NOT price-clipped. NOT remaindered. 240 pages with index. 293 illustrations with 32 in color. JMVintage specializes in books, magazines, and treasures related to the Duke & Duchess of Windsor..and other curious subjects like Cecil Beaton. Dust jacket notes read: "CECIL BEATON was a man of dazzling charm and style, and his talents were many. At the age of twenty he sent Vogue an out-of-focus snap of an undergraduate play, and for the next half-century and more he kept readers of the magazine up to date with all the various activities of his long and creative career. In his twenties he recorded London and New York society, in needle-sharp words and drawings. Conde Nast, the owner of Vogue, compelled him to abandon his pocket Kodak, and his resulting photographic work earned him a place among the great chroniclers of fashion. Witty and inventive, he designed settings for plays and films - and for himself - and as a writer he was an eloquent champion of stylish living. His accounts of travel made the most luscious places seem tantalizingly vivid and close. The turning point in his career was the challenge of working as an official photographer in the Second World War. He travelled the world, no longer in luxury but in uniform, and the photographs, drawings and writings that revealed the face of war, from bombed London to China and the North African Desert, testified to a new maturity of vision. Cecil Beaton remained triumphantly active to the end of his long life. He became a superb portrait photographer, of royal and other famous faces and forms, and designed the costumes for My Fair Lady (both on stage and on film) and for Gigi. Almost incredibly, when a stroke paralysed his right hand he turned himself into a left-handed draughtsman; and he carried out two marathon photo assignments for French Vogue only a few months before he died. Josephine Ross selects and introduces articles, drawings and photographs by Beaton dating from the 1920s to the 1970s. Beaton loved Vogue, and his contributions testify to the wit, imagination and professionalism that the man and the magazine always had in common. WITH 293 ILLUSTRATIONS 32 IN COLOUR. ON THE jacket front Beaton by Manfredi Bellati, 1968; back Audrey Hepburn in a Beaton costume for My Fair Lady, 1964"

Beaton in Vogue.
Ross, Josephine.
New York:: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc,, 1986.. 4to - over 9" - 12" tall. STATED FIRST US EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (10 9 8 7 6 5 4.. more
Price: $165.00

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

The Duke & Duchess of Windsor Society Quarterly Journal Issue 2-2009 The Duchess of Windsor's Baltimore.
Gaulding, Mark (publisher).
Palm Desert, CA:: JMVintage,, 2009.. Duke & Duchess of Windsor Society Journal--Back Issue 2/2009. The Duchess of Windsor's Baltimore. A 66-page four color spiral bound.. more
Price: $14.00

STATED FIRST EDITION, SECOND PRINTING (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2). SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. 477 pages with index plus 16 pages black & white photos. The book and dust jacket are VERY FINE/AS NEW (unread). NOT price-clipped and NOT remaindered. JMVintage specializes in books, magazines, and treasures related to the Duke & Duchess of Windsor. Dust jacket notes read: "'In 1953, at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Alice was dressed from head to foot in a long gray dress and a gray cloak, and a nun's veil. Amidst all the jewels, velvet, coronets, and fine uniforms, she exuded an unworldly simplicity. Seated with the royal family, she was a part of them, yet somehow distanced from them. . . . ' PRINCESS ALICE, MOTHER OF PRINCE Philip, was something of a mystery figure even within her own family. She was born deaf, at Windsor Castle, in the presence of her great-grandmother, Queen Victoria, and brought up in England, Darmstadt, and Malta. In 1903, she married Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, and from then on her life was overshadowed by wars, revolutions, and enforced periods of exile. By the time she was thirty-five, virtually every point of stability was overthrown. Though the British royal family remained in the ascendant, her German family ceased to be ruling princes, her two aunts who married Russian royalty came to savage ends, and soon afterward Alice's own husband was nearly executed as a political scapegoat. The middle years of her life, which should have followed a conventional and fulfilling path, did the opposite. She suffered from a serious religious crisis and at the age of forty-five was removed from her family and placed in a sanatorium in Switzerland, where she was pronounced a paranoid schizophrenic. As her stay in the clinic became prolonged, there was a time when it seemed she might never walk free again. How she achieved her recovery is just one of the remarkable aspects of her story."

Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece (SIGNED).
Vickers, Hugo.
New York:: St Martins Press,, 2000.. STATED FIRST EDITION, SECOND PRINTING (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2). SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE... more
Price: $75.00

TRADE PAPERBACK 8VO-7" to 9". The book, in illustrated wrapper, is VERY GOOD++ with minor shelf and edgewear. 592 pages plus 64 pages black & white and color photos JMVintage specializes in books, magazines, and treasures related to the Duke & Duchess of Windsor....and other curious subjects. Wrapper notes read: "I FOLLOWED THE SUN…Pat Cavendish O'Neill was born into a world of enormous riches, eccentricity and intrigue. Her mother, Enid Lindeman of the Australian wine family, was a famous beauty who married four times. Two husbands were millionaires, two had titles and none lived long. Somerset Maugham jokingly dubbed his dazzling friend Enid "Lady Killmore" but others, including Vanity Fair magazine, were less kind. Here Pat tells the story of her charmed life among the glittering names of the twentieth century-Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Gianni Agnelli, Princess Grace and the Hollywood crowd…and the day everything changed for her, when a lover I Africa presented her with a tiny lion cub and she entered a world more magical and inspiring than anything she had known before."

A Lion in the Bedroom The Fabulous High Life of the Heiress Who Couldn't Say No To....
O'Neill, Pat Cavendish.
New York:: Park Street Press,, 2004.. TRADE PAPERBACK 8VO-7" to 9". The book, in illustrated wrapper, is VERY GOOD++ with minor shelf and edgewear. 592 pages.. more
Price: $110.00

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