Förlagsband/skyddsomslag Bonniers 1994 585 sidor.

1st Printing. 9.2 x 6.5 x 1.6 Nice Tight Clean copy ! 384 pages. 7913

1st Edition. 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.75 Nice Tight Clean copy ! Jacket price clipped. 530 pages. 8791

8vo over 7.75 - 9.75'' tall Nice Tight Clean copy ! 268 pages. 7927

some soiling to dust jacket, edge wear; 1989 Book Club edition. ''Prime entertainment from the author of Queenie and Charmed Lives , this facile novel shows high society red in tooth and claw. The wealthy, snobbish Bannerman family is a fictional hybrid of the Rockefellers and the Binghams. It's bad enough that Arthur Bannerman has the poor taste to die in the bed of an attractive young woman. But when she declares herself his widow and delivers a will giving her control of the family fortune, his son Robert and the redoubtable matriarch Eleanor haul out the heavy artillery. Korda has a wonderful ear for bitchy, brittle society chatter, and he takes satirical swipes in every direction. A Mayflower madam, a whiny, upperclass priest and the New York art scene are raked over the coals for the reader's amusement, while skeletons rattle loudly in the very best closets.'' -- Publisher's Weekly

some edge wear to dust jacket; Book Club edition; Korda's latest sweeping melodrama (after Queenie ) is set in London theaters and Hollywood studios of the 1940s. The larger-than-life romantic leads in this compulsively readable roman a clef , Shakespearean actor Robert Vane and Oscar-winning beauty Felicia Lisle, are cloned from real-life stars Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. The supporting cast, notably Hollywood comic Randy Brooks; crude, magnetic impresario Marty Quick; British theater critic Guillam Pentecost; and Vane's greatest rivals on the London stage, actors Toby Eden and Philip Chagrin, are drawn as directly from other identifiable luminaries of the times. After performing together in Hamlet , Robbie and Lisha abandon their spouses (and Lisha's daughter) to live together in an extravaganza of passion and style, enduring a financially disastrous American tour of Romeo and Juliet , Lisha's breakdowns and possessiveness, Robbie's stint in the RAF and his increasing commitment to the theater. Their marriage 10 years later is followed by Robbie's knighthood, an affair and a murder--the plot spiced with enough sex (homo-, hetero-, incest and a little S-M) to provide an action-filled if ok predictable plot. Korda knows the milieu and keeps the pages turning. -- Publisher's Weekly

edge wear; some tears along edges of dust jacket; Prime entertainment from the author of Queenie and Charmed Lives , this facile novel shows high society red in tooth and claw. The wealthy, snobbish Bannerman family is a fictional hybrid of the Rockefellers and the Binghams. It's bad enough that Arthur Bannerman has the poor taste to die in the bed of an attractive young woman. But when she declares herself his widow and delivers a will giving her control of the family fortune, his son Robert and the redoubtable matriarch Eleanor haul out the heavy artillery. Korda has a wonderful ear for bitchy, brittle society chatter, and he takes satirical swipes in every direction. A Mayflower madam, a whiny, upperclass priest and the New York art scene are raked over the coals for the reader's amusement, while skeletons rattle loudly in the very best closets. -- Publisher's Weekly

Condition: Very Good - in Good+ DJ. Edges of DJ somewhat ruffled, several small nicks and chips. Bruised at head and tail. Bottom corner of ffep soiled. :: Further Information: (Originally £12.95) 608pp. First Edition. Weighs 1.100 Kg. which exceeds standard rates. ::

Condition: Very Good - in Very Good DJ. Edges of DJ ruffled. Mildly bumped at head and tail of spine. Spine a little faded. :: Further Information: The Bannerman family lives in a world of unimaginable wealth and power: thus, when the head of the family, Arthur Bannerman, dies in the bed of Alexa Walden, a woman young enough to be his granddaughter, the scandal makes headline news.Out of Print. 602pp. Size: 8vo Medium (23 x 14mm Approx.) First Edition. Weighs 1.100 Kg. which exceeds standard rates. ::

Condition: Very Good. :: Further Information: No synopsis available. ::