Bardot: A Personal Biography.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,subject's portrait colour+b/w photographic illustrated dw/dj panels with b/w lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain yellow cloth bds with bright, crisp,stamped black ink printed letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9-290pp [paginated] includes a preface,author's introduction,18 chapters,24pp contemporary b/w autobiographical photographs in three blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp98/9, pp162/63 and pp226/27 respectively,a filmography,a select biblio and an index,plus [unpaginated] half-title,title page with dedication to verso,and contents list/table.
Glenys Roberts's biography of Bardot,published to coincide with the fiftieth birthday of the French superstar,is the definitive and most revealing book ever written about her (then 1984). It is inspired by the revelations of the actress herself,of her friends and people from the circles in which she moves,and sets out to explore a life in which sensuality and scandal,fame and money, despair and loneliness have played their part.A life which began in middle-class respectability in the heart of Paris and progressed through more than forty films,countless lovers and three marriages - to film-maker Roger Vadim,actor Jacques Charrier and multi-millionaire Gunther Sachs - and in the course of which she has been adulated and reviled.She has now retired from the cinema to take up the cause of animal rights and to live - close to the elements - in the South of France and in Paris,where she has talked about herself over the years as sex symbol,cinema star,little girl,lover,mother and wife. This is Bardot's story,the truth about the female sex symbol of the century told with the insight of another woman.Glenys Roberts explains why a well brought up girl became the fallen angel of an era, influencing the street style of the whole liberated generation of women.The book not only reveals the flesh and blood Bardot but also interprets her impact on the world. Since April 2013 and again in March 2015,and in this year too, the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too!
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