The Oliviers. A Biography. FLAT - SIGNED BY BOTH LEIGH AND OLIVIER TO FRONT FREE ENDPAPER.
by BARKER, Felix. (Laurence OLIVIER and Vivien LEIGH)
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- Signed
- first
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- Seller
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Hay-on-Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
1953. Hamish Hamilton. London. 1953. First edition. DW. The first published biography of these two actors. FLAT - SIGNED BY BOTH VIVIEN LEIGH AND LAURENCE OLIVIER to front free endpaper. No other inscriptions or dedications. Illustrated with photographs. Endpapers, flaps of wrapper and page edges foxed. Two light very small marks from tape to each pastedown. Inner hinge visible between portrait frontis and title page but generally a sound copy in a price-clipped, slightly rubbed wrapper that is torn, chipped and worn to head and tail of spine, outer edge of front panel and the corners but is still bright.
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- Bookseller
- Addyman Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86517
- Title
- The Oliviers. A Biography. FLAT - SIGNED BY BOTH LEIGH AND OLIVIER TO FRONT FREE ENDPAPER.
- Author
- BARKER, Felix. (Laurence OLIVIER and Vivien LEIGH)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- FILM and TV signed laurence olivier vivien leigh
- Bookseller catalogs
- FILM and TV;
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