HARDBACK "SCARCE FIRST EDITION," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st. full number line.* Date of Publication: 2000* Publisher: Sidgewick & Jackson.* Binding and cover condition: Maroon cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, very slight lean. VG++* Jacket condition: Yellow illustrated dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £12.99 Minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edges. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning seems little used if at all. FINE.* Illustrations: One or two b/w line drawings.* Pages: 208 pp. text. iv pp. Index at rear.* Description: The author first encountered royalty as a boy in South Africa when George VI and Queen Elizabeth stopped off at a local railway station during their state visit. He was granted rare interviews with the Queen Mother, Princess Margaret, Prince Charles and Princes Alice, Duchess of Gloucester. But not all his audiences were so formal: as a part-time waiter in a Chelsea restaurant he and his colleagues had to pretend to be fellow diners and so divert Princess Margaret and her party from realizing that the restaurant was deserted, and on another occasion he held up the Queen Mother's car by dropping an ironing board in the street!. This is a sparkling and often irreverent memoir on the changing nature of royalty and its characters.* A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st/1st with only minor faults reducing it to VG+.*

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 2812
Title: Royal Subjects: A Biographer's Encounters
Author: Aronson, Theo
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - F/VG++/VG+
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0283072768
ISBN 13: 9780283072765
Publisher: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd
Place of Publication: London Uk 212
This edition first published: 2000-12
Size: 22.3 x 14.2 x 2.1 cm

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