BARKER, Felix. The Oliviers. London: Hamish Hamilton. [1953].
8vo. Original cloth with illustrated dust-wrappers (price-clipped); pp. xiv, 313, frontispiece and numerous plates after photographs; very slight slant to binding, edges of wrappers minimally worn, top and fore-edge a little spotted, otherwise a very attractive and clean copy.
First edition, frontispiece signed by Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, the Hollywood power couple. However, "the Hollywood love story of Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier is remembered today as one filled with passion, romance, betrayal, and heartbreak" (Chanel Vargas in Harper's Bazaar online).
Provenance: Inscribed by the previous private owner's future father to his future wife for Christmas 1953 on front fly-leaf. By descent.
SKU: 2121210
BARKER, Felix. The Oliviers. London: Hamish Hamilton. [1953].
8vo. Original cloth with illustrated dust-wrappers (price-clipped); pp. xiv, 313, frontispiece and numerous plates after photographs; very slight slant to binding, edges of wrappers minimally worn, top and fore-edge a little spotted, otherwise a very attractive and clean copy.
First edition, frontispiece signed by Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, the Hollywood power couple. However, "the Hollywood love story of Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier is remembered today as one filled with passion, romance, betrayal, and heartbreak" (Chanel Vargas in Harper's Bazaar online).
Provenance: Inscribed by the previous private owner's future father to his future wife for Christmas 1953 on front fly-leaf. By descent.
SKU: 2121210
