Mistinguett

1938 · 911T51 — London: Hurst and Blackett 1938. First edition. Cloth. Good. 9.5" by 6.5". None. A smart first English translation of this biographical work on French actress and singer Mistinguett signed by the translator and inscribed to W. A. Foyle. First thus. Signed and inscribed to the front endpaper by the translator to William Alfred Westropp Foyle a British bookseller and businessman who co-founded Foyles bookshop in 1903. As one of the leading London booksellers of the twentieth century when the brothers opened their first bookshop the business grew so rapidly that by the 1920s they held a stock of four million volumes. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece fifteen plates and nine in-text figures. Collated complete. The life of Mistinguett born Jeanne Florentine Bourgeois a French actress and singer who was at one time the highest-paid female entertainer in the world. Translated and edited by Hubert Griffith a British playwright and editor. From the library of Christopher Foyle a British philanthropist and the chairman of the famous Foyle's Bookshop in London. In the original full cloth binding. Externally very smart with light fading to the spine and a mark to the front board. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light age toning to the endpapers. Bookseller's label to the front pastedown. Good Hurst and Blackett hardcover