Description
From the library of First Lady Barbara Bush, first edition of Maverick In Mauve: The Diary of a Romantic Age by Florence Adele Sloane.
Octavo, 227pp. Gray hardcover, black cloth spine, title stamped in gilt on spine. Stated “first edition” on copyright page. Light foxing to leaf ends, a near fine example. In the publisher’s dust jacket, price-clipped, light shelf wear and chipping. Signed on front free endpaper by Barbara Bush, dated September 1983. Provenance: From the Bush Family Estate in Kennebunkport, Maine.
Laid into this book is a newspaper clipping featuring Jackie Kennedy Onassis and members of the Auchincloss family, dated 1983.
