Description
Finely bound first edition of Her Own Rules by Barbara Taylor Bradford, from her personal collection.
Octavo, [8], 310pp. Finely bound in full green morocco, gilt trim along covers. Four raised bands, title in gilt on spine. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Books from the library of Barbara Taylor Bradford are bound in the style of the Bayntun-Riviere Bindery. Full number line listed on copyright page. Solid text block, sunned spine, otherwise fine. Housed in a matching green morocco slipcase with matching marbled paper interior, similarly sunned along edges.
Provenance: Doyle Auctions of New York, May 2025. This copy is from the private collection of Barbara Taylor Bradford, a British-American novelist. Following the success of her debut novel, A Woman of Substance (1979), Bradford wrote 40 best-selling novels, often about young women advancing in the world through hard work.