Cocktails & Laughter. The Albums of Loelia Lindsay

Loelia, Duchess of Westminster. Edited by Hugo Vickers.

Hamish Hamilton. London. 1983. First edition. Hardback, small octavo; blue cloth-bound boards, dust jacket. 128 pages. Illustrated throughout with approx. 200 b&w photographs. English. 255 x 195mm. 0.6kg. 9780241110836. Very good, in very good dust jacket; slight shelf wear, not price-clipped, no inscriptions.

A collection of photographs from the albums of Loelia Lindsay, Duchess of Westminster, with her own commentary. From twenty large leather-bound albums she has chosen photographs that capture the years between the two World Wars and her life married to Bendor, Duke of Westminster. Included are photographs of Noel Coward, the Prince of Wales, Cecil Beaton, the Duke of Kent and Princess Marina, Lady Diana Cooper, Winston Churchill and many others from the Westminster set.