Emerald and Nancy. Lady Cunard and her daughter

Daphne Fielding.

Eyre & Spottiswoode. London. 1968. First editon. Hardback, octavo; pink cloth-bound boards, dust jacket. A couple of book reviews loosely inserted. xvii, 205 pages. Illustrated with hors-texte black and white photographs. English. 225 x 150mm. 0.5kg. . Very good, in very good dust jacket; slight wear to jacket, light ruffling to top edge, not price-clipped; no inscriptions.

Daphne Fielding's double biography of society hostess Emerald Cunard and her estranged daughter, Nancy. The book explores Emerald's marriages and her social and artistic campaigns. It then moves on to Nancy's life in France, her support of Jazz, her fight against racism and fascism, and the work of the Hours Press.