Congress Dances Unknown - 1985

Pocket, October 1985. Mass Market Paperback. USED Good.

New York. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1984. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Autograph; x, (2), 228 pages; Inscribed and SIGNED by the AUTHOR on ffep -- "To Kay and Rowly / Evans, with / fondest love from / Susan Mary Alsop / May 15, 1984" Clean and secure in original black cloth binding in very nice dustjacket. Index, Bibliography. Frontispiece and 17 illustrations on coated stock, mostly portraits of some involved. Black cloth, spine letters gilt, two dancing figures blind-stamped on front cover. This sparkling narrative, interweaving high-level, inner-circle gossip with firm scholarship invites us to share in the goings-on-amorous and political-at the 1815 Congress of Vienna. Susan Mary Alsop and her second husband columnist Joseph Alsop were quite good friends with Rowly and Kay Evans, living just a few blocks from each other in Georgetown, Washington, DC. PROVENANCE: Rowland Evans was a provocative newspaper columnist, commentator and author who… Leer más

New York: Doubleday. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1984. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Autograph; x, (2), 228 pages; Inscribed and SIGNED by the AUTHOR on ffep -- "For dear Kay and Rowlie / with / fond love from / Susan Mary / September 20, 1975" Clean and secure in original binding in very good dustjacket (price-clipped) with some wear at head of spine (now in protective mylar cover). Susan Mary Alsop and her second husband columnist Joseph Alsop were quite good friends with Rowland and Kay Evans, living just a few blocks from each other in Georgetown, Washington, DC. "As wife of an American attaché to the United States Embassy in Paris, Susan Mary Alsop kept up an intimate, witty, and extremely candid correspondence with her childhood friend Marietta Tree. This remarkable epistolary journal records her impressions of the exciting years she spent as an observer from a very privileged vantage point, as a ravaged Europe emerged from World War… Leer más