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Buy this book on-line MIDLER,BETTE: : A VIEW FROM A BROAD.[Author SIGNED copy.]USA.NY.SIMON and SCHUSTER,1980. ISBN 0671247808.
US,Qrto HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,2nd imp. [Complete number line 2 - 10 ascending. NFINE/VG+.] No owner inscrptn but author/ subject's handwritten mauve felt-tip pen ink dedication and signature inscrptn: 'For Do [the three letter name indecipherable] Aloha Bette Midler' ,an inked date 7/12/80 to lower front corner of ffe and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated,author/ subject's biographical colour photographic illustrated dw/dj panels with white lettering to front and black lettering to white background spine/backstrip; with some minimal shelf-wear to lower corner and edges,some minimal creasing/rubbing/chipping - with miniscule loss - to top corners and head of spine/backstrip of dw/dj - no major nicks or tears present. Top,rear edge of dw/dj with a couple of small closed tears/nicks and concomitant creasing,lower,rear corner with an approx 1/2" split/tear.Top+fore-edges clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain brown paper-covered bds with bright,crisp,clean brick- red cloth blind spine with bright, crisp,stamped bronze gilt letters to spine /backstrip,and clean plain white eps - aforementioned author signature/dedication to ffe excepted and noted.US,slim Qrto HB+ dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,2nd imp,12-150pp [paginated] includes Pts I + II comprising 12 sections,profuse contemporary auto+ biographical colour photographs (the majority) and a few similar b/w photographs - all taken by Sean Russell, interspersed throughout the text and the book,plus [unpaginated] publisher's logo vignetted page,a title page,a dedication (to her mother),double-page colour photographic frntis with epigram,another dedication,contents list/table with blank reverse,and the last 8pp of chapter/ section of Pt II.
A semi-autobiographical,camp,funny book about the wit,wisdom,life,and career of the great multi-talented performer Bette Midler,with photographs by Sean Russell. This is a first edition,2nd imp,INSCRIBED by the Divine Miss M.
A chronicle of Bette Midler's world tour --- in her words,her "monumental shlep" with some 2,000 pairs of shoes.In her postscript on the back page,Bette says, ". I wanted so to leave you with memory of the good beneath the gaudy,the saint beneath the paint,the pure little soul that lurks beneath this lurid exterior .".
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