Get Ready for Battle.

Jhabvala (R. Prawer)

Get Ready for Battle.

Description: FIRST EDITION, some minor foxing largely restricted to borders, pp. 224, crown 8vo, original green boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, edges lightly foxed, dustacket design by D.V. Cowen with a few faint spots and top corner of rear flap torn off, very good

Publication Details: John Murray, [1962]

Notes: With a card signed by the author laid in - but of more moment, perhaps, is the expansive ownership inscription on the flyleaf: 'Burton, Beau Rivage'. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were married a couple of years after this novel was published and spent their honeymoon at the Beau Rivage hotel; the handwriting is sufficiently alike to contemporary examples of hers (allied with the fact of giving as residence a hotel closely associated with her) to assert the probability of this being Elizabeth Taylor's copy....moreWith a card signed by the author laid in - but of more moment, perhaps, is the expansive ownership inscription on the flyleaf: 'Burton, Beau Rivage'. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were married a couple of years after this novel was published and spent their honeymoon at the Beau Rivage hotel; the handwriting is sufficiently alike to contemporary examples of hers (allied with the fact of giving as residence a hotel closely associated with her) to assert the probability of this being Elizabeth Taylor's copy. HIDE