JMVINTAGE
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Location: Palm Desert, CA
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Very Good
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FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. 280 pages including the index with 12 pages of black and white photos. The [...]
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. 280 pages including the index with 12 pages of black and white photos. The book is VERY GOOD with a publisher's flaw (small wrinkle) on lower front, light wear on lower corners, few discoloration spots on the side page edges, pencil marks on the inside front board, FFEP shows owners name and discoloration on lower edge, and half title page shows owners name. The dust jacket is VERY GOOD with minor wear to spine ends, edges and corners. A small closed tear and crease on lower front spine side. A brown stain on the top back flap edge. Covered in archival jacket. JMVintage specializes in books, magazines, and treasures related to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor....and other curious people. This book is based on the period of time the Duke and Duchess of Windsor spent in Nassau after departing Europe and the author notes, " this book would have been impossible without the careful, painstaking and sometimes ingenious help of archivists". The Windsor's life entertwined with Sir Harry Oakes who was murdered while in Nassau. There are four parts of this book, Part One-TREASON; Part Two-RIOT; Part Three-MURDER; Part Four-REFLECTION. Dust jacket notes read: The King Over the Water is a royal melodrama-a true and startling story of murder, riot and treason involving the most glamorous royal couple of the century. In 1940, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor arrived in Nassau, where the Duke was to take up his post as Governor of the Bahamas. They were still the most romantic couple in the world, he the handsome Prince of Wales, she the woman for whose sake he had given up a crown. But in Washington and London the royal Governor and his wife were already under suspicion in offical quarters. The pro-German sentiments he had expressed during the 1930s were already well known, and the contacts that the couple had had with German agents and sympathizers during their sojourn in France and Portugal after the abdication had made their presence in Europe intolerable. Exile in the Bahamas was Churchill's way of keeping the Duke and Duchess out of harm's way. After all, nothing ever happened in the BahamasÃÃ. This is the story of how the Windsors' reputation was finally ruined-when the Duke was given a kingdom of his own. This book is an absolute essential for the Duke and Duchess of Windsor collector, providing one author's account of the Windsor's lives, circa-Bahamas.
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$20.25
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