Heads and Tales: Betty Ross Presents by Betty Ross
Heads and Tales: Betty Ross Presents by Betty Ross
£325.00
Inscribed “To Christine [sic] Foyle with happy memories of pleasant meetings” by Betty Ross along with signatures and notes from Sophie Tucker and others. Ross, a Jewish-American journalist in the United Kingdom, conducted a range of celebrity interviews in her lifetime, some compiled in this volume. Ross recounts meetings with Josephine Baker, Marie Stopes, Elinor Glyn, and Queen Marie of Yugoslavia. An association copy between career women, as Christina Foyle was the force behind London bookshop Foyle’s.
Hardcover. Blue cloth boards. Dust jacket with one small hole and several intact tears. xxii, 300, 32 adverts. pages. 19 x 13 cm. Very good book in very good jacket.
London: Rich & Cowan Ltd., 1934.