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Branden Publishing Company, Published 1986. Hardcover, 142 pp.; 24 cm; with an introduction by Prince Franz Hohenlohe; illustrated with 24 pages of black-and-white photographic plates with commentaries. Inscribed and Signed by Buddy Galon.
In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Red cloth-covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Mild shelf and edge wear. Binding tight. Personalized inscription and signature by Buddy Galon in ink on front free endpaper. Otherwise, pages clean and unmarked. Pictorial dust jacket, not price-clipped ($14.95), has light shelf and edge wear. Laid in: two folded sheets of enlarged copies of the Star magazine article of December 23, 1986, pp. 6-8, the first of two published excerpts from the book (Wicked Lady Lawford: The Cruel Things She Said About the Kennedys; Peter Lawford's Acid-Tongued Mother), and an original 1986 newspaper clipping with a photograph of Galon after his talk on the book to the Palm Springs Women's Press Club. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Memoir of Lady May Lawford, mother of actor Peter Lawford, narrated to Buddy Galon between 1967 and 1969 and held back, by their agreement, until after her death in 1972 and her son's in 1984. Includes her views of the Kennedys after Peter's marriage to Patricia Kennedy, Joseph and Rose Kennedy, JFK and Bobby, Marilyn Monroe's final phone call to Peter, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and her husband General Sir Sydney Lawford. Photographs and commentaries at rear. Contents: Introduction by Prince Franz Hohenlohe; Foreword by Buddy Galon; Welcome To My Drawing Room; Lady Lawford: Beginnings Of A Bitch; Peter Lawford: Beginning Of A Bastard; Patricia Kennedy: The Bride, The Bitch; The Kennedys: Those Barefoot Irish Peasants; Do You Know The Duchess?; Lady Lawford: Who's Who In My Life; Lady Lawford: Fiends And Friends; Lady Lawford: The Actress And The Writer; Whatever Happened To Lady Lawford; Afterword by Buddy Galon; Photographs and Commentaries; Index.