BAILEY, PAUL::AN ENGLISH MADAM - THE LIFE AND WORK OF CYNTHIA PAYNE.
- Taschenbuch 1982, ISBN: 9780224020374
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Blackie & Son Undated adventure story, probably thirties, in which three friends buy a parrot who has been taught to speak the directions to some Peruvian treasure. Good plus copy wit… Mehr…
Blackie & Son Undated adventure story, probably thirties, in which three friends buy a parrot who has been taught to speak the directions to some Peruvian treasure. Good plus copy with one gift inscription otherwise clean and solid.. Cloth. Good. Illus. by Thomas Perks. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall., Blackie & Son, 2.5, Highland Park, IL: Clark Publishing Company,, 1962. Inventory # D588-1 FATE (Pulp Digest Magazine); Vol. 15, No. 7, Issue 148, July 1962 True Stories on The Strange, The Unusual, The Unknown - Published by Highland Park, IL: Clark Publishing Company, ** ARTICLES (1) In Jackson, Michigan by Raymond V. Meagre. UPI (2) In Indianapolis, Indiana by Frank Edwards (3) Those Lost Soviet Astronauts by Frank Edwards (4) The Golden Fireflies Of Space by John C. Ross STORIES (1) The Kings Musician And The Haunted Spinet by Pauline Saltzman (2) The Psychic Warning That Stopped The Train by Julie C. Crawford (3) The Restless Sexton by Lilian Chapman (4) Prof. William James "One White Crow" by Alson J. Smith Plus Big Features - Hypnosis Healed The Warts, The Customer In The Cemetery, My Proof Of Survival, The Earth - A Vast "Bell" PRICE = $14; G+; foxing Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First Paperback Ed. & 1st Printing!.. Soft Cover. Good Plus. Pulp Digest / Paperback.., Clark Publishing Company, 1962, 2.5, Don Mills, ON, Canada: Harlequin Books, 1974. A Golden Harlequin Library anthology Volume XLIII [ #43] contains the 3 hard-to-find vintage romances - Away Went Love by Mary Burchell [Harlequin Romance #837, 1964], Nurse in Waiting by Jane Arbor [HR# 646, 1962], and The Reluctant Guest by Rosalind Brett [HR# 869, 1964]. . A Glossy metalic gold mock leather , 7 inch by 4.25 inch hardcover, with navy lettering ...Condition is very good plus. Spine ends bumped. Pages tight and clean with moderate tanning, a nice looking book..........*We have other titles in this genre in stock and give discounts in shipping on additional books sent in the same package, please contact us for more info.**.......WRAPPED IN PLASTIC BAG TO PROTECT CONDITION OF BOOK........Summary - AWAY WENT LOVE - Could she put his love to such a test? Hope Arning was in love with Richard Fander and expected to marry him, but he had speculated and lost money that wasn't his. Now he faced prison, and she was forced to ask Dr. Errol Tamberly to lend them money. She wasn't prepared for Errol's reaction. He would give her the money on one condition; she must marry him if Richard proved reluctant to be the husband of a penniless bride! .......THE RELUCTANT GUEST - When Ann Calvert went to spend a month on a South African farm with Theo Borland and his sister, she expected a pleasant holiday; just that. But she got both less and more than she bargained for. Both Theo and Elva proved to be different from her first idea of them, and there was a totally unexpected element in the person of Storr Peterson -- the most dynamic and disturbing man she had ever met. ...........NURSE IN WAITING - She felt she belonged here. Joanna knew better than to indulge her feelings when she was nursing, but at Carrieghmere this Irish family and its problems had involved her from the very beginning. "It's like a place I've been homesick for all my life," she said. And not just the place. Roger Carnehill was a man she'd been waiting for, too. But that would bring her no happiness -- because Roger was waiting for beautiful young Shuan!. First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus., Harlequin Books, 1974, 3, N.Y.: Avalon Books/Thomas Bouregy and Co., 1959 Ex-Library. Good Plus. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original green cloth on boards. Plastic jacket taped top and bottom to good DJ. St. Joseph's Hospital Nurses' Library stamp, but this one is romantic fiction rather than nursing-related as many of Hamill's others are. A little musty. 220 pp.., Avalon Books/Thomas Bouregy and Co., 1959, 2.5, Golden Press, New York., 1959. First Edition (Shown).. Softcover.. Near Fine/--. 6 H x 4 W x 7/16.. Book T-3. NON SMOKING STORE. My listing includes PHOTO OF ACTUAL BOOK for sale. Book Interior NEAR FINE/ Covers Very Good Plus. Covers are white/burgundy, lettering white/black, full size colour painting on front, 9 small same on back. Spine is square and straight. Covers and spine are flat, clean, bright, no rips, no bent corners, one vertical crease on spine, a few tiny dots of colour missing on front edge of spine, gloss coating has come off in back lower corner, miniscule edge wear. Page edges slightly sunned. Inside of book is tight, clean, clear, bright, flat, smells great. Nostalgic Colour photos. 345 Lovely Colour illustrations by Dorothea and Sy Barlowe. Maps. Tables. A Golden Regional Guide. Full Index., Golden Press, New York., 1959, 4, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj - unpriced,probably indicating an export copy and usually the 1st edn.Bright,clean,glossy laminated b/w lace design illustrated wrap-around dw/dj,with subject b/w photograph to rear wrap; with negligible shelf-wear to edges - no nicks or tears present - and negligible bumping to either edges,corners or spine/backstrip.Top edge clean; fore-edge miniscule thumb mark; contents bright,tight and clean.Maroon paper-covered bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate,plain white eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vii-xpp+1-166pp includes half-tiitle+title pages,contents+illustrations lists, author preface,prologue,Parts I+2 [Pt 1,7 seven chapters and an Interlude,Pt 2,1 chapter],an epilogue,21 b/w contemporary photographs interspersed throughout the text.] On Wednesday,December 6th,1978,the term 'luncheon voucher' took on a new currency.Members of the clergy,Parliament,the Bar and big business were gathered together in Streatham,London for a Christmas party when the police burst in and arrested the hostess.Films,devices and hastily dressed people were taken to the station.Over a year later Cynthia Payne was sentenced to eighteen months in Holloway Prison for 'keeping a disorderly house'.Her distinguished guests went unnamed. Members of the press fell over themselves leaping to her defence.To an amused and largely sympathetic public,Cynthia Payne came to stand for naughtiness as opposed to wickedness - a beacon for genial 'old buffers' in the gloom of declining years.Throughout Paul Bailey's touching, frequently uproarious telling of Cynthia's own story one can see that the sympathy was not misplaced.Cynthia's anarchic dazzle was there right from the beginning,though she had had to overcome the early loss of an adoring mother,the rebuffs of a distant father and comparisons with a determinedly prim sister.Her cousin could not remember a time when Cynthia wasn't talking about sex.It was a fun-loving childhood,to put it mildly.A sequence of largely unscrupulous lovers,who left her frequently pregnant and financially struggling,plus two children and three abortions, led her to the conclusion that 'there wasn't a single man in the whole wide bloody world I could rely on to look after me'.First as a landlady, briefly as a prostitute's maid (having to make lots of tea to accommodate the 'Golden Rain' trade),rather unenthusiastically on the game herself for two years,Cynthia finally had her epiphany: "I found myself when I started organizing sex for other people." Her business worked well because Cynthia was above all understanding and she could keep a straight face.Some of her client's requirements were eye-opening.There was the ex-police superintendent who drove fervently to Somerset so he could take off his clothes and clean Agatha's cooker,the collector of taxes anxious to pretend he was a lesbian,the clergyman who clearly wanted an angel with wings.Through Cynthia's portals passed transvestites and slaves galore,a night-watchman who had never tried sex until he was sixty-two,and her own father. In part,Cynthia's establishment was dedicated to giving the elderly their confidence back, and she gave a £3 discount to old age pensioners,and charged half-price to those who were pretty well past it.She chose her girls for their character and honesty.Her clients were satisfied and impressed. Cynthia's story is fascinating and funny and it will be a rare reader who is not taken by surprise at some point in this book.If it all seems as normal as poached egg on toast,admit it,you've been to Cynthia's. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct and possibly, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.CAPE,1982., 5<
