My story / by La Belle Otero (Caroline Otero) ; introduction by Alys Eyre Macklin.
Caroline Otero (1868-1965)
Category
Books
Date
1927
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3249935
Summary
Bibliographic description
264 p., plates : ports. ; 8vo. With eight final pages of publisher's advertisements. Pencil date on rear pastedown: "5/27". Ephemera: loosely inserted: obituary of Caroline Otero from 'The Observer', 18 April 1965, and two press cuttings of photographs of Caroline Otero. Provenance: Pencil inscription on front pastedown: "U.H.R.B. / "Sapphire RYS" / August 1927" [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Twentieth-century pictorial bookplate (sailing ship with Fairhaven arms on sails): ‘Sapphire R.Y.S.’ and ‘Broughton’ [i.e. from the library of the yacht ‘Sapphire’, owned by Urban Hanlon Broughton (1857-1929), later by Cara Leland Rogers, Lady Fairhaven (1867-1939)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's maroon cloth; gilt lettered upper board and spine; maroon top edge.
Makers and roles
Caroline Otero (1868-1965), author Alys Eyre Macklin , author