No Feast Lasts Forever.

Madame Wellington [Oei Hui-lan]

Verlag: Quadrangle, New York, 1975

Beschreibung

First edition of the autobiography of the First Lady of China. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "I have the good fortune to be a friends of the 2 famous couple Amb. and Mrs. Henry Taylor who like my book New York May 10 1976 Huilan Koo." The recipient, Henry Junior Taylor was an economist, author, radio broadcaster and former United States Ambassador to Switzerland He served as a foreign correspondent for the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain in the early years of World War II. After the war, Taylor hosted the General Motors-sponsored radio programÂYour Land and Mine, on which he was known for his conservative commentary.ÂTaylor was a columnist for theÂUnited Feature SyndicateÂafter serving as Ambassador. He authored several nonfiction books, includingÂAn American Speaks His MindÂandÂIt Must Be a Long War, and a novel,ÂThe Big Man. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by A. Peschcke. Color photograph by Elizabeth Gee. Written with Isabella Toves. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed. Madame Wellington Koo, was a Chinese-Indonesian international socialite and style icon, and, from late 1926 until 1927, the First Lady of the Republic of China. She was married firstly to British consular agent Beauchamp Caulfield-Stoker, then to the pre-communist Chinese statesman Wellington Koo, and was a daughter and heiress of the colonial Indonesian tycoon Oei Tiong Ham, Majoor der Chinezen. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 144114

Bibliografische Details

Titel: No Feast Lasts Forever.

Verlag: Quadrangle, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1975

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag

Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers

Auflage: 1. Auflage