Queen of the Ritz

296pp, two sections of black and white photographic plates. White cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on spine; mustard endpapers. 8vo. Lightly rubbed corners and spine ends, top and bottom edges starting to tan; very slightly cocked. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has some loss, has light shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, not price clipped; flaps tanning. The biography of Blanche Auzello who, together with her husband ran the Ritz Hotel in Paris, and relayed messages for the French Resistance during the Nazi occupation of Paris in the Second World War.