Mother Anguish: A Memoir

First edition, first impression.  214pp, plus a central section of plate illustrations.  Black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on the spine. 8vo.  Volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout.  In its original illustrated dust jacket, price clipped, very slightly bumped on extreme edges. A candid memoir in which Basia relates the tribulations of her childhood and youth and her tumultuous relationship with her mother, Camilla - a dazzling, riotous and truly eccentric character with an explosive dark side.