MEMORABLE BALLS

First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Small 4to.pp. 116. "Eleven essays by distinguished authors, each of whom discusses a memorable ball that was also an historic occasion." Contributors include: James Leaer, Harold Acton, Françoise Boucher, R. Harcourt–Smith, Christopher Sykes. Original publisher's cloth binding in dark blue, lettered gilt at spine. Colourfully illustrated dust jacket by Goetz, lettered white. Black and white drawings and spirited full-colour illustrations by Walter Goetz. Very good in minus very good dust jacket. Price clipped dust jacket nicked and chipped at edges with some loss and a repaired tear.