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Buy this book on-line PORTER**, TONY: : THE GREAT WHITE PALACE.** [Author SIGNED copy.**]LONDON.DOUBLEDAY,2002. ISBN 0385603037.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.[Originally
published DOUBLEDAY,2002,a BANTAM 2nd edition 2003,and then a DEERHILL BOOKS edition,2005 (p/back,1st thus).] FINE.No owner inscrptn,but author's neat,bold, black ink dedication+ signature to front free endpaper: 'To Janet.Best wishes Tony Porter.',and no price-clip to dw/dj. Top+ fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and clean also,appears an unread copy - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,no reading creases to spine/backstrip either.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain,pale pink endpapers - the front free endpaper being author SIGNED+dedicated).UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,1-304pp [paginated] includes prologue,9 chapters,original 1930's b/w illustrations by Charles Mayo, 8pp of contemporary,b/w+colour photographs between pp146/7; plus [unpaginated] SIGNED ffe,half-title+title-pages,a dedication, contents+lists/tables,b/w 1906 map of the island,acknowledgements and publisher advert to rear.
In 1986 Tony Porter and his wife, Beatrice,gave up their successful careers as fashion consultants in London's West End to buy Burgh Island,off the south Devon coast,with it's near derelict,ART DECO hotel.Up to their necks in debt and with a massive programme of repairs ahead of them,they gradually laboured to restore
it to its former glory.
Like St. Michael's Mount,Burgh Island was
originally the site of a medieval monastery.Cut off from the mainland at high tide,it has also been a notorious smugglers' paradise.
Since the hotel's inception in 1929 the rich and famous have been holidaying there; not only did Agatha Christie come ('And Then There Were None' and 'Evil Under the Sun' were both based on the island),but so did Edward,Prince of Wales with Wallis Simpson,Mountbatten,Noel Coward and many others. . . .
Written with warmth and wit,'The Great White Palace' is an inspirational adventure set in a unique place.It is also an entertaining reminder of the giddy delights of a bygone era.
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