Happy Times by Lee Radziwill (SIGNED)
RADZIWILL, Lee. Happy Times. New York: Assouline, 2000.
First edition. Signed and inscribed by the author. Lee Radziwill's fascinating memoir, half notebook and half photo album, featuring photos by Peter Beard, Andy Warhol, Cecil Beaton, and others. Happy Times presents Lee Radziwill’s reminiscences of the 1960s, a period of her life that was particularly rich and exciting. Rather than offering a chronological story, the book evokes people, places and moments, and takes us back to one of the most fascinating period of the 20th century. Includes chapters on Conca, ‘a fishing village on the Amalfi coast is my idea of paradise’; Southampton, Long Island; Christmas with the Kennedys; Montauk and the Beales, with fascinating portraits of Andy Warhol, as well as her eccentric Beale relatives - Aunt Edie and her daughter “Little Eddie”, and their derelict mansion, Grey Gardens, including details of the making of the Maysle brothers cult film Grey Gardens; her friendship with Truman Capote; summers in Greece with Aristotle Onassis; and her sister, Jackie Kennedy Onassis.
HB (ISBN: 2843232503). 900g; 28x19.5cm. 168 pp; b/w + col photos. Slightly bumped. Very good in very good dust jacket (not priced-clipped).