Fire in my Blood (1958, first edition)
Denisa, Lady Newborough's colourful autobiography
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First edition. Hardback. 22 × 14cm, 212pp.
The autobiography of one of the 20th century’s most colourful and audacious socialites. Denisa Braun (born c1913 in Romania) had a colourful early life, working as high-wire walker, a nude dancer in nightclubs, and a striptease artist, she was a pioneer female aviator, she married Thomas John Wynn, the 5th Baron Newborough in 1939 (divorced 1947), and met Hitler and Mussolini (apparently she escaped Hitler's advances by claiming she had toothache). In her later life, she became quite a well-known milliner and ran an antiques shop in London. Her autobiography is candid about her love-life, and her introduction notes "I have been asked why I have crucified myself to make this book. The answer is simple—I needed the money".
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A good reading copy. The covers are rubbed and faded, but the contents remain in strong readable condition. Previous owner's name to ffep.
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£20.00
