Empress Bianca, Rare First Edition
Campbell, Lady Colin. Empress Bianca. First
Edition. 2005. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition.
Nothing is more intriguing than a book pulled from the
shelves as result of a lawsuit, which is the case here. Litigation initiated by
Lily Safra, who apparently saw some of herself in the heroine of this story,
sent most copies to the incinerator, and the few survivors were priced
accordingly. The book is a barely disguised roman à clef of
international society, and the criminal acts that sometimes occur there. A
sanitized softcover version was later printed in the United States, but only
this scarce original edition contains the material that provoked Mrs. Safra to
contact her lawyers.
“When your mother is
reputed to be one of the richest widows on earth, and you know that she ranks
alongside Catherine the Great when it comes to getting away with murder, you
tread carefully.”
--Lady Colin Campbell
