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Double Exposure, A Twin Autobiography, Signed to Jerome Zerbe
[Signed by Both Sisters; Inscribed to Jerome Zerbe] Vanderbilt, Gloria and Furness, Lady Thelma. Double Exposure, A Twin Autobiography. First Edition. 1958. Book is in very good condition dust jacket is in good plus condition—jacket shows rubbing, edge tears, and discoloration to the back cover. An image of the sisters is pasted to the front endpaper. The book is inscribed, “To Jerome Zerbe, With our very best wishes, Thelma Furness, Oct. 23rd 1958.” On that same page, it is also signed by Gloria Vanderbilt.
This is the dual autobiography of the Morgan sisters, identical twins who debuted with a splash in 1921 and came to personify the glamour and fast-living of the 1920s. One was at the center at the most famous custody battle of the 20th Century, fighting her sister-in-law Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney for guardianship of her heiress daughter Gloria (who would grow up to become quite famous herself). The other was the married mistress of King Edward VIII who made the mistake of introducing him to her good friend Wallis Simpson. Jerome Zerbe, to whom this copy is inscribed, was once the El Morocco court photographer. He was fascinated by café society, of whom these glamorous twin sisters were once its epitome (and its cautionary tale).
“Every age has its charm and its moment of beauty. And it is of these that we have tried to write, framing their special quality in the events that shaped our lives.”
--Lady Thelma Furness