Nigel Dempster’s Address Book, The Social Gazatteer, Signed
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[Signed Presentation] Dempster, Nigel. Nigel Dempster’s Address Book, The Social Gazatteer. First Edition. 1990. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition. Book is warmly inscribed, “To all my very good contacts (nudge, nudge, know I mean) at the Academy Club. See you in my column!! Love, Nigel.” Beneath the inscription he has drawn a simple illustration with the caption “My Bottom!”.
In Jane Stanton Hitchcock’s novel One Dangerous Lady, she wrote that the five most feared words in New York are ‘Have you seen Page Six?’” In London, they were “Have you read Nigel Dempster?” This A to Z book provides capsule biographies of those covered in his Daily Mail columns, complete with a laundry list of scandals, divorces, affairs, bankruptcies, etc. Includes b & w photographic illustration.
“Thatcherite entrepreneurism [liberated] thousand of urgent young things from the prospect of humdrum office life, to become Yuppies with champagne tastes and Porsches to prove the merit of their calling.”
--Nigel Dempster
In Jane Stanton Hitchcock’s novel One Dangerous Lady, she wrote that the five most feared words in New York are ‘Have you seen Page Six?’” In London, they were “Have you read Nigel Dempster?” This A to Z book provides capsule biographies of those covered in his Daily Mail columns, complete with a laundry list of scandals, divorces, affairs, bankruptcies, etc. Includes b & w photographic illustration.
“Thatcherite entrepreneurism [liberated] thousand of urgent young things from the prospect of humdrum office life, to become Yuppies with champagne tastes and Porsches to prove the merit of their calling.”
--Nigel Dempster
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