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[Baekeland, Barbara Daly] Robins, Natalie / Aronson, Steven M.L. Savage Grace, The Story of a Doomed Family. His Great Grandfather was an Industrial Genius. His Family had Wealth, Beauty and Power, he Committed the Crime of Crimes. First Edition. London, Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1985. 23.6cm 15.7cm. 473 pages with several photographs. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. Related newspaper-article pasted into the book on page 368. The Baekeland family/ genius, wealth, beauty/ Leo Baekeland invented the plastic, Bakelite, at the turn of the century/ His grandson, Brooks, once described as an intellectual Errol Flynn, married the flamboyant society hostess, Barbara Daly/ their son Antony was strikingly handsome/ soon scandal broke: Brooks was living in France with his son's girlfriend/ in 1972 Antony Baekeland stabbed his mother to death with a kitchen knife in her London flat/ letters, confidential hospital and prison documents/ hundreds of candid interviews/ a powerful portrait of obsessive love and murder/ the Baekelands were incapable of saving themselves/ their envied existence harboured a deadly force/ compulsive and shattering/ money, madness and matricide. Natalie Robins is the author of four books of poetry/ Steven M.L. Aronson was educated at Yale and Christ Church, Oxford, and is the author of a book, Hype.
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- PublisherMorrow
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0575037385
- ISBN 13 9780575037380
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages512
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Photographic (illustrator). First Edition. biographical notes. The text is illustrated with two inserts, of eight pages each, of black-and-white photography. Black coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. Photographic illustrated dustwrapper with red and black coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. Savage Grace is a story of spectacular decadence -- of money, madness and matricide. But it is also about a family unhappy in very much its own way, declining from genius to glamour to final dissolution. Seldom has there been so devastating an exposure of the consequences, for the most sophisticated people, of failure in the simplest duties of love. -- William F. Buckley Jr.  from the front panel blurb. Softening to the backstrip edges and rubbing to the book edges. Light age toning of the textblock edges and pages. There is an erasure mark to the top right-hand corner of the free front end paper. Creasing to the dustwrapper edges and rubbing to the dustwrapper panels. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [9], 10-473, [7] pages, Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Law & Criminal Studies; ISBN: 0575037385. ISBN/EAN: 9780575037380. Inventory No: 0115301. Seller Inventory # 0115301
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 473 pp., +VII blank, 16 pages of black and white photographs, biographical notes. Photographic illustrated dustwrapper. Savage Grace is a story of spectacular decadence -- of money, madness and matricide. But it is also about a family unhappy in very much its own way, declining from genius to glamour to final dissolution. Seldom has there been so devastating an exposure of the consequences, for the most sophisticated people, of failure in the simplest duties of love. -- William F. Buckley Jr Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Law & Criminal Studies; ISBN: 0575037385. ISBN/EAN: 9780575037380. Inventory No: 0201835. Seller Inventory # 0201835
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