Thesiger, Sir Wilfred Patrick

First Edition, first impression, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED to 'Pauline' (Lady Rumbold 1927-2008, actress and writer), printing sequence line '135798642'. Original black cloth with gilt ettering to spine and boards, light-brown endpapers. Clear, removable, archival protective sleeve fitted to dust-jacket. Large Octavo. pp. [xvi], 224, photographic illustrations after Thesiger. Lady Rumbold was the daughter of the actress Hermione Baddely and the writer Stephen Tennant, marrying Julian Pitt-Rivers, then Euan Graham and finally Sir Anthony Rumbold, 10th Bt. Rumbold had known Thesiger at Eton and was his contemporary at Magdalen College, Oxford.