A King’s Story: The Memoirs of the Duke of Windsor.

WINDSOR, Duke of [Edward VIII].

$2,800.00

Item Number: 145247

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1951.

Signed limited edition of the Duke of Windsor’s classic autobiography. Royal octavo, bound in the full publisher’s morocco with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, three gilt coats of arms as Prince of Wales, King of England, and Duke of Windsor with accompanying gilt signatures to the front panel, gilt inner dentelles stamped-in, watered-silk end leaves, top edge gilt, silk ribbon bound-in, frontispiece of the Duke of Windsor leaving Westminster after his first and last Opening of Parliament November 3, 1936, foldout map of the Duke of Windsor’s travels abroad from 1898 to 1936, illustrated with photographs. One of three hundred and eighty-five numbered copies signed by the author on the limitation page, this is number 11. With an additional note inscribed by the Duke of Windsor on his official monogrammed stationary affixed to the front free endpaper, “To Harry and Fay with best wishes from Edward April 1951.” In very good condition. Housed in the original slipcase.

'A King's Story' surveys Edward's life up until his abdication in December 1936, from his upbringing as a prince to his decision to abdicate the throne to marry Wallis Warfield Simpson.