It Isn’t All Mink.

SPANIER, Ginette.

Item Number: 138735

London: Collins, 1959.

First edition of the first volume of Ginette Spanier’s autobiography. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to Vivien Leigh, “Darling Darling Vivien All the love in my heart Ginette – November 1959.” The recipient, Vivien Leigh, was a famous English actress who starred in numerous American films. In near fine condition.

Ginette Spanier was a French Jew who fled Paris at the start of World War II. Returning to France after the war, she eventually became the director of the House of Balmain, a famous Parisian fashion-house. Her status in luxury fashion gave her numerous connections in high society. One of these friendships was with Vivian Leigh, the famous English actress. Spanier wrote of her experiences during the war in this first volume of her autobiography.