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The English Governess at the Siamese Court: Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok -
Anna Harriette Leonowens
1870 - Fields, Boston - First Edition
A lovely bright first edition of Leonowens’ remarkable memoirs, rare in the original gilt decorated cloth.
The basis for Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1951 hit musical ‘The King and I’, starring Gertrude Lawrence as Leonowens and Yul Brynner as the King.
Illustrated with sixteen black and white engraved illustrations from photographs presented to the author by the new King of Siam, who owed his education to ‘that tiresome, naughty and meddlesome, Mem Leonowens . . . a good and true lady’.
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Price HK$ 8,000
1870 - Fields, Boston - First Edition
A lovely bright first edition of Leonowens’ remarkable memoirs, rare in the original gilt decorated cloth.The basis for Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1951 hit musical ‘The King and I’, starring Gertrude Lawrence as Leonowens and Yul Brynner as the King.
Illustrated with sixteen black and white engraved illustrations from photographs presented to the author by the new King of Siam, who owed his education to ‘that tiresome, naughty and meddlesome, Mem Leonowens . . . a good and true lady’.
More details
Price HK$ 8,000