The Surprise Of Cremona

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1955. 1st Edition /2nd Imp. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1st Edition / 2nd Impression. DESCRIPTION: Grey and pink illustrated DJ over light blue cloth. Language: English. Book Condition: Good: Light wear to corners, edges and spine ends. Sunned upper an lower exposed edges. Spotted text block edges. DJ Condition: Good: Wear, creasing and chipping to upper and lower edges, corners and spine ends. Wear to fold over edges. Spotting to centre section of front cover. Unclipped. In protective cover Pages 295. Size: 20.5cm by 14cm. AUTHOR: Edith Templeton (1916, Prague - 2006, Bordighera) was a novelist, who also wrote under the pseudonym Louise Walbrook. She was educated at the French lycée in Prague and left the city in 1938 to marry an Englishman. Her short stories began to appear in The New Yorker in the 1950s. Over the next several decades she published a number of novels as well as a popular travel book, The Surprise of Cremona. Edith Templeton left England in 1956 to live in India with her second husband, a noted cardiologist and the physician to the king of Nepal. Her novel Gordon was first published by Olympia Press in 1966 under the pseudonym Louise Walbrook and was subsequently banned in England and Germany, and was then pirated around the world. She lived in various parts of Europe and made her final home in Bordighera, on the Italian Riviera. She died in June 2006. BOOK RESUME: Edith Templeton, bohemian aristocrat, accomplished novelist, and widow of the physician to the King of Nepal, wrote this highly individual account of her visit to six northern Italian towns in the early 50s. Enchantingly evocative of the time and places, her vintage narrative is a gem of travel literature.