Xaviera Hollander - Child No More: A memoir

Xaviera Hollander - Child No More: A memoir - New York - Regan Books / HarperCollins Publishers - 2002 - 1st edition - [xiv], [306] pp - Hardcover with dust jacket - 15 x 22 cm. - Design: Kate Nichols.

Condition: Excellent - SIGNED by Xaviera, see info below.

Original USA edition of the memories of her youth and (the loss of her) parents by the famous Dutch call girl Vera de Vries (1943-), adventurer and once New York's most expensive prostitute. Illustrated with black and white photos. Author photo: George Rabovsky. Cover design: Matteo Bologna / Mucca Design & Rudo Bodoni. HARDBACK FIRST EDITION.

"The true story of the woman behind the Happy Hooker and her parents, a Dutch Jewish doctor and a beautiful French-German fashion model; the story of their struggle for survival in the Japanese camps of the occupied Dutch East Indies." The book is primarily an ode to her mother Germaine de Vries-Schlütter.

¶ This copy with a beautiful handwritten dedication by the author in English with her signature and a signed heart below: "Dear Josey / A much more serious / lifestory. / Enjoy / see you at the / theater / Love Xaviera."