[MAXWELL ROBERT]: (1923-1991) British media proprietor, suspected spy and fraudster. An unusual, small collection ...

[MAXWELL ROBERT]: (1923-1991) British media proprietor, suspected spy and fraudster. An unusual, small collection of books bearing the ownership signatures or presentation inscriptions of Maxwell's wife and some of their children, comprising Elisabeth Maxwell (1921-2013, French-born researcher on the Holocaust, husband of publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell; hardback edition of The Maker of Heavenly Trousers by Daniele Vare, published by Methuen & Co. Ltd., London, fourteenth edition, 1951, bearing the pencil ownership signature of Elisabeth Maxwell to the front pastedown), Philip Maxwell (1948- , Son of Robert and Elisabeth Maxwell; paperback edition of the Penguin Special Britain in the Sixties - Housing by Stanley Alderson, published by Penguin Books Ltd., 1962, with a presntation inscription signed by Philip Maxwell to the half title page, 'To Daddy with love from Philip'; a second paperback edition entitled Background to Eastern Europe by F. B. Singleton, published by the Pergamon Press, 1965, bearing the ownership signature of Philip Maxwell to the half title page, dated March 1967 in his hand; and a hardback edition of Greece: A Classical Tour with Extras by Lucile and George Brockway, published by Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1967, bearing the gold ink ownership signature of Philip Maxwell to the front free endpaper, dated August 1968 in his hand) and an unsigned hardback edition of The Story of Poland by Bernard Newman, published by Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, bearing the ownership name and address label of Isabel Maxwell (1950- , French-born entrepreneur and the co-founder of Magellan with her twin sister Christine) to the front pastedown. One of the books is accompanied by a dust jacket. Some light overall age wear, G, 5 Provenance: From the library of Robert Maxwell (1923-1991) British media proprietor, suspected spy and fraudster.