B/w photos, index. Dust jacket protected in a removable Brodart cover. Dark gray boards and black spine imprinted in gold with title and author's name. Photograph collage on end papers. Stated First Edition with full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Thirty-two pages of black and white photographs. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 460 pages. Liz Smith, the "Grande Dame of Dish," has been covering the comings and goings of the rich and infamous for more than four decades from her privileged front-row perch on the front lines of celebrity journalism. Now -- in her own words -- comes the sensationally candid and down-to-earth memoir of a starstruck little tomboy from Fort Worth, Texas, named Mary Elizabeth Smith, who grew up to becom the highest-paid print journalist in the world.