HC2016 Catalogue

A r c h i t e c t u r e B i o g r a p h y T r a v e l S o c i e t y
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HOLIDAY CATALOGUE 2016
I N T R O D U C T I O N
How tragic and how glorious is the

passing of time!
puzzle as complete with only a few inadequate

pieces. [Cable news + religious dogma = not
much of anything.]
--Little Edie Beale
That does not mean we all have to be of the

intelligentsia. Diana Vreeland declared, If we have
an intellectual working for Vogue, hes running
the elevator! I get the sentiment. Pure academic
theorizing, untethered to how we actually live,
comes with its own set of worries. Correlating
literature with our own experiences, however, is
one of lifes great pleasuresit connects us to both
the present and the past and softens the loneliness
intrinsic to the human condition.
t is fitting that Little Edie opens this years

catalogue. She was the first reality superstar and
its cultural apogee. How extraordinary that one
of her successors in the medium has been elected
to the presidency of the United States, the most
powerful job on earth. From Grey Gardens to the
White House Orangerie: reality programming
you have come a long way baby.
It is an astonishing shuffle of the cards that has left some
questioning whether the electorate was playing with a full deck.
It is also an event so significant to cultural historya primary
focus of Nick Harvill Librariesthat not to mention it would be
ignoring the elephant (or donkey) in the room.
As we contemplate the implications of the election, we seek
answers via social media and the Internet. That is akin to
instructing a murderer to investigate his own crime. Technology
has given us so much, but its dark side is that it has also flattened
us out, trapping us in an echo chamber that obliterates the past
and disparages opposing points of view.
Books enable us to see the temporal world in its proper perspective.

It is a lesson so easy to forget that it must be constantly relearned.
Everything is transitory. Ying becomes yang. Chanel liberates
woman from her corset only for Dior ensnare her in it once
again. Yippies become yuppies and join the Reagan Revolution. A
president of exquisite gentility is replaced by his opposite.
Time despises entropy, and it is inevitable that good will revert to
bad. It is only in the long arc of history that we see progress. Do
not despair. Take comfort in the words of that unwittingly wise
woman, Little Edie Beale. How tragic and how glorious is the
passing of time!
Like Homer Simpson said of alcohol, the Internet is both the cause Happy Holidays,
and solution to all of our problems. There is a reason it is called the
World Wide Web and not the World Deep one. In places, it is baby- NICK HARVILL
pool shallow. Worthwhile books and fascinating people
have faded into oblivion, barely covered online. For
the Nick Harvill Libraries blog that is an opportunity.
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particular subject matter online (a selection of which
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have been reformatted and included in this catalogue).
Monday, December 19.
Books are not perfect, but in their sum-total, they come

close. They are pieces of an infinite and ever-changing
puzzle. We must constantly resist the all-too human
temptation to arrogantly decide where a puzzle piece
ought to go and proceed to hammer it into place. Just
as tempting, particularly for nonreaders, is to see the
Libraries. We also specialize in assembling selections of books

or entire libraries which reflect a clients personal and professional
interests.
Consulting. Nick Harvill Libraries will catalogue existing libraries
and offer advice on how to best preserve their value.
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NANCY REAGAN IN WASHINGTON
GLAM-NOST
Is it possible to get to the top of the greasy pole without
intrigue, or guile? It almost seems as if in this case the
answer may be yes.
--Lady Diana Mosley on Ronald Reagan
The reactionary Kirkpatrick was a staunch foe of detente. To the

Soviets, her presence at President Reagans side was a visible sign
of the countrys unity in favor of the treaty.
Though not apparent at the time, the treaty and state dinner ushered
in an era of relative tranquility in a turbulent world. Even though its
significance is best appreciated in retrospect, the state dinner was
nevertheless a hot ticket in Washington. It was one of those evenings
in which luminaries actively campaigned for invitations and made
excuses to leave town if not included. Itwas easily the most talkedabout event since the dinner for the Prince and Princess of Wales in
1985 (and of far greater significance to history).
DUST-JACKET DUST-UP
Even though Americans and Brits speak a variation of the same

language, it is common for the United States and the United
Kingdom to publish separate editions of the same title. When a
book travels across the Atlantic, the editors typically do more than
simply remove or add a U to words like candor and flavor.
Nearly always, there is a different concept for the dust jacket. One
reason is because the jacket is a means of advertising, and American
and British audiences have divergent interests and sensibilities.
In the case of autobiography, it is also a question of public image.
Consider the case of My Turn, The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan. In
the American edition, the former first lady appears sans jewelry,
wearing an all-American red-checkered blouse, as if she was en
route to a church picnic or Wal-Mart. In the English edition, she
was able to dress more elegantly, as if she were preparing to meet
Lily Safra for luncheon at the Savoy.
The Reagans and Gorbachevs at the December 1987 White House State Dinner
Ronald Reagan joked of the Republican Party, Sometimes our right

hand doesnt know what our far right hand is doing. However, that
is not entirely true. Someone in his campsomeone quite close to
him in factmade it her business to know such things. That person
was his wife Nancy. If indeed the President did ascend a greasy pole
unsullied, it is obvious on whose shoulders he stood to get there.
Her husbands legacy was always Nancy Reagans top priority.
It surpassed any concern she had for her own approval rating.
As Thomas Mallons fascinating (and worthwhile) novel Finale
proposes, Nancy Reagan worked tirelessly behind the scenes
against the hardliners in her husbands administration. She wanted
peace to be his legacy. In Finale, and perhaps in real life, it is Nancy
Reagan who tipped the scales in favor of a pact with the Soviet
Union.
Consider her maneuver at the 1987 state dinner for Mikhail and
Raisa Gorbachev. Mrs. Regan paid careful attention to the political
implications of the seating chart. According to then-White House
Social Secretary Gahl Hodges Burt, Mrs. Reagan purposefully sat
United Nations Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick to Reagans right.
One imagines the English version was more to her liking. It is

easy, however, to see the logic behind the dressed-down look for
the American edition. She spent the previous eight years battling
accusations that she was overly obsessed with clothes. See Nancy
Reagan, A First Ladys Style (p. 7).
Verdict: The English. We like posh Nancy!
STEPPING HIGH WITH GENE MARKEY

Thats the trouble with you American husbandsyoure
so kind to your wives that they lose interest in you.
Gene Markey and Myrna Loy, 1946 to 1950
--Gene Markey, Stepping High
Gene Markey Self-Portrait
Stepping High by Gene Markey
It is chronologically impossible that Gene Markey was referring to

himself when he wrote about this flaw with American husbands
in his 1929 novel Stepping High. He was just then becoming a
popular man about town in Hollywood and had not yet begun his
extraordinary marital career that saw him wed (and divorce) three
of filmdoms most popular actresses.
Myrna Loy and Gene Markey
Gene Markey and Hedy Lamarr , 1939 to 1940
In 1952, Markey forsook California for the greener pastures of

Kentucky. There, he remained happily married to the doyenne
of Calumet Farmsthe former Mrs. William Wrightfor the
remaining three decades of his life. In this catalogue, there is an
inscribed copy of Stepping High in which Markey has sketched an
original self-portrait (p. 6).
Gene Markey and Joan Bennett, 1932 to 1937
Hedy Lamarr and Gene Markey

Joan Bennett, Gene Markey, and Daughters
LORD CHAOS, THE LIFE OF SIR FRANCIS ROSE

[Francis Rose] is a man who causes such extraordinary
violence around him. His life story is a long succession
of suicides, killings, fatal accidents. In his wake he brings
chaos.
--Cecil Beaton
If I were to live again in the same circumstances I would
not change one minute of the poetryincomprehensible
as it isof my living.
--Sir Francis Rose
Francis, Age 3, Riding His
Bateau de Fleurs
Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein,

Portrait by Sir Francis Rose
Francis Rose had an unconventional childhood and one of extreme

wealth and privilege. He was born at the grand English estate
Moor Park, near Hertfordshire, and inherited his British baronetcy
while still a child. He was also of noble Spanish descent, and Rose
claims that on his behalf, his grandmother petitioned the Spanish
Sovereign for permission to revive the ancient family custom of
owning dwarves. As a teen, he fell under the spell of Jean Cocteau,
taking his lead in both artistic pursuit and amorous adventures.
LEnsemble by Sir Francis Rose (1938)
What Francis Rose lacked in constancy, he made up for in

originality. An artist and man about town, his name is most likely
to arise today in the context of his friend and patron Gertrude
Stein. She purchased four hundred of his canvases and promoted
him as the next Pablo Picasso. Critics disagreed, and Sir Franciss
work has fallen into obscurity. To some extent, justifiably so. Yet
Francis Roses artistic output was as erratic as his life. On occasion,
there was brilliance.
One of his most successful paintings was LEnsemble, an oil on
canvas mural that was exhibited in 1939 at the Petit Palais Muse
des Beaux Arts in Paris. It depicts those in his circle, a Whos Who of
literary and artistic Paris, including Jean Cocteau, Gertrude Stein
and Alice B. Toklas, Pavel Tchelitchev, Christian Brard, Serge Lifar,
and Natalie Barney. It was most recently exhibited at the England
& Co. Gallery in 2014.
Following a bizarre love affair with Nazi Ernst Rhm that ended
with Rhms execution in 1934, Sir Francis fled to the Far East,
traveling on a massive yacht with his own private zoo. He spent
three years happily touring Southeast Asia until world events again
intervened, becoming stranded in Peking as result of the Japanese
invasion. In preparation for his escape, he weaned himself off
opium and donated his menagerie to American and Japanese zoos.
By wars end, his fortune was depleted and he spent the remainder
of his life living off of friends such as Cecil Beaton. Saying Life,
published in 1961, was not the financial success he desperately
needed. However, it is one of the most quixotic memoirs of the 20th
Century, notable not for its accuracy but for its originality.
After Stein, Francis Roses most important connection was with his
frenemy Cecil Beaton. Yet, it is a mistake to define him based upon
those two associations. He lived extravagantly and audaciously.
Both Stein and Beaton seem bourgeois by comparison. Rose threw
caution (and his inherited fortune) to the wind. His life story,
Saying Life, The Memoirs of Sir Francis Rose (p. 12), is a remarkable
albeit fanciful book. Uncommon, the only task more challenging
than locating a copy is successfully fact-checking it.
Sir Francis Rose, Flanked by His Adopted Son Luis and Samuel Steward (1952)
A Tale of Two Trumans

Melanie Benjamins recently released novel The Swans of Fifth
Avenue opens with the oft-told but unreliable tale of how Truman
Capote met his best friends Bill and Babe Paley in January 1955.
Is it plausible the Paleys assumed it would be former President

Harry S. Truman, two years out of office, who would be boarding
the plane? We think not. Lets examine the evidence.
Truman Streckfus Persons Capote showed up one day on

William S. and Babe Paleys private plane, a tagalong guest of
their good friends Jennifer Jones and David O. Selznick. Bill
Paley, the chairman and founder of CBS, had gaped at the
slender young fawn with the big blue eyes and funny voice; I
thought you meant President Truman, hed hissed to David.
Truman Capote by William S. Paley
The Credibility of the Source
Truman Capote was a great stylist and raconteur. Effect mattered

far more to him than actual truth. That he said or wrote something
makes it no more or less likely that it was true. To friends he once
wrote, not that I mind inventing details, as you will see, which
might be the most honest statement he ever made.
Bill and Babe Paley at Round Hill by Slim Aarons
It is a marvelous tale, and if factual, a hilarious case of mistaken

identity. But, is it true? The Swans of Fifth Avenue is, after all, a novel.
It is a story of friendship gone awry: how Truman Capote met and
charmed the Beautiful People and then betrayed them nearly as
badly as he betrayed himself. Trumans friendship with Babe and
Bill Paley is its emotional center, but on its perimeter are others
in their circle, including Slim Keith, Pamela Harriman, Gloria
Guinness, Marella Agnelli, and C.Z. Guest. It is a delicious treat
and under the cloak of fictionalization, it delves into the psychology
of its subjects in a way that biography cannot.
This version of the story exists in nonfiction as well, such as in
Gerald Clarkes well-regarded biography Capote. Tru becomes
acquainted with producer David Selznick and his wife Jennifer
Jones on the set of John Hustons Beat the Devil for which Capote
wrote the screenplay. The Selznicks are invited to fly on the Paleys
private plane with them to Jamaica, and they inquire whether
Truman might come along. Bill Paley replies, It would be an
honor. Then, when Truman boards the plane, Paley whispers to
Selznick, I assumed you meant Harry Truman. Who is this?
President Harry S. Truman (Would he have brought his bowling ball along?)
A Tale of Two Trumans

The Improbability of the Supposed Invitee
In 1955, President Truman was not only outside of caf society,

he could barely afford a cup of coffee. He was certainly not the
prototype for presidents who came after him, all too willing to hitch
a ride on the private plane of any affable billionaire who makes the
offer. President Truman rejected all corporate proposals, believing
it would besmirch the office of the presidency. Instead, he returned
to Missouri to live in reduced circumstances. His only regular
income was a $112.56 per month army retirement (presidential
pensions had not yet been approved by Congress). Alas, Harry
Truman was so outside of the Paleys social world that he would
have made an awkward and unlikely guest, and both of the Paleys
would have known it.
Truman Capote Had Already Met the Paleys
Babes pal Slim Keith writes in her memoir Slim, Memories of a Rich
and Imperfect Life that she first met Capote in the early 1950s at a
party hosted by Diana Vreeland. It is possible that Babe met Truman
at the same party, or if not then most likely shortly thereafter. This
aligns with the recollections of Trumans publisher Bennett Cerf
who says that Truman met Mrs. Paley through friends and Babe
immediately invited him somewhere they were going.
Slim Keith and Truman Capote

by Leland Hayward
Slim, Memories of a
Rich and Imperpect Life
This Set Piece Was Recurring Theme for Capote
Truman Capote by Slim Aarons
The Absence of Follow-Up Questions
After David Selznick inquires whether Truman might accompany

them, it is difficult to imagine that Paley would have simply left it
at that without further comment or question. For starters, he might
have queried, Will Mrs. Truman be coming along as well? And,
if the answer was affirmative, imagine the trs chic Babe lounging
poolside for a week with Trumans salt-of-the-earth wife Bess. Of
course, kind and well-mannered Babe would have worked tirelessly
to make it all seem perfectly natural should she have found herself
in that position (Slim Keith or Gloria Guinness, not so much).
According to Capote, John F. Kennedy also confused the two

Trumans. In a November 24, 1960 letter to Alvin and Marie Dewey,
Capote writes, Sent a congratulatory telegram to the Kennedys,
and recvd. a reply from Jackie who said that at first they thought
it was from Harry Truman until they realized a) Harry wasnt in
Switzerland, and B) wouldnt have signed it love and hugs. Ha! It
seems as if the mistaken identity gambit was a set piece to be edited
and re-edited as Capote saw fit.
Bill Paley Already Knew President Truman
As Sally Bedell Smith details in her biography In All His Glory, The
Life of William S. Paley, Paleys lieutenant at CBS Frank Stanton
arranged a meeting between President Truman and Bill Paley five
years earlier in 1950. It resulted in Paleys appointment to head the
Presidents Materials Policy Commission in which he took a sixmonth leave of absence from CBS that ultimately stretched into
eighteen. President Truman would not have been a stranger to him.
Babe Paley at Round Hill
Highlights
ANIMAL ILLUSTRATION. Aldin, Cecil. Farm Babies. Second Edition. 1911. Hardcover with pictorial front
cover (no dust jacket). It is very good minus condition. There is a minor tear to the upper spine, bumped
corners, minor scratching, and light foxing (but only to text pages, not the color plates).
This childrens book from England, first published in 1909, never saw an American edition. It is a gem: one of
those books that are rarely intact due to its marvelous twenty-four color plates suitable for framing (but please
dont; most copies have suffered this fate already). The book follows the adventures of a curious duckling as he
explores a farm interacting with puppies, pigs, turkeys, cows, etc., mostly babes like himself. So charming.
$350.00
ART COLLECTION. [Signed Presentation from Peggy Guggenheim to Claire Falkenstein] Calas, Nicolas
and Elena. The Peggy Guggenheim Collection of Modern Art. European Edition. 1967. Book is in very good
condition; dust jacket is in good plus conditionjacket shows tears and moderate wear. Book is warmly
inscribed on the title page, With love to Claire in her other Venice paradise, Peggy, Aug 1969.
This impressive folio-sized book is a catalogue raisonn of the art collection that Peggy Guggenheim housed in
her Venetian palazzo. Each of the one hundred eighty-nine items is depicted in a full-page plate, with forty in
full color. One of the color plates#143depicts Gate to the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, by Claire Falkenstein,
the artist to whom this copy is signed. Falkensteins other Venice paradise was her studio in Venice, California.
$625.00
BROOKE ASTOR. [Signed Presentation to Albert Hadley] Astor, Brooke. Patchwork Child, Early Memories.
First Edition. 1962. Book and dust jacket are both in very good conditionjacket shows repaired edge tears.
Book is inscribed on the flyleaf, To Albert Hadley, with all good wishes, Brooke Astor, November 7, 1962.
What shaped the character of this society grand dame and philanthropist? The answer lies in this fascinating
book, in which Astor recalls her turn-of-century childhood, as the daughter of a naval officer stationed in
[then] Imperial China, Hawaii, Panama, and Washington, D.C. It stimulated a sense of wonder and curiosity
that burned bright for an entire century. This is a nice association copy: Albert Hadley designed the red lacquer
library in Brookes Astor Park Avenue apartment, one of the most photographed rooms in New York.
$325.00
BROOKE ASTOR. [Signed Presentation to Henry and Nancy Kissinger] Astor, Brooke. Footprints, An
Autobiography. First Edition. 1980. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition. Book is inscribed on
the flyleaf, For Henry and Nancy, with gratitude for what they stand for, affectionately, Brooke, July 3, 1980.
Before her death in 2007, Mrs. Astor was one of the few still living to have remembered the fall of Imperial
Russia and have a father-in-law perish aboard the Titanic. Her significance to history is she was one of two Mrs.
Astors who presided over New Yorks social order. The first worried about how to squeeze four hundred guests
into her ballroom. This Mrs. Astor was concerned with how to distribute two hundred million dollars to New
York charities. Here, she recounts her life story with equal parts warmth, humor, and noblesse oblige.
$450.00
BROOKE ASTOR. [Third Party Inscription by Jerome Zerbe; Possible Zerbe Portrait Tipped In] Astor,
Brooke. Footprints, An Autobiography. First Edition. 1980. Book and dust jacket are both in very good
condition. It is signed on the flyleaf, Jerome Zerbe, as if he were the author. The book also contains a threepage inscription by Zerbe in which he explains his connection to Mrs. Astor, the lawsuit Vincents half-brother
brought against the Astor estate and how Brooke became the third Mrs. Astor. Tipped in is a b & w snapshot of
Astor that was surely taken by Zerbe himself. Visit our website to read the inscription in its entirety.
With its lengthy inscription from the famous society photographer Jerome Zerbe, this is a most unique copy of
the New York grand dames autobiography. Written when she was sixty (which proved to be early middle age).
$225.00
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD. [Signed Presentation] Isherwood, Christopher. Prater Violet. Second
Printing. 1945. Book and dust jacket are both in very good minus conditionjacket shows minor soiling, light
chipping, and minor tears. This copy was once property of the U.S. Naval Hospital with its bookstamp, but its
most recent owner was Oscar Janiger, the famed Los Angeles psychiatrist who administered LSD therapy to
A-List Hollywood personalities like Cary Grant, and also Christopher Isherwood He has inscribed this copy to
Janiger and his wife, For Oscar & Vijali, with love from Chris, September 19, 1982.
This semi-autobiographical novel takes place on a film set just prior to World War II and involves a screenwriters
attempts to assist a brilliant Austrian director, a war refugee, make a commercially successful film.
$225.00
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Highlights
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD. [Signed by Christopher Isherwood, et al.] Isherwood, Christopher. Vedanta
for Modern Man. First Edition. 1951. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition. Signed by Swami
Prabhavananda, Gerald Heard, Aldous Huxley, Christopher Isherwood, and John van Druten.
Eastern Mysticism made its first appearance in the United States with Emerson and Thoreau, but like so
many cultural trends, it required a push from Hollywood to take root. Isherwood was an early proponent. He
practiced Vedanta, a Hindu-based spirituality emphasizing self-actualization and the unity of all religions. He
and other California-based practitioners sought to define it for the West in this fascinating and lovely book.
With the signatures of five contributors, an important historical document.
$575.00
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD. [Signed by Don Bachardy] Bucknell, Katherine (ed.). Christopher Isherwood
Diaries, Volume One, 1939-1960. First Edition. 1996. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition.
Book is signed by Bachardy, Isherwoods longtime partner and literary executor, To Shawn, It was all my idea
to publish this book, Don Bachardy, 5 March 97.
These diaries, controversially printed verbatim, chronicle the Goodbe to Berlin authors early expatraite years
in Los Angeles. He was invited everywhere, and this witty and at times scathing diary covers those the New
York Times referred to as the famous, the clever, the neurotic, the unhappy, and the sinful. With a thirty-page
glossary of names, this book is a Whos Who of midcentury Los Angeles, New York, and London.
$125.00
DANCE. [Signed by Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn] Nureyev, Rudolph. Nureyev, An Autobiography.
First American Edition. 1963. Book is in very good condition; dust jacket is in good plus conditionjacket
shows light chipping, minor tears, fraying, and rubbing. Book is signed Margot Fonteyn Arias on the half title
page and Rudolph Nureyev on the page opposite the title page. Photographs by Richard Avedon and others.
Rudolf Nureyev said of Margot Fonteyn, We danced with one body, one soul. Margot is all I ever had, only her.
She was more self-deprecatory, quipping, Rudolf? I was just his London nanny. The truth is they forged one
of the most extraordinary partnerships in the history of the ballet, begun when she was at the age when most
dancers retire and he a recent Russian defector. It is uncommon to come across a book signed by both.
$525.00
THE DEBUTANTE. Herford, Oliver. The Debs Dictionary. First American Edition. 1931. Book is in very good
condition; dust jacket is in very good minus conditionjacket shows rubbing, minor fraying, and small edge
tears. Illustrations also by the author.
This book encapsulates all the ideas, activities, and follies of a debutante season into a droll A to Z glossary. The
words and definitions run the gamut from satirical to absurd with subtle references to practices that would not
become acceptable for publication until the sexual revolution thirty years hence. There is no preamblejust
definitionsbut there are many b & w illustrations interspersed.
$175.00
THE DEBUTANTE. Post, Emily. How to BehaveThough a Debutante. First Edition. 1928. Hardcover in
pictorial boards (no dust jacket). It is in good plus conditionboards show mild soiling and bumped corners.
Illustrated by John Held, Jr.
The foremost arbiter of manners, Emily Post, first published this book in serial form in Vanity Fair under the
anonymous pen name Muriel. A satire on the unseemly behavior of the flapper generation, its intentional
vulgarity was mistaken for truth. The release of the story in book form revealed Muriels true identity. Borrowing
from both Anita Looss Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and her own Etiquette: The Blue Book of Social Usage, Post (as
Muriel) belittles many of her own rules with a wink and a nod.
$225.00
EX LIBRIS GEORGE CUKOR. [Signed Presentation to George Cukor] Bowers, Ronald. The Selznick Players.
First Edition. 1976. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition. Book is inscribed, For George Cukor,
with my grateful thanks and good wishes, Ronald Bowers 76. Includes Cukors bookplate.
This fully illustrated book (medium coffee table) covers Selznicks career as one of Hollywoods first and most
important independent producers. As this book shows, many Hollywood films that withstood the test of time
have the Selznick name on them. This is a marvelous association copy of an excellent book. Cukor makes his
first appearance in the authors acknowledgements section and continues to appear throughout, including the
sections on Bill of Divorcement and Gone with the Wind (from which he was famously fired).
$275.00
Highlights
EX LIBRIS GEORGE CUKOR. [Signed Presentation to George Cukor] Wolfe, Elsie de. Recipes for Successful
Dining. First Edition. 1934. Book is in very good minus conditioncovers show rubbing and very light
staining. Book is warmly inscribed George Cukor. Yesterday! Today!! Tomorrow!!! A friend! Elsie de Wolfe
Mendl, Beverly Hills, March 3rd 1941. Cukors famous Paul Landacre-designed bookplate is attached the front
endpaper.
With the warm greeting to film director George Cukor, this is a one-of-a-kind copy of Elsie de Wolfes classic
cookbook. The inscription dates to the World War II era when the indomitable decorator was a war refugee in
California, taking Hollywood by storm and winning bets at gin rummy with Cukor as her partner.
$475.00
EX LIBRIS GEORGE CUKOR. [George Cukor Bookplate] Rogers, Will (intro.). Fashions in Foods in Beverly
Hills. Second Edition. 1930. Book is in very good condition. George Cukors famous Paul Landacre-designed
bookplate is attached to the flyleaf.
George Cukor was one of Hollywoods great hosts, and he lived stones throw from Beverly Hills, so it is no
surprise its womens club cookbook would have been in his library. It includes signature dishes from many of
his friends, including Joan Crawford, Constance Bennett, Mary Pickford, Dolores Del Rio, Douglas Fairbanks,
Ramon Novarro, and Janet Gaynor. A link between traditional American food and California Cuisine, it is also
one of the first cookbooks to contain the Mexican and Chinese dishes that were to become American staples.
$225.00
FASHION/BIOGRAPHY. Poiret, Paul. King of Fashion, The Autobiography of Paul Poiret. First American
Edition. 1931. Book and dust jacket are both in very good minus conditionflyleaf shows minor smudging, and
jacket shows minor repaired tears and fraying.
Paul Poiret was not only a fashion designer; he was a man of big ideas. In this hefty autobiography, he recalls the
early decades of the 20th Century in which his innovations made him the ruler of Paris fashion and the artistic
and cultural reasons why that was so. His reign had ended by the time of this book, and he writes movingly and
with approval about the ephemeral nature of fashion, and how the victory of one revolution carries within it the
spark that will lead to its demise.
$175.00
FASHION/SIGNED. [Signed] Balmain, Pierre. My Years and Seasons. First Edition. 1964. Book and dust
jacket are both in very good conditionjacket shows a tiny tear, and spine is slightly discolored. Book is signed
in elegant script on the flyleaf, With best wishes, Pierre Balmain.
This uncommon memoir by the Parisian couturier has been included in previous catalogues and generated
much interest. This, however, is the first signed copy we have seen. Balmain discusses his apprenticeship with
Edward Molyneux, his work alongside Christian Dior (at Lucien Lelong), the mannequins (models) who were
just then becoming bold-faced names themselves, and the devoted international clients who adored designs.
$375.00
FASHION/SIGNED. [Presentation to Diana Vreeland] Beaton, Cecil. The Glass of Fashion. First English
Edition. 1954. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition. It is signed, To Diana & Reed, Love from
Cecil. Vreeland has written her name and address on the front endpaper, Diana D. Vreeland, 400 Park Ave.,
N.Y. 22. Also, a section of the book is about Vreeland, and her name and pages are circled in the books index.
There is no more knowledgeable guide to 20th Century fashion than Beaton, and in this witty, articulate book,
he takes the reader on a whirlwind tour. He categorizes the fashion hierarchy into three castesfollowers,
leaders, and those who, because of their extraordinary taste, cannot help but be fashionable. This book is mostly
about this latter categoryincluding Diana Vreeland to whom this copy is signed. What a great copy!
$1,850.00
FASHION/SIGNED [Signed by Manolo Blahnik] McDowell, Colin. Manolo Blahnik. First Edition. 2000.
Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition. Book is boldly signed Manolo Blahnik in pink felt
marker on the half title page.
Manolo Blahnik once said, About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the
rest are bread-and-butter designs. This authorized monograph features all of the above but with emphasis on
the fantasy. It includes colorful fashion illustration of the shoes, as well as photographic images. The text delves
beyond the footwear and into the roots and inspirations of their creator.
$275.00
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FASHION/SIGNED. [Signed] Schiaparelli, Elsa. Shocking Life. First American Edition. 1954. Book is in very
good condition; dust jacket is in good plus conditionjacket shows taped repairs, a small chip to the upper
spine, and fraying. This copy is inscribed to Jane and Hillen Koetter, To Jane + Helly with much love, Schiap.
Ever wonder what becomes of a precocious child like Kay Thompsons Eloise? Well, sometimes she becomes one
of the most whimsical, creative, and celebrated designers of the century. In this idiosyncratic memoir, Schiap
recalls her childhood in Rome, the difficult marriage that led to her fabulous career, and her collaborations
with artists like Christian Brard, Jean Cocteau, and Salvador Dali. Includes an appendix titled, The Twelve
Commandments for Women. [Though God was able to make do with ten, Schiap one-upped him by two.]
$750.00
FICTION/CAMP. [Signed] Susann, Jacqueline. The Valley of the Dolls. Second Printing. 1966. Book and dust
jacket are both in good plus conditionthere is a minor seam tear, and jacket shows edgewear and minor
repaired tears. It is signed Jacqueline Susann on the flyleaf.
No major publisher was interested in this potboiler about three single women whose quests for fame and
happiness are derailed by addiction and heartbreak. They must have regretted their decisions, because this
became one of the best-selling books of the 1960s. Susann was a master of publicity and popular culture, much
like her uptown neighbor Andy Warhol. He predicted everyone in the future would be famous for fifteen
minutes. Her codicil, as implied in this novel, is they will then spend the next fifteen in rehab.
$450.00
FICTION/CAMP. Campbell, Lady Colin. Empress Bianca. First Edition. 2005. Book and dust jacket are both
in very good condition.
Nothing is more intriguing than a book pulled from the shelves as result of a lawsuit, which is the case here.
Litigation initiated by Lily Safra, who apparently saw some of herself in the heroine of this story, sent most
copies to the incinerator, and the few survivors were priced accordingly. The book is a barely disguised roman
clef of international society, and the criminal acts that sometimes occur there. A sanitized softcover version
was later printed in the United States, but only this scarce original edition contains the material that provoked
Mrs. Safra to contact her lawyers.
$275.00
FICTION/SIGNED. [Two Copies, Both Signed to Kim Basinger] Ellroy, James. American Tabloid. Sixth
Printings. 1995. Books and dust jackets are both in very good condition. Both contain the ownership signature
of Kim Basinger. The first copy is inscribed, Blood rage; death cage; thrill kill; grace fill; James Ellroy. The
second copy includes an original drawing of Ellroys dog with the cartoon caption Fear my Passion!
When James Ellroy visited Kim Basinger on the set of the movie adaptation of his book L.A. Confidential, the
film for which she would win an Academy Award, he presented her with a signed copy of American Tabloid, his
novel about the Kennedy assassination. Within minutes, he returned with a second copy, explaining she also
needed one signed by his dog, Barko, thus explaining the drawing in it.
$350.00
FICTION/SIGNED. [Signed Presentation to Kim Basinger of Book in Which She Starred in the Film
Adaptation] Irving, John. A Widow for One Year. Fifth Printing. 1998. Book and dust jacket are both in very
good condition. Book is inscribed on the title page, For Kim, with my admiration and appreciation, and my
best wishes for the film, John Irving. On that same page is Kim Basingers ownership signature.
The first section of this three-part novel was filmed as The Door in the Floor, starring Kim Basinger to whom
this copy is inscribed. The New York Times praised Basingers performance in the film and declared it surely
the best movie yet made from Mr. Irvings fiction. Considering Irving also wrote The World According to Garp,
that is high praise, indeed.
$275.00
FICTION/SIGNED. [Signed] Sackville-West, V. All Passion Spent. First American Edition. 1933. Book is in
very good minus condition; dust jacket is in very good conditionpurple cloth boards show fading to the spine,
and jacket flaps are slightly trimmed. Book is signed V. Sackville-West on the flyleaf.
V. Sackville-West created one of her most memorable characters in the truly noble Lady Slane, a recently
widowed wife of an English earl and Viceroy of India. She played the part of dutiful wife and mother for the
better part of a century, not because society demanded it, but out of love for her ambitious and charming
husband. His death frees her to correct her destiny and live the simple life of an artist, emancipated from her
status-oriented children who never truly knew their mother and never will. Lovely.
$600.00
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FOOD/SIGNED. [Signed] Blanch, Lesley. Round the World in Eighty Dishes. First Edition. 1956. Book and
dust jacket are both in very good condition. It is inscribed, For Dr. and Mrs. John Aldes, Elizabeths friend,
whom the author hopes will enjoy this kind of trip around the world. Lesley Blanch Gary, HollywoodDec. 57.
Tastemakers today who write cookbooks are called domestic goddesses. Though Lesley Blanch, the author of
The Wilder Shores of Love, often approached the divine, there was nothing domestic about her. Deeply romantic,
she traveled the world, delighting in the variety of flavors and smells, no matter how exotic or remote. Here she
has produced a cookbook as travelogue, with conversational-style recipes that make up for in dramatic flair
what they lack in specificity. The charming pen & ink illustrations are also by Blanch.
$175.00
FOOD/SIGNED. [Signed Presentation to Kim Basinger and Alec Baldwin] McCartney, Linda. Linda
McCartneys Home Cooking. Fourth Printing. 1990. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition.
Book is inscribed on the title page, For Kim + Alex, Love Linda McCartney. In the inscription, McCartney
has drawn a fish and than crossed it out with an x. On that same page is Kim Basingers ownership signature.
What a great copy of this classic cookbook, which promotes a sensible diet as well as vegetarianism. It is signed
by one of the most iconic animal rights activists to two of Hollywoods most celebrated vegetarians (then
married to each other). The drawing suggests a conversation between them about whether fish belong in a
vegetarian diet.
$275.00
GARDEN. [Signed] Princess Grace of Monaco. My Book of Flowers. First English Edition. 1980. Book and dust
jacket are both in very good condition. Book is inscribed, To Julian Crosby, Best wishes, Grace de Monaco.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis edited the American edition of her friend Princess Graces book. This English
edition, however, is better in terms of size and quality. It was inspired by a sold-out exhibition of pressed
flower collages the Princess had shown in a Paris gallery. The book includes examples of the collages as well as
other aspects Graces fascination with botanicals, including photographs of the royal gardens in Monaco. Her
husbands high expectations of decorum fitting a princess meant that Graces ability to promote the book was
limited. As such, signed copies are uncommon.
$1,250.00
GARDEN. Latham, Charles. Gardens Old and New. The Country House & Its Garden Environment. Three
Volume Set. First Editions. 1905-1916. Hardcovers in good plus condition. One of the volumes has been
rebound in blue, but the other two are in cloth boards with embossed Art Nouveau decorations and titles. All
show moderate wear with minor stains and light fraying, but the interior pages are in great shape.
Weighing in at nearly twenty pounds and 10 x 15 inches, this is an exhaustive and fully illustrated monograph
on the English country house and its gardens (mostly exteriors). In total there are about fourteen hundred
photographs and great many homes and gardens (a good portion, now demolished). It is a treasure trove of
information and imaginationa magnificent resource.
$750.00
HOLLYWOOD/SIGNED. [Signed] Bacall, Lauren. By Myself. Fourth Printing. 1979. Book and dust jacket are
both in very good condition. Inscribed to a fellow actress in the Robert Altman film Health. The inscription
reads, For Georgann [Johnson]Much love in healthBetty. St. Petes Beach.
Might Lauren Bacall be the only person to have called both the West Hollywoods Garden of Allah and the
Upper West Sides the Dakota home? That is but one facet of the extraordinary life that Bacall relates (without
benefit of ghostwriter) in this autobiography that takes her from New York to Los Angeles and back again, as
she progresses from Harpers Bazaar cover girl to Hollywood royalty (as Mrs. Humphrey Bogart), and then onto
Broadway acclaim (winning a Tony for her portrayal of Margo Channing in Applause).
$125.00
HOLLYWOOD/SIGNED. [Signed] Havilland, Olivia de. Every Frenchman Has One. First Edition. 1962. Book
is in very good condition; dust jacket is in very good minus conditionincludes previous owners bookstamp
and jacket shows edgewear and a small tear to the back cover. Book is signed Olivia de Havilland.
Film legend Olivia de Havilland said of the Hollywood rat race, Famous people feel that they must perpetually
be on the crest of the wave, not realizing that it is against all the rules of life. You cant be on top all the time,
it isnt natural. What better way to remove oneself from the wave than to retire to Paris, (which she did in the
1950s by marrying the editor of Paris Match Pierre Galante)? In this fun and breezy memoir comparing and
contrasting Paris and Hollywood, neither city goes unscathed.
$275.00
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HOLLYWOOD/SIGNED. [Signed Presentation to Jimmy Stewart] Gabor, Zsa Zsa. How to Catch a Man.
First Edition. 1970. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition. Book is inscribed on the flyleaf, to
Darling good, bad, lusty[?], gorgeous Jimmy, with much love, Zsa Zsa.
If practice counts, this actress is one of the better sources for how to acquire a husband. She had nearly as many
of them (nine) as film roles. And, one of her fiancs was the legendary lover Porfirio Rubirosa. Though one might
quibble with her talent for holding on to men, this book is full of wit and Hollywood glamour and, occasionally,
even sensible advice. She counsels that to enjoy oneself, take the honeymoon before the marriage. She also
fractures Emily Post, recommending that if an engagement is broken, give back the ring, but keep the stone.
$275.00
LITERARY/APHORISM. Giles, Herbert A. (transl.) Quips from a Chinese Jest Book. First Edition. 1925.
Hardcover in pictorial boards (no dust jacket). It is in very good minus conditionbook shows bumped corners
and moderate shelfwear. Previous owner has written B. Roberts, Hong Kong in the upper corner of the flyleaf.
Herbert Giles was at the forefront of late 19th and early 20th Century Chinese studies. He was one of the first
professors at Cambridge to teach Chinese languages, and he was later stationed as a diplomat in China. He wrote
works on Confucius and Lao Tzu, and he modified the Romanization system of Mandarin Chinese. This book is
one of his more accessible and lovely. Its intent was to showcase the wit and humour of the Chinese and shed
light on their doings, sayings, and thoughts.
$225.00
INDIA. [Signed] Devi, Gayatri. A Princess Remembers, The Memoirs of the Maharani of Jaipur. Softcover
Edition. 1985. Book is in very good condition. It is inscribed on the flyleaf by the Maharani of Jaipur, Pamela,
with best wishes, Gayatri Devi, Jaipur, 10th Sept. 86.
This is the memoir of the glamorous Cooch Behar princess, the adored daughter in a family of unimaginable
privilege in an opulent palace staffed with five hundred servants. And, incredibly she married up, becoming the
third wife of the Maharaja of Jaipur. Named one of the worlds most beautiful women by Vogue, the Maharani
was equally at home in London or Paris as in her native country, and her globetrotting memoirs cover all three.
This is a softcover version, but not a paperback, and the cover art is actually uperior to the hardcover editions.
$275.00
INDIA. [Third Party Gift Inscription by Lady Edwina Mountbatten] Lady Hartog. India in Outline. First
Edition. 1944. Book is in very good condition. Book inscribed on the flyleaf, With best wishes, Edwina
Mountbatten, Jul 1944.
In the 1930s, a fortune-teller told Lady Edwina Mountbatten, One day you will be sitting on a throne, not an
ordinary throne but a real throne nonetheless. Perhaps Lady Mountbatten had this in mind when she inscribed
this book about India in 1944, two years prior to becoming its final Vicereine. The Spectator praised it as a
marvel of compression, proclaiming the book contained an extraordinary amount of information without ever
becoming dull or bewildering. A great association copy.
$250.00
ORIGINAL ARTWORK. [Signed, Original Drawing] Markey, Gene. Stepping High. First Edition. 1929.
Book is in very good minus condition; dust jacket is in good plus conditionjacket shows fraying and small
edge tears. Book is inscribed, For Miss Bush, from her friend Gene Markey. Below his signature, Markey has
sketched a portrait of himself in color.
Novelist and screenwriter Gene Markey might not have been the most handsome man in Hollywood, but,
romantically, he was one of its great success stories. He wed and divorced three glamorous actressesJoan
Bennett, Hedy Lamarr, and Myrna Loy. Loy said of him, He could make a scrubwoman think she was a queen.
This jazz age novel concerns showbiz types attempting to make it in Long Island society.
$475.00
ORIGINAL ARTWORK. [Signed Presentation, Original Drawing Laid In] Susann, Jacqueline. Every Night,
Josephine. First Edition. 1963. Book is in very good condition; dust jacket is in good plus conditionjacket
shows a repaired tear and fraying. This copy is warmly inscribed, To Charlie Browns mommy & daddyLove,
Josephine & her mommy & daddy, Jacqueline Susan, 5/5/64. Laid in is a drawing of Josephine and Charlie
Brown on a half sheet of typewriter paper in blue ink, signed Jacqueline Susann.
This book preceded Susans bestselling Valley of the Dolls by several years. It is the lighthearted memoir of the
glamorous life she shared with her poodle Josephine in a fashionable high-rise apartment overlooking Central
Park.
$650.00
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ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH. Zerbe, Jerome. Pair of Duke and Duchess of Windsor Photographs: The
Duchess of Windsor and The Windsors Moulin at Gif. Shot/Printed 1961. Approximately 10 x 8 inches.
Semi-gloss double weight fiber silver gelatin. Unframed. Both are titled and signed in ink below the image, with
stamp and notations on recto.
There are many ubiquitous images of the Duchess of Windsor. This portrait by the noted society lensman is not
one of them. It is not even in his monograph, Happy Times. As such, this is an opportunity to display something
originalnot an easy feat when it comes to the Duchess whose visage frequently appears in the media even
today. Accompanying it is an image of the Windsors country home The Mill (Le Moulin de la Tuilerie).
$675.00
PHOTOGRAPHY/SIGNED. [Signed Presentation] Etting, Gloria Braggiotti. By the Way. First Edition. 1993.
Softcover in very good conditionthere is a mild crease to the lower front cover. Book is warmly inscribed on
the title page, To Ashton [Hawkins] who fascinates me, Love, Gloria.
Gloria Braggiotti Etting might have never been a household name, but that does not mean household names
were unfamiliar with her. She grew up in Boston with the Cushing sisters and remained their lifelong friend.
She and her husband the artist Emlen Etting gave magnificent parties in their Rittenhouse Square townhouse,
but they were just as likely to be found abroad interacting with a fascinating assortment of literary, artistic, and
social personalities. This book of photographs includes candid snapshot of their glittering set.
$225.00
PHOTOGRAPHY/SIGNED. [Signed Presentation to Kenneth] Vreeland, Diana. Allure. First Edition. 1980.
Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition. This copy is inscribed in Vreelands typical green pen,
For Kenneth with affectionate best wishes + a million thanks for all your generosity, Diana Vreeland, 1981.
We prefer this magnificent, folio-size first version of Allure to the 2002 dwarf version that was issued without a
dust jacket. This edition, published while Vreeland was very much alive, is as grand as she was. In it, she curates
a collection of photographs that meet her elusive classification of allure, which she defines and then expands
upon throughout the book. Includes photographs by Beaton, Horst, Avedon, et al. How great that it is signed
to Kenneth who styled the hair of some of the women depicted in the book (Marilyn Monroe, for example).
$1,250.00
THE REAGANS. [Signed Presentation by Nancy Reagan to David Jones] Colacello, Bob. Nancy Reagan,
A First Ladys Style. First Edition. 2007. Hardcover with pictorial pastedown. Book is in very good minus
conditionthere is a small stain to the front cover. It is inscribed to Mrs. Reagans close friend and longtime
florist, To David, my dear Nancyite, who always makes everything look so beautiful, with so many thanks,
Nancy. Laid in is a printed card reading To: David Jones, With the compliments of Mrs. Ronald Reagan.
Just as important as being at the right place at the right time is being correctly attired while there. Nancy
Reagan managed both. This image-filled book was the catalogue for a Reagan Library exhibition and not widely
distributed. The recipient of this copy was David Jones was Mrs. Reagans longtime florist and devoted friend.
$675.00
THE REAGANS. [Signed Presentation to David Jones] Wilber, Del Quentin. Rawhide Down, The Near
Assassination of Ronald Reagan. First Edition. 2011. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition.
This copy is warmly inscribed to the Reagans close friend and first florist David Jones who designed the
arrangements for their state dinners: David, Great meeting you over dinner w/ Mrs. Reagan! Best wishes, Del
Wilber, 4-9-11. Laid in is a promotional post card for the book with a message to Jones from Wilber. The book
is also signed by Jerry Parr, the secret service agent credited with saving President Reagans life on the day of the
attempted assassination: Jerry Parr w/ warm personal regards to David.
This is a most unique copy of a gripping account on the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan.
$325.00
THE REAGANS. [Signed Presentation to David Jones by Nancy Reagan] Benson, Harry. The President
& Mrs. Reagan, An American Love Story. First Edition. 2003. Book and dust jacket are both in very good
condition. Book is inscribed, To my dear David [Jones], with much love and many fond memories, Nancy.
Whatever ones politics, it must be admitted that Ronald and Nancy Reagan were more than a great love story;
they were a perfect partnership. He could never have ever progressed from Hollywood actor to leader of the
free world absent her constant attention to detail. Harry Benson began covering their story during his run for
California governor and continued doing so for the next four decades. The book reveals a fun-loving, relaxed
side of her personality rarely captured by other photographers.
$375.00
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SOCIAL COMMENTARY. Crowninshield, Francis W. Manners for the Metropolis, An Entrance Key to the
Fantastic Life of the 400. First Edition. 1908. Book is in very good minus conditioncovers show minor wear,
some foxing, and previous owners name is written on the flyleaf. Decorations by Louis Fancher.
No magazine did more to popularize caf society than did Frank Crowninshields Vanity Fair. It is therefore
appropriate that a half decade before assuming its helm, he penned this sardonic primer that paved its way.
The premise is that behavior once considered boorish now made one a Bright Young Thing. The book both
edifies and amuses, with advice on how to behave in the age of the telephone, womens rights, motorcars, and
millionaires. Uncommon.
$275.00
SOCIAL COMMENTARY. John, Duke of Bedford. The Duke of Bedfords Book of Snobs. First American
Edition. 1965. Book and dust jacket are both in very good conditionjacket shows just a trace of fraying.
Written in collaboration with George Mikes. Illustrations by Nicolas Bentley.
Anyone who cannot make it through this witty and interesting book is truly a non-reader. John, Thirteenth
Duke of Bedford, was an iconoclast who had a birds eye view of post-World War II English society. In this book,
he hilariously lampoons the poseurs, climbers, and snobs who are indigenous to that world, while at the same
time providing extremely useful advice on how to become a part of it. The fun begins with the divine cover
illustration and does not end until the final page. Highly recommend.
$125.00
SOCIAL COMMENTARY. Jullian, Philippe (ed.). The Snob Spotters Guide. First Edition. 1958. Book is in
very good minus condition; dust jacket is in good conditionpages are free of foxing, but do have scent of
mildew; jacket shows a moderate chip to the front cover, a large chip to the back cover, and a repaired tear.
What is snobbery? This A to Z book attempts to define it in its many permutations, with contributions from a
rogues gallery of reputed snobs, including Cecil Beaton, Lord Kinross, Violent Trefusis, and Loelia, Duchess
of Westminster. The definition varies depending on the contributor, but in general, the gist is that snobbery
resembles light. It is both particle and wave, and it is everywhere. The text is clever and amusing, and Jullians
frequent illustrations are divine. Scarce.
$150.00
SOCIAL COMMENTARY. [Signed] Zerbe, Jerome. The Art of Social Climbing. First Edition. 1965. Book is in
very good condition; dust jacket is in good plus conditionjacket shows soiling, minor tears, and rubbing. It is
price-clipped. Book is boldly signed Jerome Zerbe on the flyleaf.
Based upon this humorous but helpful book, Jerome Zerbe did more than take photographs while stationed
at his El Morocco banquette. He also made shrewd observations. It is breezy social discourse, but fascinating.
Zerbe muses that the main obstacle for the nouveaux riches is the old poor. He classifies caf society wannabes
as Nescaf. A final treat is an appendix listing his version of Mrs. Astors Four Hundred, circa 1965.
$225.00
SOCIAL HISTORY/SIGNED. [Signed] Bernier, Rosamond. Some of My Lives, A Scrapbook Memoir. First
Edition. 2011. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition. Book is inscribed For Carol Ann Rogers,
Rosamond Bernier on the title page.
If Pablo Picasso had been alive to attend the 1975 marriage of Rosamond Bernier to New York Times art
critic, he could have sat on either side of the aisle. He had deep connections to both (see: Richardsons The
Sorcerers Apprentice). However, the great Cubist painter is only one of many figures from the worlds of the art,
music, fashion, and design that make appearances in this book of a thousand anecdotes. Others include Aaron
Copland, Georges Braque, Fernand Lger, Chanel, Philip Johnson, and Pauline de Rothschild.
$75.00
SOCIAL HISTORY/SIGNED. [Signed] Lehr, Elizabeth Drexel. King Lehr and the Gilded Age. Third Printing.
1935. Book is in very good condition; dust jacket is in good conditionjacket shows chipping but presents well
due to facsimile underlay. It is signed To *** with best regards from the author, Elizabeth Drexel Lehr.
Nearly every aspect of this extraordinary tale suggests Edith Whartonits refinement, the Gilded Age backdrop,
and especially the plot. Yet there is one major difference. This story is entirely true and covers a scandalous
subject matter that even Wharton never dared touch. Elizabeth Drexel recounts her difficult marriage to the
charming crown prince of New York society Harry Lehr, with frequent reference to the journals she discovered
after his death and the insight they added.
$225.00
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SOCIAL HISTORY/SIGNED. [Signed] Mellon, Paul. Reflections in a Silver Spoon, A Memoir. First Edition.
1991. Book and dust jacket are both in very good minus conditionfront hinge has split but all pages intact,
and jacket shows a repaired tear to the back flap. Book is signed Paul Mellon on the title page. Previous owners
name written inMillicent W. West, P.O.B. 236, Upperville, VA 20185.
The tongue-in-cheek title of this memoir shows Paul Mellon did not take himself or his legacy too seriously. As
the billionaire son of legendary financier Andrew Mellon, he had the luxury to pursue his passions, which, as
he relates here, he did with great relish. There was not a major promotional tour; signed copies are uncommon.
The previous owner of this copy was connected to Mellons wife Bunny via the Virginia Garden Association.
$375.00
SOCIAL HISTORY/SIGNED. [Signed by Jacqueline Kennedy] Thayer, Mary Van Rensselaer. Jacqueline
Bouvier Kennedy, The Story of the First Lady Illustrated with Family Pictures. First Edition. 1961. Book and dust
jacket are both in very good condition. Inscribed, For Mary E. Oates, With best wishes, Jacqueline Kennedy.
Jacqueline Onassis became extraordinarily press shy later in life. In fact, her first authorized biographythis
bookwas also her last. It was published the year JFK became President. The author was a journalist friend of
Jacquelines mother, Janet Auchincloss. It is a collection of anecdotes and stories, mixed in with beautiful, fullpage photogravure plates. There are no scandals here, but the book does offer a beguiling portrait of a young
Jackie, very clever, very artistic, and full of the devil.
$875.00
THE VANDERBILTS. [Signed Presentation to Kenneth] Goodman, Wendy. The World of Gloria Vanderbilt.
Deluxe Edition with Photograph Laid In, #269 of 480 copies. 2010. Hardcover in dust jacket with purple slipcase;
all are in very good condition. Book is warmly inscribed on the flyleaf, To Kenneth across the years . . . with
love and friendship, Gloria, and so many memories! Book is also inscribed to Kenneth by Wendy Goodman.
Vogue wrote in 1961 that almost every famous female head in the world has gone or will go to Kenneth. One
such head was attached to the swanlike neck of Gloria Vanderbilt. She was listed as a client in nearly every major
obituary of him when he died in 2013. This gorgeous coffee table book is a photo retrospective of his famous
client. In it, she sports a variety of hairstyles, but her stylist remains constantalways Kenneth.
$850.00
THE VANDERBILTS. [Signed] Vanderbilt, William K. Flying Lanes, Being the Journal of a Flight Around
South America and Over the Andes. Privately Printed. 1938. Book is in very good condition; dust jacket is in
very good minus condition. It is inscribed, To Sue Smith, With the compliments of the author William K.
Vanderbilt, May 31, 1938.
Intrepid explorer William K. Vanderbilt II (brother of Consuelo) put his fortune to interesting use in a series
of sea and air adventures. This attractive book, with heavy paper and beautiful b & w photogravure plates, is
the three-week expedition from Miami through the Caribbean to South America and back again via a private
Sikorsky S-43 seaplanethe type that Pan Am was then using for its famed international Clipper service.
$375.00
THE VANDERBILTS. [Signed Presentation to Barrett Kiesling, Head of Publicity for MGM] Vanderbilt,
Cornelius, Jr. Reno. First Edition. 1929. Book is in very good condition; dust jacket is in good conditionjacket
shows chips, tears, and a discolored spine. Book is inscribed, To the Barrett Kieslings who understand my
opinion of honesty transcending success, and who know how I tried to accomplish both, Neil Vanderbilt, Feb.
14, 1929. Laid in a signed typewritten letter from Vanderbilt to Kiesling.
Cary Grant said, Divorce is a game played by lawyers. It was not always that way. The divorce capital of the
world was once Reno, and it resembled a summer camp for caf society types. Vanderbilt gently lampoons it in
this society novel in which the mise-en-scne is as important as the plot.
$375.00
WEDDING/MARRIAGE. [Signed Presentation] Nash, Ogden. Marriage Lines, Notes of a Student Husband.
First Edition. 1964. Book is in very good condition; dust jacket is in very good minus condition. The inscription,
in the form of a poem, reads, My heart is aching/At the departure of Pat and George Larkins/Were I not as
wingless as the warthog or eland/Id fly to New Zealand!/Bon voyage! Ogden Nash. [The recipients, friends of
the author and his wife, were returning home to New Zealand.]
With the deft and light touch one expects from the great Ogden Nash, this book rightly suggests the secrets to
successful matrimony are humility and a sense of humor. Poems concern love, marriage, anniversaries, and the
differences between the sexes. Would make a great gift for a recently engaged couple.
$250.00
The Twentieth Century

THE TWENTIES. Baumer, Lewis. Bright Young Things, A Book of Drawings. First Edition. 1928. Book and
dust jacket are both in very good conditionendpapers are discolored, and jacket shows mild edgewear and
light soiling.
Sometimes satire is so good that it actually serves to elevate what it is lampooning. Such is case with this book
and its brilliant evocation of the hijinks of the Bright Young Things generation. Baumer had been a caricaturist
at Punch for over twenty years when the decadent twenties gave him the best gift of his career. This book,
published a year before the flapper era came to an abrupt end, is a collection his cartoons that first appeared in
Punch.
$325.00
THE TWENTIES. Beaton, Cecil. The Wandering Years, Diaries: 1922-39. First English Edition. Book is in very
good minus condition; dust jacket is in good conditionjacket shows chips to the spine (now concealed with
a facsimile underlay).
In this, his first volume of published diaries, Cecil Beaton laments, What a fatuous fool I am, living in a largely
self-invented world of wit, brains, and money. It was a realm he continued to inhabit for six decades, so one
imagines he reassessed the situation. However, self-doubt was a continuing theme for Beaton, because though
he was often accused of being a snob, the target of his derision was often himself. It is a thrilling book as Beaton
emerges from his cocoon to become the toast of London and then goes on to conquer New York and Hollywood.
$125.00
THE TWENTIES. [Signed, Presentation by Scottie Fitzgerald] Bruccoli, Matthew J. (ed.). The Romantic
Egoists, A Pictorial Autobiography from the Scrapbooks and Albums of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. First
Edition. 1974. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition. This copy is warmly inscribed by F. Scott
Fitzgeralds daughter to his literary assistant, Frances Kroll Ring. The inscription reads, Much love to Frances
happy memories--+ hope therell be many more. From Scottie, December, 1974.
This large book celebrates the couple who captured the zeitgeist of the 1920s, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. It
is a social and literary document filled with photos, news clippings, letters, etc. This copy is signed to Frances
Kroll Ring who was Fitzgeralds assistant at the time of his death and became a vital source for his biographers.
$275.00
THE TWENTIES. Hemingway, Ernest. A Moveable Feast, Sketches of the Authors Life in Paris. Book Club
Edition. 1964. Book is in very good condition; dust jacket is in very good minus conditionjacket shows a few
minor repaired tears, rubbing, and light fraying.
Near the end of his life, Ernest Hemingway recalls the glorious poverty of his life in early 1920s Paris. He
laments the theft of his first novelstolen from the Gare de Lyonbut now understands that due to his youthful
naivet, its loss was posteritys gain. He also recalls his friendships with Gertrude Stein and F. Scott Fitzgerald,
reciting long ago conversations he had with them verbatimalso posteritys gain. If Stein and Fitzgerald come
off as human rather than legends, then perhaps that is also to the benefit of history.
$75.00
THE TWENTIES. Callaghan, Morley. That Summer in Paris, Memories with Tangled Friendships with
Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Some Others. First Edition. 1963. Book is in very good condition; dust jacket is in
very good minus conditionjacket shows minor fraying and tiny edge tears.
Novelist Morley Callaghan mused, Im probably better known for boxing with Hemingway than for anything
Ive written. That famous boxing match comes at the denouement of this memoir of the literary set in Paris in
the summer of 1929, and in its own way, it was as climatic as the stock market crash that triggered the Great
Depression a few months later. F. Scott Fitzgerald was on his way down; Ernest Hemingway on his way up; and
Callaghan was friends with both. It is an insightful account of their friendships with each other and himself.
$50.00
THE TWENTIES. [Signed] Loos, Anita. Gentleman Prefer Blondes, The Illuminating Diary of a Professional
Lady. Tenth Printing in a Thirteenth Printing Jacket. 1926. Book and dust jacket are both in good condition
covers show moderate wear; pages show light soiling and discoloration due to age; and jacket shows fading,
repaired tears, and mild fraying. Book is signed, For Dave Cladfelter, Anita Loos. Illustration by Ralph Barton.
This clever satire that eventually became a star-vehicle for Marilyn Monroe was one of the best-selling books
of 1920s. It was also critically acclaimed. Those singing its praises included Edith Wharton and James Joyce.
Peppered with 1920s slang, the narration is from the perspective of an American flapper whose romantic life
never veers too far from her financial desires, leading to a series of adventures both stateside and in Europe.
$325.00

THE TWENTIES. Smith, Sacheverell (Foreword). Hades! The Ladies! Being Extracts from the Diary of a
Draper Charles Cavers, Esquire Late of Bond Street London, West. First Edition. 1933. Book and dust jacket are
both in very good conditionjacket shows a mild discoloration to the spine.
The humor is dry but delectable in this book about fashionable London in the frenetic 1920s. It is a faux-diary,
purportedly written by a draper (dressmaker). The diarist is a dandy. He adores women but only to dress them,
and they never veer far from his sentiment, as he opines on a variety of subjects relevant to that era, such as
nightclubbing, the Season, raising hemlines, beauty, etc. As to marriage, he laments that the bridal dresses he
creates are more enduring than the blessings of the Church.
$175.00
THE THIRTIES. [Signed] Beaton, Cecil. Cecil Beatons New York. First American Edition. 1938. Book is in
very good minus condition. The dust jacket is a reproduction. Book is signed Best wishes, Cecil Beaton.
What is sometimes forgotten about Cecil Beaton is that he was a first-rate journalist. His meticulous
photographers eye translated easily to the page. But, post-World War II (or definitely post-Garbo), he became
an adult, and thereby grew out of the boundless enthusiasm that characterized his youth. In early work, such as
this, he has mastered dialogue and nuance but has not yet conquered his enthusiasm. The energy and excitement
of Art Deco New York practically leap from the page. The book is decorated with drawings and photographs
(also by Beaton) and includes chapters on fashion, society, theatre, music, etc.
$650.00
THE THIRTIES. James, Robert Rhodes (ed.) Chips, The Diaries of Sir Henry Chips Channon. First Edition.
1967. Book is in very good minus condition; dust jacket is in very good minus conditionjacket shows light
fraying and minor tears.
How extraordinary that Londons best diarist since Pepys was actually born an AmericanHenry Channon. He
relocated from Chicago to London in 1918 and married well (to a Guinness heiress), became a British citizen,
and embarked on a career in politics. He was the ultimate insider in the 1920s and 1930s, and his diaries are
full of references to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and the Abdication Crisis, as well frequent mentions of
one-of-a-kind personalities like Duff and Diana Cooper and Emerald Cunard.
$125.00
THE THIRTIES. [Signed Presentation] Fielding, Daphne. Emerald & Nancy, Lady Cunard and Her
Daughter. First English Edition. 1968. Book is in very good condition; dust jacket is in good plus condition.
Book is warmly inscribed To Edmond, friend + guru, with much love, from Daphne. Laid in is a full-page,
handwritten letter addressed to Monsieur Edmond Colomb de Daunant and signed Daphne.
Daphne Fielding, having had friends in common with both mother and daughter, writes about the Cunards
from a uniquely personal viewpoint. A trove of personal reminisces and anecdotes make the inimitable Lady
Cunard come alive. Yet, a hagiography it is not. Fielding makes no secret of Emeralds aversion to motherhood
and how it contributed to daughter Nancys later difficulties.
$150.00
THE THIRTIES. [Signed] Flanner, Janet. Paris and London Were Yesterday, Pair. Other than a water stain to
the pages of Paris Was Yesterday, both books and their dust jackets are in very good condition. Both volumes
are signed by Janet Flanner and edited by Irving Drutman. These volumes are collections of insider information
and gossip that were published in the New Yorker as Letters from . . .
Paris Was Yesterday, 1925-1939. Seventh Printing. 1972. Book is inscribed to Bill Koshland by both Flanner
and Drutman. A water stain affects an insignificant number of upper pages. London Was Yesterday, 1934-1939.
Book is signed Janet Flanner on the flyleaf.
$375.00
THE THIRTIES. Hirschfeld, Al. Manhattan Oases, New Yorks 1932 Speak-Easies. First Edition. 1932. Book
and dust jacket are both in good plus conditionendpapers show discoloration and jacket shows chipping
(particularly to upper and lower spine), but still attractive.
W.C. Fields quipped, Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. He
was obviously not residing in New York at the time. As this book makes gloriously clear, excess was the order of
that era, and nowhere was that more pronounced than in the range and depth of the speakeasies of Manhattan.
On the eve of Repeal, Hirschfeld portrays thirty-six of them, in magnificent b & w line drawings. Hirschfelds
first book.
$600.00

THE THIRTIES. Horst, Horst P. Salute to the Thirties. First Edition. 1971. Book and dust jacket are both in
very good conditionjacket is price-clipped. Foreword by Janet Flanner. Photographs by Horst and George
Hoyningen-Huene. Notes on the plates by Valentine Lawford.
If there was any doubt that the 1930s were the centurys most glamorous decade (how strange it was also the
most turbulent), this gorgeous book of photographs puts the issue to rest. Its subjects include many of those
that made the decade so remarkableGertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, Marlene Dietrich, the Duchess of Windsor,
Chanel, Elsie de Wolfe, Josephine Baker, Babe Paley, et al. And, with its heavy paper stock and photogravure
plates, even the production quality evokes that era.
$85.00
THE THIRTIES. Rose, Sir Francis. Saying Life, The Memoirs of Sir Francis Rose. First Edition. 1961. Book is
in very good condition; dust jacket is in very good minus condition.
Sir Francis inherited a fortune and was a talented artist, a charmed combination that opened many doors.
That most were ultimately slammed in his face in no way diminishes the appeal of this original and outrageous
memoir. In spite of traveling with his personal zoo (including an elephant), he managed to be present for every
major event of the turbulent 1930s, from Paris to Germany to China and back again. He might not understand
himself, but he perfectly captures those he encounters (Gertrude Stein, Adolph Hitler, F. Scott Fitzgerald, et al.).
$325.00
THE THIRTIES. Seldes, Gilbert. The Future of Drinking. First Edition. 1930. Book and dust jacket are both
in very good condition. Illustrations by Don Herold. There is a third party gift inscription from 1930, which
indicates the recipient might have been involved in the repeal of Prohibition (or was it just a tease?).
With the trend towards decriminalizing marijuana, this satirical, well-illustrated book about Prohibition is
once again of the moment. Gilbert Seldes makes the case that banning a product will only assure its popularity.
Praising the ingenuity of Americans, he discusses the various ways in which those in society dealt with the ban.
He also puts forth the amusing (and true) proposition that though bootleggers might have been the enemies of
the drys, the drys were a necessary evil for the bootleggers.
$225.00
THE THIRTIES. [Signed] Windsor, Duke of. A Kings Story, The Memoirs of the Duke of Windsor. First
American Edition. 1951. Book and dust jacket are both in very good minus conditionjacket shows minor
fraying, chipping, and discoloration. It is signed Edward on a decorative bookplate tipped in to the flyleaf.
Contrary to its name, this thick book is more autobiography than memoir. In it, the Duke seeks to set the record
straight about the love story of the century and its resulting abdication. However, it covers much more than
that. He describes growing up at Windsor, Sandringham, and Balmoral among cousins from most of the royal
houses of Europe. He also proudly recaps his greatest achievementthe globe-spanning goodwill tour he took
as a young and dashing Crown Prince.
$1,200.00
THE THIRTIES. [Signed] Windsor, Duchess of. The Heart Has Its Reasons. First American Edition. 1956.
Book and dust jacket are both in very good minus conditionjacket shows mild fraying, creasing, and light
chipping to the spine. Book is inscribed on the half title page, To Mrs. J.H. Rickenbacker, with best wishes from
Wallis, Duchess of Windsor. Rickenbackers bookplate is attached to the flyleaf.
Following the success of her husbands memoirs, the Duchess of Windsor published her own. With surprising
candor and self-deprecation, she discusses her Southern upbringing and the scandal of her first divorce, which
was, of course, nothing compared to that of her second. Social Historian Cleveland Amory quipped, You cant
make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. Yet why would anyone want to?
$850.00
THE THIRTIES. Zerbe, Jerome. People on Parade. First Edition. 1934. Book is in very good condition. The
jacket is not original to the book but quite attractiveit is a zebra-patterned tissue paper evocative of caf
society haunt El Morocco.
Town & Country editor and lensman Jerome Zerbe was also the court photographer of El Morocco, the legendary
club that took New York by storm in the 1930s. In fact, Zerbes iconic photographs were an essential ingredient
to the clubs success. Film stars, debutantes, and anyone of note all made a pilgrimage there in order to be
photographed by him in the clubs famous zebra-patterned banquettes. This, Zerbes first book, is a collection of
his best work, depicting society in the 1930s. It is of high quality, with b & w photogravure plates.
$200.00

THE FORTIES. Beaton, Cecil. The Years Between, Diaries: 1939-44. English Edition. 1965. Book is in very
good condition; dust jacket is in good conditionjacket shows repaired tears and creasing.
Cecil Beatons second volume of diaries begins as World War II looms, and he worries that a war is specifically
designed to show up [his] inadequacy in every possible capacity. Such a concern is typical of an aesthete/
perfectionist like Beaton. However, subsequent entries prove his doubts where unfounded, as he travels the
world as official photographer for the British Ministry of Information. In between sorties, he writes about how
the war has affected the lives of society friends like Diana Cooper (very well, actually--she truly proved her
mettle). Includes b & w photographs.
$125.00
THE FORTIES. Beaton, Cecil. The Happy Years, Diaries: 1944-48. First Edition. 1972. Book is in very good
condition; dust jacket is in very good minus conditionjacket shows minor repaired tears and light fraying.
An intimate said of Cecil Beaton, I never knew anyone who had nearly as much joy in being a member of the
cast of the play we all act out, and it is only in terms of that joy that one can really know him. The improbable
female lead in this volume of that play was Greta Garbo. He fell in love with her in 1946, and this book
chronicles their romancehence the titular happy years. Other topics include visits to the British Embassy in
Paris during the reign of Duff and Diana Cooper and the beginning of Beatons career as a theatrical designer.
$150.00
THE FORTIES. Hall, Carolyn. The Forties in Vogue. First Edition. 1945. Book and dust jacket are both in very
good condition. Forward by Peter Ustinov.
Vogue was in a quandary during the wartime years. How does a magazine devoted to luxe, cover a decade
dominated by war and austerity? patriotically attempting to make the unfashionable au courant by renaming
Spam Ham Americaine and favoring knee sox over hosiery. Includes illustrations by Salvador Dali, Georgia
OKeeffe, Eric, Ren Bouch, and Ludwig Bemelmans; as well as photography by all the great names, including
Horst, Beaton, and Penn. Diors New Look, the big fashion story of the decade, is also covered.
$75.00
THE FIFTIES. Beaton, Cecil. The Strenuous Years, Diaries: 1948-55. First Edition. 1972. Book and dust jacket
are both in very good conditiona few pages show foxing.
Fortunately, strenuous does not mean boring, and these years are some of Beatons most fascinating. He has
a new maturity and purpose as he expands and adds depth to his career. His society friendships remain, but
his insight into themalways perceptivesharpens even more. Entries on the deaths of Emerald Cunard and
Duff Cooper are particularly good. He also covers the feud with the Laurence Oliviers, the ongoing (but futile)
pursuit of an elusive Greta Garbo, and his emergence as the official photographer of the British royal family.
$150.00
THE FIFTIES. Beaton, Cecil. The Restless Years, Diaries: 1955-63. First Edition. 1976. Book and dust jacket are
both in very good condition.
Beaton obviously thought of these years as his restless ones because his feet hardly ever seem to touch the
ground. Here, he travels the world, visiting exotic locales and also Paris, New York, and Los Angeles. Friends
like Diana Vreeland, Truman Cooper, and Greta Garbo make repeat appearances. He also recounts a grand ball
given by Barbara Hutton in Tangier and an argument with Alfred Hitchcock at a movie screening hosted by
Edie Goetz. There are also descriptions of visits with Coco Chanel and Prince Felix Youssoupoff in which not
one fascinating detail goes unnoticed.
$150.00
THE FIFTIES. Beaton, Cecil. The Face of the World, An International Scrapbook of People and Places. First
Edition. 1957. Book and dust jacket are both in very good conditionpages show occasional minor spots of
foxing, and there is a repaired tear to the upper left front cover of the jacket.
This attractive book falls just short of the lavish production quality of Cecil Beatons Scrapbook, and it is
something of a sequel to that 1930s masterpiece. Like Scrapbook, it showcases a wide range of Beatons talents
photography, fashion illustration, reporting, costume design, etc. It lacks some of the unbridled enthusiasm of
Scrapbook, but in its place is the perspective of a confident man of the world. It includes many pages of b &w
plates, accompanied by the reportage at which Beaton also excelled.
$125.00

THE FIFTIES. [Signed by Lord Snowdon] Armstrong Jones, Tony. London. First English Edition. 1958. Book
is in very good condition; dust jacket is in very good minus conditionjacket shows repaired tear to front
cover. Book is warmly inscribed to a friend. Also enclosed is handwritten on his 22 Launceston Place stationery.
This is Lord Snowdons first book. It was published two years prior to his marriage to Princess Margaret. Though
the royal connection amplified his career, this book shows Armstrong Jones was already on his way. Only
twenty-seven, he was a rising star at British Vogue. It is mostly full-page b & w images (very little text). Subjects
depict the last remaining Edwardians as they collide with post-World War II austerity and modernity: the calm
before the storm of Cool Brittania.
$275.00
THE FIFTIES. Lewis, Richard. Poor Richards Guide to Non-Tourist Greenwich Village. Softcover. 1959. Book
is in very good plus conditiona beautiful copy. Art by Phoebe McKay.
Written when the average price of dinner in the Village was in the three-dollar range, and there was a thriving
book row on Fourth Avenue with twenty booksellers in business, this forty-seven-page booklet is a time
capsule of Beatnik era New York. Its sections include Village Victuals, Booze, Jazz & Entertainment, and
Coffee Houses & Bohemia. There are capsule summaries of the establishments then in existence, as well as
reflections on the nature of Greenwich Village and its lively inhabitants.
$125.00
THE FIFTIES. Maxwell, Elsa. Elsa Maxwells Caf Society, Vol. 1, No. 1. Periodical. 1953. Softcover in very
good condition.
This one-issue magazine was in the style of Confidential but focused less on Hollywood and more on international
society, with Elsa Maxwells unique, insider perspective (though there were undoubtedly ghostwriters).
Maxwells biographer Sam Staggs called it a foreshadowing of Vanity Fair. It contains eleven image-filled
stories, including an expose on the unhappy marriages of Charlie Chaplin, a report on the tragic lives of former
number-one debutantes, and a look into the many marriages of the three Gabor sisters.
$75.00
THE SIXTIES. Bailey, David. Goodbye Baby & Amen, A Saraband for the Sixties. First American Edition.
1969. Book is in very good condition; dust jacket is in very good minus condition. Text by Peter Evans.
The Los Angeles Times summed it up best. Whereas David Bailey, as much as anyone, created the swinging
sixties, it is only fitting that by publishing this book, he helped bury it. Released in 1969, it perfectly encapsulates
a decade that had not yet officially ended (an exception to the rule that only hindsight is 20/20). Bailey supplied
the photographs, many of which first appeared in British Vogue. Peter Evans text is in perfect accord with the
photos, and it includes an appendix with a cast of characters. A gorgeous book that has withstood the test of
time: it is a classic.
$175.00
THE SIXTIES. Beaton, Cecil. The Parting Years, Diaries: 1963-74. First Edition. 1978. Book and dust jacket are
both in very good conditionjacket shows light fraying and minor edge tears.
In this, the final volume of diaries published during his lifetime, Beaton writes, I dont really feel that I am ever
going to come into my own, to justify myself and my existence by some last great gesture. I am likewise certain
that nothing I have done is likely to live long after me. Time proved him wrong, but actually the quality of the
writing in this book does as well. It is filled with perceptive and superbly written epitaphs of friends who were
dying at an alarming frequency in this era. He also chronicles adventures with new acquaintances (such as
David Hockney and Mick Jagger), as well as his misgivings on the knighthood bestowed upon him.
$125.00
THE SIXTIES. [Signed Presentation to Kim Basinger] Cassini, Oleg. A Thousand Days of Magic. First Edition.
1995. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition. Book is inscribed on the half title page, To Kim
[drawing with a heart and arrow through it] Oleg Cassini. Kim Basingers ownership signature is on the flyleaf.
John F. Kennedy famously accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, but it was her official courtier Oleg Cassini
that dressed her for the occasion. This book of photographs, fashion sketches, and text recalls their remarkable
collaboration. Cassini also was a costume designer for films. In fact, one of the last projects prior to his death
was for The Sentinel in which he designed the costumes for Kim Basinger. Her role in the film: First Lady of the
United States, bringing Cassinis career full circle and making this a unique association copy.
$225.00

THE SIXTIES. Clarke, Eddie. Shaking in the 60s. First Edition. 1963. Book is in very good condition; jacket is
in good plus condition--jacket has a chip to the upper left front cover (when in Mylar, chip is barely noticeable).
Designed and illustrated by William S. McCall.
This attractive entry into the mixology genre was written by the bartender and proprietor of Londons famed
Albemarle Club in Mayfair. Before then, he tended bar on the Empress of Britain, meeting countless famous
people and mixing cocktails for royal personages such as the Duke of Windsor. In addition to the cocktail
recipes one expects to find, there is a section devoted to Eddies own award-winning concoctions. Infused with
humor and amusingly illustrated, this is an appealing book.
$250.00
THE SIXTIES. Rous, Lady Henrietta (ed.). The Ossie Clark Diaries. First English Edition. 1998. Book and dust
jacket are both in very good condition.
Ossie Clark was one of the most influential designers of 1960s and 1970s London, becoming nearly as famous
as those he dressed. His journals are an important record of that era, both as to fashion and to the jet set society
in which he traveled. These journals trace his highs and lows and his tumultuous marriage to Celia Birtwell.
Only the English edition has a dust cover showing the journals in the colorful and fluid style in which he wrote
actually wrote them. [Oh dear, they must have been difficult to transcribe.]
$125.00
THE SIXTIES. Horst, Horst P. Vogues Book of Houses, Gardens, People. First Edition. 1968. Book and dust
jacket are both in very good condition. Text by Valentine Lawford. Introduction by Diana Vreeland.
Leave it to the great Diana Vreeland to make society sublime. She was the editor of this folio-sized coffee table
book, a compilation from the midcentury pages of Vogue. On the top ten lists of many designers, it includes
profiles and photographs of Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan, Desmond and Marie-Gabrielle Guinness, Pauline de
Rothschild, Carter and Amanda Burden, Cy Twombly, Doris Duke, Emilio Pucci, the Duke and Duchess of
Windsor and their abodes. It even includes a chapter on Horsts own charming Long Island home.
$675.00
THE SIXTIES. Drake, Nicholas (ed.). The Sixties, A Decade in Vogue. First Edition Thus. 1988. Book is in very
good condition; dust jacket is in good plus conditionjacket shows fraying to the upper front cover.
Powered by the Youthquake, the 1960s sent culture and fashion on a roller coaster ride through the Space Age
and into the Age of Aquarius: quite an epic voyage for a mere ten years. Vogue recorded the decades every
twist and turn. Organized by year, this large book magnificently reproduces the photography, illustration, and
journalism as it appeared in the magazine, from fashion shoots with Veruschka and Jean Shrimpton, to profiles
of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, the Beatles, and President and Mrs. Kennedy.
$100.00
THE SIXTIES. Lilly, Doris. Those Fabulous Greeks, Onassis, Niarchos, and Livanos, Three of the Worlds
Richest Men. First English Edition. 1971. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition.
Who better to tell the story of the mid-20th Centurys glamorous Greek moguls than the author that instructed
Marilyn Monroe and Lauren Bacall on How to Marry a Millionaire? The author was a member of international
society herself and knew the three men personally. As such, she lends a first-person authority to their complicated
business and personal relationships (Onassis and Niarchos married sisters; Livanos was their father-in-law).
Includes several sections of photographs. Uncommon, particularly in dust jacket.
$85.00
THE SIXTIES. Quant, Mary. Quant by Quant. First American Edition. 1966. Book is in very good condition;
dust jacket is in very good minus conditionjacket shows fraying and light creasing.
Fashion journalist Ernestine Carter ranked Mary Quant with Coco Chanel and Christian Dior as designers
fortunate to be born at the right time, in the right place, with the right talents. This was Quants first
autobiography. She published a second volume in 2011. In this one, she discusses the various coincidences and
prescient decisions that turned a small shop on Londons Kings Road into a worldwide fashion empire. The
English edition came first, but this American edition has the cleverer dust jacket.
$150.00

THE SIXTIES. Spoke, Rodney. The Chelsea Cook Book, Camp Cooking for Town Dwellers. First Edition. 1970.
Book and dust jacket are both in very good minus conditionboth jacket and book show evidence of use and
age, and jacket has several repaired tears. Decorated by Salim Patell.
Puns and bawdy double-entendres are the side dish in this cookbook, an homage to the fashion and cultural
scenes of late 1960s London. It salutes both high camp and haute cuisine. One caveat: to prepare its recipes,
budget five minutes to decipher them from British Camp into Standard English and additional five minutes for
mirth. Laughter and fun are the point of the book, and the authors intention is for this to translate to the table.
Never published in the United States.
$100.00
THE SEVENTIES. Galella, Ron. The Photographs of Ron Galella, 1965 to 1989. First Edition. 2002. Hardcover
in very good condition; no dust jacket (as issued). Edited by Steven Bluttal. Introduction by Tom Ford. Foreword
by Diane Keaton. Interview with Ron Galella by Glenn OBrien.
There is no profession more maligned that that of the paparazzo. However, there is one who shattered the wall
between tabloid journalism and respectable artist: Ron Galella. Galellas genius was his ability to combine the
glamour of the studio shot with the authenticity of actual living. Greybull Press rediscovered him and packaged
his work for the 21st Century audience. This large and attractive book was the result. Its size equals the legend
of its subject matter and includes the best examples of his work.
$125.00
THE SEVENTIES. [Signed] Leary, Timothy. What Does WoMan Want? Second Edition. 1988. Book and dust
jacket are both in very good conditionjacket shows a tiny tear to the upper front cover. Book is boldly signed
on the flyleaf, Timothy Leary, L.A. 90069, Box 69886. [P.O. Box 69886 was Learys Los Angeles address.]
Not many works of science fiction manage to be autobiographical, but this cult novel privately printed in 1977
is the exception. In it, a Timothy Leary character attempts to save mankind in a plot that exists not so much for
the sake of the story as it does to present Learys Utopian ideas on the convergence of science, psychology, and
religion. It is if Ayn Rand and Philip K. Dick collaborated on a bookwhile tripping on acid. This was the first
public press edition and was substantially revised by Leary from the 1977 private edition.
$225.00
THE SEVENTIES. Morris. Bernadine. The Fashion Makers. First Edition. 1978. Book and dust jacket are both
in very good condition. Photographs by Barbara Walz.
The 1970s proved to be a watershed moment for American fashion. Until then, European designers were the
marquee names and Seventh Avenue designers knocked off their designs. Halston, Bill Blass, Calvin Klein,
Oscar de la Renta, and Ralph Lauren were not the first to break that mold, but they were the most iconic. This
book recognized this new world order. It profiles fifty of the leading designers from that era, including Adolfo,
Geoffrey Beene, Perry Ellis, James Galanos, Donna Karan, Mary McFadden, Elsa Peretti, Arnold Scaasi, Pauline
Trigre, and Diane von Furstenberg.
$75.00
THE SEVENTIES. [Signed Presentation to San Francisco Art Collector Dodie Rosekrans] Warhol, Andy.
Andy Warhols Exposures. First Edition. 1979. Book and dust jacket are both in very good conditionjacket
shows a tiny chip to back cover. Book is signed to Dodie Rosekrans, love, Andy Warhol.
In the late 1970s, all roads led to Studio 54, whether they originated uptown, downtown, or in Hollywood. It was
an extraordinary mix, the likes of we may never see again. That mix is the subject in this book of photographs,
interspersed with pop culture philosophy and social history. Warhol friends profiled or depicted include
Truman Capote, Diana Vreeland, Halston, Liza Minnelli, Peter Beard, Jacqueline Onassis, Bianca Jagger, Diane
von Furstenberg, and et al.
$850.00
THE SEVENTIES. Warhol, Andy. Andy Warhol: Portraits of the 70s. First Edition. 1979. Book and dust jacket
are both in very good condition.
To be a Gilded Age society portraitist meant gaining entre into the gilded mansions of Newport and Long
Islands North Shore. In Warhols erathe seventies and eightiesit was more important to get past the bouncer
at Studio 54. This is the book for the Whitney exhibition recognizing that Warhol had not only taken the art of
portraiture off life support but had injected it with amphetamines. Includes one hundred twelve examples, with
portraits of Halston, Liza Minnelli, Giovanni and Marella Agnelli, Henry Geldzahler, Mick Jagger, Jane Holzer,
Dennis Hopper, and David Hockney.
$150.00

THE EIGHTIES. [Signed] Crisp, Quentin. Resident Alien, The New York Diaries. First English Edition. 1996.
Book is in very good minus condition; and dust jacket is in very good conditionthere is a discreet reminder
mark to the upper page edge near the spine. Book is signed Quentin Crisp in blue pen on the title page.
As Quentin Crisp admits, he left England for New York City at an age when most people decide to go into
a nursing home. The reward was that his adventures were more thrilling than shuffleboard games or bridge
tournaments. Crisp pushes no agenda other than good manners and humor as he writes about playing Queen
Elizabeth I in a film adaptation of Orlando, touring America to promote the documentary Resident Alien, and
finding himself one of those famous-for-being famous New Yorkers invited everywhere.
$100.00
THE EIGHTIES. [Signed] Galella, Ron. Sex in Fashion. First Edition. 2015. Hardcover in very good condition;
no dust jacket (as issued). Book is inscribed, To Liz Smitha journalist respecting truth. Rear Window made
a good frame to focus on beauty in Sex and Fashion and leave something to our imagination! Ron Galella.
Top paparazzo Ron Galellawhose unwilling muse was Jacqueline Kennedy Onassisgarnered respect
by making high art from a low occupation, of which his Windswept Jackie is the apotheosis. This book of
photographs explores the connection between fashion and sexual voyeurism. Galella begins the book with an
allusion to Alfred Hitchocks voyeuristic masterpiece Rear Windowthe film mentioned in the inscription of
this copy to legendary gossip columnist Liz Smith.
$125.00
THE EIGHTIES. [Signed Presentation to Kenneth from Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis] Loring, John. Tiffany
Taste. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition. Book is inscribed, For Kenneth, with all good
wishes at Christmas, Jackie.
You have to realize that I cannot put my name on a commercial enterprise, Doubleday editor Jacqueline Onassis
told Tiffanys creative director John Loring when she agreed to edit his books about Tiffany. Though her name is
not present, her wit and sense of style are throughout in this attractive book of imaginative table arrangements
(collaborations with a variety of glittering personalities from 1980s international society). Onassis considered
the project social document, not advertising, and posterity has proven her to be correct.
$1,750.00
THE EIGHTIES. [Signed] Lord Snowdon. Public Appearances, 1987-1991. First Edition. 1991. Book and dust
jacket are both in very good condition. Book is signed Snowdon in black felt marker on the half title page.
There is also a third party gift inscription.
The common themes in this book of photographs by Lord Snowdon are its sly, theatrical references. It is akin
to David LaChapelles work (minus the psychedelics). The subjects are mostly from the arts and include actors,
painters, ballet dancers, writers, musicians, and fashion designers. The section with portraits of late 20th
Century leading fashion designers is nearly encyclopedic. Also, there is lovely epilogue to one of the centurys
great ballerinas, Margot Fonteyn. She is depicted in retirement at her ranch in Panama, elderly but still elegant.
$120.00
THE NINETIES. [Signed Presentation to Kim Basinger] LaChapelle, David. LaChapelle Land. First Edition.
1996. Hardcover in slipcase, no jacket (as issued). Both are in very good condition. Book is inscribed on the
half title page, To Kim, the most beautiful woman in the land, Thank you from my [drawing of a heart] David
LaChapelle. On that same page is Kim Basingers ownership signature. There is a full-page photograph of
Basinger on page 138 in the book.
Not since Salvador Dali has an artist so vividly recreated his dreams for all the world to see, and with a color
palette that makes even Technicolor seem subdued by comparison. This book was his firsthow great that it is
so warmly inscribed to one of the stars of the book.
$600.00
THE NINETIES. [Signed by Peter Lindbergh and Liz Tilberis] 10 Women. First Edition. 1996. Hardcover
(no dust jacket, as issued) in very good condition. Book is signed Lindberg, NY 96 on the half title page. It is
dedicated to Liz Tilberis (then editor of Harpers Bazaar), and she has signed it With best wishes, Liz Tilberis.
The nineties was the decade of the supermodel, and the photographer Peter Lindbergh is credited with
discovering many of them and promoting them as such. This book features photo their memorable layouts. The
names of the supermodels, even two decade hence, remain well known, but just in case anyone has forgotten,
the 10 women in the book are Naomi Campbell, Helena Christensen, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista,
Kristen McMenamy, Kate Moss, Tatjana Patitz, Claudia Schiffer, Christy Turlington, and Amber Valletta.
$175.00
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ANDY WARHOL. Smith, Patrick F. Warhol. Conversations About the Artist. First Edition. 1988. Edition.
1988. Book and dust jacket are in very good conditionminor writing on the flyleaf.
The title is apt. This is a book about Andy Warhol as a serious artist, not as the impresario of popular culture,
which is more or less the theme of another Warhol book in this catalogue, Andy Warhols Exposures. The author
witnessed for himself the distinct differences between the public and private versions of Andy Warhol. He used
that perspective when conducting over one hundred extensive interviews with Warhol friends, art dealers, and
associates, which are excerpted in the book.
$75.00
ANDY WARHOL. Firbank, Ronald. 3 More Novels by Ronald Firbank, Caprice, Inclinations, Vainglory. First
Edition Thus. 1960. Book and dust jacket are both in very good conditionjacket is price-clipped. Introduction
by Ernest Jones.
Ronald Firbank had been dead twenty years when New Directions publishing house elected to pursue an old
direction and revive his novels. This book followed the enthusiastic response to a Firbank collection New
Directions released the year prior. That the jacket is credited to Andrew Warhol means it dates back to Warhols
salad days as a fashion illustrator working for Diana Vreeland at Harpers Bazaar, when her nickname for him
was Andy Paperbag, because that was how he delivered his sketches to the magazine.
$175.00
ANDY WARHOL. Andre, Carl. Signed Post Card to Emil de Antonio. Original Work. 1989. In very good
condition. Card is stamped and postmarked. The text reads, 28 Aug 89, PO BOX 1001 NY NY 10276, d:
WARHOL TAUGHT US ALL WE KNOW: AMERICAN LIVES ASPIRE TO BE TRANSFIGURED TO
COMMODITY. IF BEGGARS WERE THINGS THEYD RIDE MANKIND. Signed by Andrea.
Rather cryptically, Carl Andre once commented, Andy Warhol was the perfect glass and mirror of his age and
certainly the artist we deserved. What did we deserve? Based on the additional information provided here, not
much. The recipient was the filmmaker Emil de Antonio. It was de Antonio who launched Warhols Pop Art
career when he suggested Warhol deviate from the then-prevailing Abstract Expressionist style.
$275.00
ART. Cooper, Douglas. Great Family Collections. First Edition. 1965. Book and dust jacket are both in very
good condition.
This large and well-produced book was a sequel to Coopers 1963 opus Great Private Collections. In this volume,
he focuses on twelve remarkable collections, amassed over centuries and generations, a three dimensional
representation of a particular familys life story. The names profiled here are familiarCavendish, Spencer,
Harrach, Pallavincini, Frstenberg, Alba, and de Cond. This book was written in era when inheritance of
familial estates was heavily taxed, and one of Coopers intentions was to demonstrate that private ownership is
critical for the preservation of art. The book is well illustrated, with nearly fifty pages in full color.
$85.00
ART. Liberman, Alexander. The Artist in His Studio. First Edition. 1960. Book is in very good condition; dust
jacket is in very good minus conditionjacket shows fraying, small tears, and mild discoloration.
This book contains hundreds of color and b & w images as well as intimate interviews with artists about their
working spaces. Longtime Cond Nast editorial director Alexander Liberman, an artist himself, had personal
relationships with many of those featured, which made him uniquely qualified to produce it. Artist studios
profiled include those of Balthus, Braque, Czanne, Dali, Delaunay, Dufy, Kandinsky, Lger, Matisse, Mir,
Monet, Picasso (who was a close friend), and Renoir.
$75.00
BARON DU RED. Sothebys Paris. Collection du Baron de Red, Provenant de LHtel Lambert. 2005. Two
softcovers in slipcase. Both softcovers are in very good condition; slipcase is in good condition.
This was one of the most talked-about estate auctions of the last decade, which is fitting, because the Baron de
Red hosted a few of the most talked about parties of the last century. In fact, those ftes are covered extensively
in Volume II of this auction catalogue, which includes b & w photographs and color illustrations of his famous
Oriental Ball and other events he hosted in his home, the Htel Lambert. In total, there are over nine hundred
lots, covering all aspects of the Barons life, which he lived on a grand scalethe likes of which we may never
see again (at least not so tastefully).
$475.00
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BIG SUR. Miller, Henry. Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch. First Edition. 1957. Book is in very
good condition; dust jacket is in good plus conditionjacket shows chipping and fraying.
Henry Miller was a misanthrope who had an unlikely transformation. He became a romantic idealist in old
age. What was the catalyst for Millers stereotype-defying transformation? Well, it is easier to swim against the
current if one frequents the beaches of Californias breathtaking Central Coast. In this appealing memoir, he
writes about his move to an isolated cabin in Big Sur, living in a grove of redwood trees with his third wife and
two young children.
$175.00
BOXING. [Signed] Galella, Ron. Boxing with the Stars. First Edition. 2011. Hardcover, no dust jacket (as
issued) in very good condition. Inscribed, To Wolfgang, Brandos punch to my jaw triggered this book. What
followed was many celebrities and boxers imitated the punch when I followed them. Ron Galella, Dec 11.
Jacqueline Onassis might have wanted to punch paparazzo Ron Galella, but Marlon Brando actually did,
knocking out five of Galellas teeth in the process. It is that event Galella references in his inscription to this
copy. The book is enormous (seven pounds and a foot and a half long). Published in France, only Barneys and
a few other retailers carried it in the U.S. The book depicts champion boxers like Muhammad Ali and Mike
Tyson and a Whos Who of celebrities attending some of the most heralded boxing matches of last forty years.
$325.00
CAMP/CUISINE. Simonetta. A Snob in the Kitchen. First Edition. 1967. Book is in very good condition;
dust jacket is in very good minus conditionjacket shows light discoloration and minor edge tears.
In this chic and impossible-to-find cookbook, the premise is that simplicity is the main ingredient of
sophisticated dining. It was written by the famous mid-20th Century Sicilian dressmaker who first took up
cooking to pass the time while a World War II political prisoner. She put her recipes to paper two decades
later when she moved her fashion house from Rome to Paris and began sharing menu ideas with this books
illustrator, Prince Giovanni de Bourbon. Dishes include Mickey Mouse Souffl, Lemonated Lobster, Harlequin
Souffl, and Hangover Salad (suggested by the Prince).
$175.00
CHRISTMAS. Washburne, Heluiz. Little Elephants Christmas. Fourth Printing. 1944. Book and dust jacket
are both in very good condition. Illustrations by Jean McConnell.
This book features all of the experiences once associates with Christmas, starring a mischievous elephant calf.
In this installment of this midcentury book series, Little Elephant tries on a trunk warmer, retrieves a stocking
from the fireplace, and eats a holiday feast. NHL loves Little Elephant and remain puzzled why this series has
never been republished or adapted for television or film. When that finally occurs, however, early printings will
be in higher demand. Examples of interior illustrations from the book are available via our website.
$175.00
DANCE. Padgette, Paul (ed.). The Dance Photography of Carl Van Vechten. First Edition. 1981. Book and dust
In addition to reviewing dance, Carl Van Vechten was a prolific photographer of it. He began in earnest when
he retired as a novelist in the early 1930s, around the time the Leica camera debuted. That camera became his
new passion, and he used it to shoot all forms of dancea natural progression for someone who was among the
first American critics to take it seriously. In all, Van Vechten contributed over five thousand images to the Dance
Collection at Lincoln Center. This book features two hundred of the best, including portraits of Josephine Baker,
Lincoln Kirstein, Hugh Laing, Agnes de Mille, Alvin Ailey, Jerome Robbins, and Martha Graham.
$75.00
DANCE. [Signed Presentation] Padgette, Paul (ed.). The Dance Writings of Carl Van Vechten. First Edition.
1974. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition. Book is inscribed, Athens, Georgia, Oct. 3, 1976,
For Paul Camp, It is with great pleasure for me to share these memories of Carl and his own writingwith
youwho started it all many years ago by introducing me to his work. Paul Padgette.
Carl Van Vechten invented the career of modern dance critic in America when he began writing reviews on this
subject for the New York Times. Given that it was the early years of the 20th Century, his timing was perfect.
It was the era of Nijinsky and the Ballets-Russes, Anna Pavlova, and Isadora Duncan. It is thrilling to read his
reviews as he experiences these performers for the first time.
$125.00
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DATING. Webster, Doris. Help Yourself! First Edition. 1928. Book is in very good condition; dust jacket is in
very good minus conditionbook shows discoloration to the endpapers, and jacket shows mild creasing and
light fraying.
This curious and uncommon book takes the principles of paint by the numbers artistry and extends them to
psychology. In a way, it is a precursor to computer dating, designed for men and women seeking a mate. It asks
thirty-five questions to each genderone example: Does inefficiency in a man annoy you? Based upon the
answers, the book assigns a key number that corresponds to a chapter in the book that diagnoses the readers
romantic deficiencies and then offers advice on how to correct them. Would make a fun party game.
$175.00
DESIGN/DOROTHY DRAPER. [Signed] Varney, Carleton. The Draper Touch. The Life & High Style of
Dorothy Draper. First Edition. 1988. Book and dust jacket are both in very good conditionminor staining to
a few pages. Book is signed Carleton Varney on the flyleaf.
Written by Drapers protg and design partner Carleton Varney, this is an insider biography of the legendary
mid-20th Century designer. It includes detailed accounts of her famous projects, such as the Greenbrier Hotel,
the Quitandinha Casino in Brazil, and the Dorotheum Cafeteria at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Varney
also includes an account of her cryptic (and humorous) response to Frank Lloyd Wright when he publicly called
her an inferior desecrator at an American Institute of Decorators dinner at which both were in attendance.
$85.00
DESIGN/ENGLISH. Brittain, Judy. English Elegance. First Edition. 1984. Book and dust jacket are both in very
good condition. Co-written by Patrick Kinmonth.
The great Horst P. Horst and Diana Vreeland collaboration Vogues Book of Houses, Gardens, People is one of
the most coveted books about interiors. It is a collection of stories and photographs that originally appeared
in Vogue. This book is its English cousin (on a lesser scale), featuring homes depicted in British Vogue. The
contributors include Derry Moore, Lord Snowdon, Christopher Simon Sykes, Bruce Chatwin, and Lesley Blanch.
The homes featured include those of Duncan Grant (Charleston House), David Hockney, the Devonshires,
Nicholas Haslam, Manolo Blahnik, and many others.
$75.00
DESIGN/ENGLISH. Hicks, David. Living with Design. First Edition. 1979. Book and dust jacket are both very
good condition.
David Hicks considered this book, his seventh, to be the most personal. One of the books subjects is his home,
Britwell House in Oxfordshire. It and other projects are depicted in elaborate case studies. With hundreds of
illustrations, both in color and b & w.
$150.00
DESIGN/EUROPEAN. Bernier, Georges and Rosamund. European Decoration, Creative Contemporary

Interiors. First Edition. 1969. Hardcover in pictorial covers (no dust jacket) in very good minus condition
there is a third party gift inscription to the flyleaf and minor fraying to the covers.
The follow-up to The Best in European Decoration, this book is the second compendium of design reporting
that first appeared in Georges and Rosamund Berniers Paris-based art monthly LIL. The text is translated
into English for the first time here. The projects span the continent. They include London townhouses, Venetian
palazzos, villas on the French Riviera, and Parisian apartments, including the apartments of Marc Bohan and
Karl Lagerfeld, the Palazzo Brandolini, and the home of Gianni and Marella Agnelli.
$125.00
DESIGN/ROBSJOHN-GIBBINGS. [Signed] Robsjohn-Gibbings, T.H. Homes of the Brave. First Edition.
1954. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition. Book is inscribed on the flyleaf, For Jack Hartrick,
with best wishes, T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings. Drawings by Mary Petty.
Robsjohn-Gibbings had unkind words for traditional design styles in Good-bye Mr. Chippendale. In this book,
he ever so gently pokes fun at Modernism while still setting aside a few pages to skewer his mortal enemy Elsie de
Wolfe. The text is both amusing and informative, and Mary Pettys many full-page pen and ink illustrations are
sublime. Full of wit and imagination, they include her interpretations of Back-to-Nature Modern, Aboriginal
Modern, and Low Life Modern (which is depicted on the dust jacket cover).
$175.00
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DESIGN/ROBSJOHN-GIBBINGS. Robsjohn-Gibbings, T.H. Good-bye Mr. Chippendale. Sixth Printing.
1944. Book and dust jacket are both in very good conditionjacket shows minor fraying and light chipping.
As World War II claimed the lives of millions, the noted modernist launched a crusade against the real threat
to the civilized world: Elsie de Wolfe, Syrie Maugham, and their obsession with pickling antique furniture.
With great wit, Robsjohn-Gibbings questions the centuries-old notion that antiques are more desirable than
newly designed furniture, skewering Chippendale, Hepplewhite, Sheraton, and etc. He goes so far as to declare
Harry K. Thaw a hero for murdering Stanford White, the celebrated Beaux Arts architect. Hilarious but also
informative.
$75.00
DESIGN/SYRIE MAUGHAM. Fisher, Richard B. Syrie Maugham. First Edition. 1978. Book is in very good
condition; dust jacket is in good plus conditionjacket shows irregular fading and a chip to the upper right
front corner (disguised with a facsimile underlay).
It turns out the A Star Is Born scenario does not always play out in the course of ones lifetime. For best-selling
author Somerset Maugham, that is a good thing. He surely would not be pleased that ex-wife Syrie dazzles in a
lavish 2010 design monograph; whereas, some of his books are now out-of-print, and he is out of fashion. This
earlier monograph on Mrs. Maugham marked the beginning of her resurgence. It includes mostly b & w (but
some color) photographs of her work, as well information about her life and career.
$125.00
DESIGN/SYRIE MAUGHAM. McKnight, Gerald. The Scandal of Syrie Maugham. First Edition. 1980. Book
and dust jacket are both in very good condition.
Had she been the type to surrender to adversity, Syrie Maugham could have been one of the tragic figures of the
20th Century. Men were rarely kind to her. A domineering first husband forced her, while heavily pregnant, to
ride a camel across the Sahara in scorching temperatures. And, that was relatively benevolent compared to how
second husband Somerset Maugham behaved. Painstakingly researched, the book reveals Syries decorating
secrets and offers up many anecdotes not repeated elsewhere. With delightful cameos by Elsie de Wolfe and
Sybil Colefax.
$125.00
DOG/PHOTOGRAPHY. Ylla. Dogs by Ylla. First American Edition. 1945. Book and dust jacket are both in
very good condition.
Ylla (Camilla Koffler) was a Paris-based sculptor and photographer whose superb portraits of animals made
her the pre-eminent animal photographer of the mid-Twentieth Century. The Museum of Modern Art was
so impressed it sponsored her entry visa into the United States. This book collects some of her best work
in gorgeous full-page photogravure plates. Subject breeds include poodles, English bulldogs, Great Danes,
dachshunds, various terriers, and even a mongrel.
$75.00
DOG/TRAINING. Papashvily, George and Helen. Dogs and People. First Edition. 1954. Book is in very good
condition; dust jacket is in good plus conditionuneven coloration to front cover. Drawings by Marguerite
Kirmse.
Anyone who knows much about children will tell you that they do not like being patronized. This attractive
book makes the same case for dogs. It is a modern approach but one that does not ignore science or tradition.
The authors, a married couple, pivot between history, psychology, and their own experiences. The result is an
intelligent and engaging book, told with humor and kindness but without sentimentality, perfect for experienced
dog owners and novices alike.
$120.00
DUCHESS OF ARGYLL. [Signed] Margaret, Duchess of Argyll. Forget Not. First English Edition, 1976. Book
and dust jacket are both in very good condition. Book is inscribed, To Chris Ellie, with all good wishes, from
Margaret Argyll, November 1975.
This is the story of the celebrated English debutante of the 1930s who was first the wife of the social American
golfer and Duke of Windsor friend Charles Sweeney. [Yes, she was the superlative Mrs. Sweeney in Cole Porters
Youre the Top.] She then married the Duke of Argyll, and this book offers her adaptation of the events leading
up to their destructive divorce, which generated as much press as her illustrious dbut had three decades earlier.
The glamorous illustration depicted on the dust jacket cover is by midcentury Vogue illustrator Ren Bouch.
$175.00
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DUCHESS OF ARGYLL. Castle, Charles. The Duchess Who Dared, The Life of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll.
First Edition. 1994. Book and dust jacket are both in very good conditionjacket shows minor wear.
There are two lessons to be learned from this interesting biography. The first is not to leave a Polaroid of oneself
naked but for a strand of pearls cavorting with a headless man not ones husband. The second is not to fire
the man hired to ghostwrite ones memoirs, as Margaret did with this author gallingly after he landed a hefty
advance for her: her memoir, Forget Not, was the result. However, this author also forgot not. He used his taped
interviews with her as the basis for this book, considerably more frank than Margarets own.
$125.00
DUKE OF WINDSOR. Lord Kinross. The Windsor Years, The Life of Edward as Prince of Wales, King, and
Duke of Windsor. First Edition. 1967. Book and dust jacket are both in good conditionan attractive copy of a
title in which the jacket rarely wears well.
It is the romantic story of the Abdication that captured the worlds imagination. In terms of achievement and
pageantry, that event marked the beginning of the end. This extraordinary book (folio-size) covers the Dukes
entire life. The emphasis, however, is on the enormously successful world tours he made as Prince of Wales. The
books many images are large and beautiful. They portray an empire at the height of its glory and the young and
dashing crown prince who turned out to be at the height of his glory as well.
$175.00
ENGLISH HISTORY/THE STUARTS. [Signed] Auchincloss, Louis. Exit Lady Masham. First Edition. 1983.
Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition. Book is signed Louis Auchincloss on the flyleaf.
All About Eve meets Machiavelli in this slender, sophisticated novel from Louis Auchincloss. Though recorded
history neither confirms nor denies, Auchincloss writes as if the Sapphic rumors surrounding Englands Queen
Anne were true. He conjectures a romantic entanglement between the Queen and her onetime favorite Sarah,
Duchess of Marlborough that derails as result of Abigail Hill, Sarahs impoverished cousin. Abigail lands at
court as result of Sarah but soon surpasses her there, becoming Lady Masham along the way, as she counsels
the Queen to end the war in France and overturn the Hanoverian succession.
$75.00
ETIQUETTE. Crisp, Quentin. Manners from Heaven, A Divine Guide to Good Behavior. First American
Edition. 1984. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition.
Hilarity and good judgment go hand-in-hand in this excellent book, Quentin Crisps discourse on manners and
artificiality. So effeminate that he would make even Truman Capote appear masculine, Quentin Crisp survived
the rougher neighborhoods of midcentury London by adopting a disingenuous and highly exaggerated sincerity.
It served him well, and his example could benefit us all. Brilliant.
$50.00
EX LIBRIS/ELAINE KAUFMAN. Jullian, Philippe. Dreamers of Decadence, Symbolist Painters of the 1890s.
First American Edition. 1971. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition. This copy is from the
library of legendary restaurateur and literary den mother Elaine Kaufman. It includes a warm inscription to her
from Maurice, Jr. [surname unknown] along with a pencil sketch. Laid in is a rectangular slip of paper with a
collage of the word Elaine in a variety of sizes and styles.
Great works of art are reproduced and written about so frequently that there is the risk they become unexciting.
That is not the case here. This book is thrilling. It is imaginative and intellectual but never academic. Jullian has
no interest in the banal, and this book is a feast for the eye, mind, and soul.
$175.00
EX LIBRIS/ELSA SCHIAPARELLI. Dali, Salvador. Hidden Faces. First Edition. 1944. Book and dust jacket
are both in very good condition. Book is ex libris Elsa Schiaparelli with her ownership signature in blue ink.
Who says that fashion is fleeting? The lobster dress and shoe hat collaborations between Schiaparelli and
Dali are nearly as well known today as they were seventy-five years ago. And, as such, this book, Dalis only work
of fiction, is a marvelous association copy. The book is an old-fashioned romance filled with newfangled ideas,
such as Cledalism [Google it]. Moralists were offended of course, demanding that the Marquis de Sade be left in
his grave. Even without the Schiaparelli provenance, first editions in jacket are uncommon.
$375.00
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EX LIBRIS/ELSA SCHIAPARELLI. Pearson, Hesketh. Oscar Wilde, His Life and Wit. First Edition. 1946.
Book is in very good condition; dust jacket is in very good minus conditionjacket shows small edge tears and
light fraying. Book is from the library of Elsa Schiaparelli with her ownership signature on the flyleaf.
Oscar Wilde died a broken man in Paris in 1900. Elsa Schiaparelli arrived in Paris a bankrupted woman in
1922. Only Schiaparelli was on her way up, and along the way, she accumulated an eclectic library, of which this
biography was once part. Though not entirely sympathetic to its subject, the book began Wildes rehabilitation
with some resistance by newspaper reviews that questioned whether Wildes evil life should be set aside.
Schiaparelli was never one to shy away from controversy. It is no surprise that it would be in her collection.
$150.00
EX LIBRIS/GEORGE CUKOR. Liebling, Howard. P.O.R.N., An Entertainment About the Sexual CounterRevolution. First Edition. 1970. Book and dust jacket are both in very good minus condition. This copy is
ex libris the film director George Cukor. His famous Paul Landacre-designed bookplate is attached the front
endpaper.
This farce by a movie studio executive was both a sign of its times and a foreshadowing of our own. It is a story
of mother and daughter on either side of the Sexual Revolution. The daughter poses nude for a girlie magazine
to further her film career. Her outraged mother forms an organization to put a stop to such filth. A maelstrom
ensues, as faux outrage from both sides transforms publicity into profits.
$75.00
FASHION/MENS. Birmingham, Frederic A. Esquire Fashion Guide for All Occasion. Revised Edition. 1962.
Book is in very good condition; dust jacket is in very good minus conditionprevious owners name written on
the front endpaper, and jacket shows rubbing & light fraying. Introduction by O.E. Schoeffler.
This elegant and attractive primer on mens dress is steeped in the Madison Avenue and Ivy League sensibility of
1960s era Esquire magazine. Much more than a how-to book, it proposes an entire philosophy of mens fashion,
noting how stable the trajectory has been compared to its roller coaster counterpart, womens fashion. It then
proposes a classic mode of dress and comportment that resonates today, even as some of its specific guidelines
have relaxed. Includes b & w illustration of its instructions, which are every bit as classic as the book itself.
$150.00
FASHION/MENS. Chenoune, Farid. A History of Mens Fashion. First American Edition. 1993. Book and dust
It is fitting that the heart of mens fashion is Londonas compared to womens, which is of course Paris. Like
the English, the story of mens clothing is evolution, while womens parallels France, with its revolutions and
counter-revolutions. To wit, this image-filled, hefty monograph that traces the subject from Beau Brummell to
Hollywood to the outrageous sixties when, for just a moment, mens fashion contemplated a revolution of it its
own.
$275.00
MENS FASHION. Laver, James. The Book of Public School Old Boys, University, Navy, Army, Air-Force &
Club Ties. First Edition. 1968. Book is in very good condition; dust jacket is in good minus conditionjacket
shows chips, tears, and creasing.
This book, published only in the United Kingdom, is a remarkable achievement. It presents nearly seven
hundred fifty ties in full color plates, divided by the organization for which they were commissioned. Each plate
provides information on the date of foundation, history, and membership of the institution. James Laver, the
man in England who made the study of costume respectable, wrote the entertaining introduction, in which he
traces the necktie all the way back to the colors medieval knights carried into battle.
$200.00
MENS FASHION. Mosconi, Davide. The Book of Ties, 188 Knots for Necks, History, Techniques and
Photographs. First Edition. 1985. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition.
This thoroughly researched and image-filled book, never published in the U.S., is a must for the library of any
dandy or style aficionado. It covers ties, scarves, ascots, and any other piece of cloth that could conceivably be
worn over the neck. There are color images of models wearing each of the styles, b & w images of the historical
figure associated with popularizing a particular knot, and sketches. In addition to the obvious (the Windsor),
there are many lesser-known styles, including the Onassis, the Byron, and the Gordian. It is a great reference,
but it is more than that, because the pictures are so quirky and fun.
$125.00
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FASHION/MONOGRAPH. Lagerfeld, Karl. Lagerfelds Sketchbook, Karl Lagerfelds Illustrated Fashion
Journal of Anna Piaggi. First American Edition. 1986. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition
jacket spine shows a cluster of tiny punctures. A press photo of Karl Lagerfeld is laid in.
Fashion rarely pauses long enough to capture anything other than fleeting glimpses of any one individuals
personal style. There are shockingly few monographs on this intriguing subject. The great Richard Martin book
Flair, Fashion Collected by Tina Chow is one exception. This book is another, and it goes into even greater depth,
both visually and in regard to the narrative. The subject here is the highly imaginative Anna Piaggi, a longtime
editor of Italian Vogue.
$175.00
FASHION/THEORY. Tabori, Paul. The Art of Folly. First Edition. 1961. Book and dust jacket are both in very
good condition.
This insightful (and occasionally hilarious) book evaluates the idiosyncrasies of society in terms of the three
FsFad, Fashion, and Folly. It sees fads as comet-like, irregular and inexplicable. Fashion, however, is more
like a planet in an orbit that guarantees an eventual return, even if it is across so many centuries that only the
historians are conscious of [the] rhythm. This book is all text, no pictures, but it will delight readers with a droll
sense of humor.
$75.00
FISHING. Walford, Lionel A. Marine Game Fishes on the Pacific Coast from Alaska to the Equator. First
Edition. 1937. Book is in very good minus condition; dust jacket is in good plus conditionjacket shows wear,
but is in exceptionally nice condition for this title. Paintings by Link Malmquist.
Fishermen and scuba divers will both appreciate this massive and attractive book that was published in the
1930s by the University of California Press. It was the result of a two month expedition down the Pacific Coast
by group of five anglers and three scientists aboard a ship equipped with a an aquarium, dark room, and lab. The
main section divides the fish into tribes (mackerel, swordfish, barracuda, salmon, sea-bass, etc.) and includes
text and drawings. The second section includes sixty-nine full-page color plates depicting the various species.
$225.00
FRANCE. [Signed] Mitford, Nancy. Madame de Pompadour. Illustrated Edition. 1968. Book and dust jacket
are both in very good condition. The book is inscribed, Miss Audrey Astbury, with the grateful thanks of the
author, Nancy Mitford, 1971.
The Pursuit of Love is sublime, but this, Mitfords first work of nonfiction, is a landmark achievement. Much
as Chanel released women from their corsets, Mitford freed the historical biography from the mind-numbing
constraints of inconsequential dates and meaningless statistics. Her conversational style, then groundbreaking, is
now widely imitated. She also ignited a re-evaluation of de Pompadour, whom male biographers had considered a
trivial character. Here, the clever courtesan emerges a great aesthete and influential patron of the arts.
$475.00
GARDEN. [Signed] Guest, C.Z. First Garden. First Edition. 1976. Book and dust jacket are both in very good
condition; dust jacket is in very good minus conditionthere is minor shelfwear to the jacket. Book is signed in
green pen C.Z. Guest on the blank page preceding the title page. Introduction by Truman Capote. Illustrations
by Cecil Beaton.
They say that if you are thrown from a horse, you should get right back on. But what if the fall is bad enough that
you are laid up in bed? Well, then write a bestselling gardening book. At least, that is what C.Z. Guest decided
upon back in 1976. In doing so, she established a new archetype: the entrepreneurial socialite. Beautifully
illustrated by Cecil Beaton, it is an American classic, much like C.Z. Guest was herself.
$175.00
GAY. Dukahz, Casimir. The Asbestos Diary. First Edition. 1966. Book and dust jacket are both in very good
condition.
Lolita has nothing on this spectacularly idiosyncratic novel, a series vignettes about the authors experiences
with male hustlers, circa the late 1950s and early 1960s. The title references asbestos, because even though the
text is inflammatory, the pages have not gone up in smoke and flames. Given the carcinogenic properties
asbestos is now known to have, there are more contemporary metaphors to be made. The book juxtaposes
stereotypesthe author is as anti-government as he is pro-hedonism. Many passages are echoed by todays tea
party, but others are decidedly not.
$175.00
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HOLLYWOOD. Wiseman, Thomas. The Seven Deadly Sins of Hollywood. First Edition. 1957. Book is in very
good condition; dust jacket is in good conditionjacket shows significant fraying that has been disguised with
a marker.
Even a great wit like Oscar Wilde would be impressed by the frequency and brilliance of the aphorism in this
book from the entertainment columnist for the London Evening Standard. He spent six weeks in Los Angeles
in the winter of 1956 and returned to London with some startling conclusions. Expecting decadence, he found
a company town, which he affectionately but hilariously lampoons in this book. I felt as if I had set out for
cannibal territory only to find that the natives are all vegetarians, he writes. Fun.
$65.00
HOLLYWOOD. [Signed] Berg, A. Scott. Goldwyn, A Biography. Third Printing. 1989. Book and dust jacket
are both in very good condition. Book is warmly inscribed to Jim and Ellie Newton, For my new friends Ellie
and Jimwho have already contributed to this books successorwith gratitude, affection, and anticipation of
many more years of friendship, Scott, March, 1990 (after my maiden voyage to Ft. Myers Beach) Los Angeles.
This biography of the legendary Hollywood mogul is one of the great books about Hollywood, aided by Bergs
access to the vast Goldwyn archive. The inscription to Jim and Ellie Newton (friends to the rich and powerful
who settled in Ft. Myers, Florida) refers to Bergs follow-up book Lindbergh, which won a Pulitzer Prize.
$75.00
THE MITFORDS. [Signed] Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire. Wait for Me! Memoirs of the Youngest Mitford
Sister. First English Edition. 2010. Book and dust jacket are in very good condition. Book is signed Deborah
Devonshire on the title page.
One of the most interesting qualities of this youngest Mitford sister, who rescued the magnificent Chatsworth
estate from the tax collector, is that though impeccably aristocratic, she was paradoxically remarkably down to
earth. Her style never varied, whether discussing the glamour of attending the Paris collections or the particulars
of her prize-winning hens. This fascinating memoir was the latest word on all matters Mitford, and given the
Duchesss recent death, sadly one of the last.
$175.00
THE MITFORDS. [Signed] Mitford, Jessica. The American Way of Death. First Edition. 1963. Book is in good
condition; dust jacket is in very good minus conditionbook shows a small water stain that affects the upper
corners of a few pages;; jacket shows minor fraying to the spine ends and a few tiny edge tears. Tipped in to
the flyleaf is a cartoon saluting Mitford and Rachel Carson with the text, Never underestimate the power of a
woman.
This book runaway best seller from the early 1960s won Mitford no friends in the funeral industry. It did,
however, make her a household name. In it, she comically vilified the unscrupulous undertakers who took
advantage of the poor and bereaved.
$175.00
THE MITFORDS. Mitford, Nancy. The Pursuit of Love. English Edition, Third Printing. 1947. Book is in very
good condition; dust jacket is in very good minus conditionjacket shows minor edge tears.
This is Nancy Mitfords breakthrough novel. The principal family, the Radletts, is a barely disguised version
of Mitfords own. Its lightness and laugh-out-loud funny passages do not mean this is not a work to be taken
seriously. Part of the genius is how the romantic never overwhelms the comic. Style and delight always prevail,
which is also how Mitford lived her own life. This work is only improving with age. Early printings of the
English edition are in short supply and are preferred to the American, which has a less attractive dust jacket and
was released after its English counterpart.
$375.00
THE MITFORDS. [Signed by Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire]. Mosley, Charlotte (ed.) The Mitfords, Letters
Between Six Sisters. English Edition, Third Printing. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition.
Book is signed by both Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire and Charlotte Mosley on the title page.
John Betjeman might have loved the Mitford girls for their sins, but history will remember them for their
correspondence skills. How fortunate the 20th Century was to have the intelligent and lively Mitford sisters to
record its twists and turns, with letters beginning in 1925 and not ending until 2003. All six were gifted writers
with distinct points of view. Moreover, they were on intimate terms with Churchill, Kennedy, and many others
who shaped their era.
$350.00
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THE MITFORDS. Murphy, Sophia. The Mitford Family Album. First Edition. 1985. Book and dust jacket are
both in very good condition.
Ever wonder how the pastoral Cotswolds became the hothouse that produced the one of the most fascinating,
well-connected, and diverse families of the 20th Century? The answer, like so much of social history, is enigmatic,
but its essence is rooted in this scrapbook, which contains both the images one expects to find and those never
before released to the public (the author is the daughter of Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire). Emphasis is on
the personal, but history was never far from the familys doorstep, and the book succeeds on both levels.
$120.00
PARIS. Cocteau, Jean. Paris Album, 1900-1914. First English Edition. Book and dust jacket are both in very
good conditionprevious owners name is written on the flyleaf and jacket shows mild wear.
This book is uncommon in the United States, because there was not an American edition until 1990 (under
the title Souvenir Portraits). The 1956 English edition is more lovely, with an exceptional Cocteau-illustrated
dust jacket and finer quality interior pages. Originally published in Le Figaro, it is a collection of illustrations
interspersed with Cocteaus reminisces on his childhood in Belle poque Paris. His prose is as good as his
sketches that accompany it. Isadora Duncan, Sarah Bernhardt, and Anna de Noailles share the pages with
Cocteaus parents, the circus, and adolescent school days.
$75.00
PARIS. Steward, Samuel M. Parisian Lives. First Edition. 1984. Book is in very good condition; dust jacket is
in very good minus conditionjacket shows light fraying.
Saying Life by Sir Francis Rose [page 12 of this catalogue] is one of the most extraordinary memoirs of the 20th
Century, albeit not necessarily the most reliable. This roman clef, with a barely disguised Francis Rose as the
central character, offers another perspective, with strong supporting roles by Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas
in which they appear as themselves. Most of the events depicted actually occurred. [Of course, Samuel Stewards
life was nearly as outlandish as Sir Franciss but that it is another story.]
$75.00
POLO. [Lord Mountbatten] Marco. An Introduction to Polo. Sixth Edition. 1976. Book and dust jacket are both
in very good minus conditioncorner is bumped and there is a repaired tear to the upper spine.
The author, Marco, is actually a witty pseudonym for Lord Mountbatten (pun clearly intended). He wrote the
entire book, and though his actual polo-playing skills were reported to be unexceptional, he understood the
technique of the game brilliantly, and this has become a classic book on the sport. Includes b & w photogravure
plates.
$150.00
ROMANCE. Blanch, Lesley. The Wilder Shores of Love. First English Edition. 1954. Book is in very good
condition; dust jacket is in very good minus conditionjacket shows discoloration and mild fraying.
Love and adventure are a thrilling combination, even more so when the era is the 19th Century; the backdrop
is the mysterious and romantic Near East; and the author is the sublime Lesley Blanch. This book is a biography
of four extraordinary women drawn there: Isabel Burton (wife of the explorer Richard Burton); Lady Jane
Digby (each of her four marriages took her farther east until she was finally the consort of a Bedouin chieftain);
the beautiful Aime Dubucq de Rivery (the cousin of Josephine Bonaparte who was kidnapped by pirates but
became the influential wife and mother of Turkish sultans); and Isabelle Eberhardt.
$75.00
THE ROMANOVS. George, Grand Duchess of Russia. A Romanov Diary. First Edition. 1988. Book is in very
good condition; dust jacket is in good plus conditionjacket shows edge tears, small chips, and creasing.
This book could just as easily be titled after the royal families of Greece and Denmark. Grand Duchess George
was part of both. She was also within one degree of affinity to the royal houses Germany and Great Britain
(Prince Phillip was her nephew). Written four decades before they were finally published, the book covers her
life story, from the heyday of the European monarchies during Queen Victorias lengthy reign to the post-World
War I era when they many began their descent into ruin. Includes eighty b & w photographs taken from family
albums. Uncommon.
$175.00
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SOCIAL COMMENTARY. [Signed by Slim Aarons] Amory, Cleveland. Who Killed Society? Later Printing.
1961. Book and dust jacket are both in good conditionbinding seam is torn, but all pages intact, and jacket
shows moderate rubbing and minor chipping to the spine. Book is inscribed by Slim Aarons, who is one of the
books photographers, For Mary and the Rich Gallagher, the King and Queen of Books, Thanks, Slim Aarons.
The jury is still out on who killed society, or if it is even in fact dead. However, we do know who shot it: Town
& Country lensman Slim Aarons. In the book, noted social historian Cleveland Amory postulates that upstarts
were using publicity to make society irrelevant, and offers a thousand anecdotes in support of the idea.
$150.00
SOCIAL COMMENTARY. Raven, Simon. The English Gentleman. First Edition. 1961. Book is in very good
condition; dust jacket is in very good minus conditionjacket shows minor chipping and a faded spine.
The premise of this witty book is that World War I wounded the grand tradition of the gentleman, and World
War II administered the deathblow. How banal if the author was a beleaguered type, complaining loudly that
he was the last of his kind. How fun, as is the case here, when he freely admits to being a highly accomplished
cad. The inspiration for the book was that if the author, a notorious scoundrel, was able to prosper in society, it
could only mean the English gentleman truly was dead. The London Telegraph put it best, However little else
Mr. Raven may have in common with the angels, he certainly writes like one.
$85.00
SOCIAL HISTORY. Barrow, Andrew. Gossip, 1920 to 1970. First English Edition. 1978. Book and dust jacket
are both in very condition.
This unique book is a series of journal-style entries, culled from Londons gossip columns, revealing the ebbs
and flows of midcentury society in all its formsthe Peerage, caf society, film, fashion, theatre, art, etc. It is
a cast of hundreds, with frequent appearances by Winston Churchill, Cecil Beaton, Emerald Cunard, Wallis
Simpson, and Diana Cooper (to name a few). It is organized chronologically, so the story arcs of the various
personalities are told in real-time. Includes b & w photographic illustration throughout.
$60.00
SOCIAL HISTORY. Barrow, Andrew. International Gossip, A History of High Society, 1970-1980. First
Edition. 1983. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition.
This is Barrows sequel to his successful Gossip, 1920 to 1970. That earlier volume focused mainly on the dayto day social happenings in London. This one, however, acknowledges the impact of the passenger jet on
society. It moves about the world, with emphasis on not only Europe but New York and California as well.
Its chronological format leaves some entries open-ended, but many conclusions are reached by 1980. Cast of
characters includes Aristotle and Jacqueline Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor, Princess Margaret, Mick Jagger, Andy
Warhol, and many others.
$60.00
SOCIETY FICTION. [Signed] Hitchcock, Jane Stanton. Social Crimes. First Edition. 2002. Book and dust
jacket are both in very good condition. Book is warmly inscribed, To ***with many thanks for all your
support. As my heroine says, I may not remember, but I never forget, Fondest regards, Jane Stanton Hitchcock.
How fitting that the inscription in this copy refers to an aphorism from the book, because this page-turner about
New York society is jam-packed with them. Equal parts wisdom and mirth, they flow effortlessly into the fastmoving plot in which a deposed socialite discovers that being poor in New York is hideously expensive. Most
of the characters are stand-ins for actual Manhattan personalities. Clara Wilamen, for example, is based upon
the authors close friend Jacqueline Onassis.
$125.00
THOMAS JEFFERSON. Malone, Dumas, Six Volume Biography of Thomas Jefferson. Books and dust jackets
are in very good conditiona few jackets show minor edge tears and light fraying: a gorgeous set.
As the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History at the University of Virginia, Dumas Malone could
practically see Monticello from the Charlottesville campus. As such, how natural for him to write the most
in-depth biography of Jefferson ever attempted. It was a monumental task that began in 1948 and was not
completed until 1981. The result is surprisingly readable (given the meticulous detail), and it won Dumas the
Pulitzer Prize in 1975.
$250.00
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TRAVEL/AFRICA. House, John. Land-Rover, My Love. First Edition. 1995. Book and dust jacket in very good
condition. There is a third-party gift inscription on the flyleaf. Illustrated by Jacqui Taylor.
The affection Land-Rover owners have for their vehicles is legendary, which might explain why this title,
published only in the U.K., is already so difficult to find. Or, it could easily be the appeal of the book itself. A
travel memoir, it is set in the still-unspoiled Africa of the mid-20th Century, as a British expat living in Rhodesia
explores the Dark Continent via a second hand Land-Rover. As the title promises, the vehicle is very much a
character of the book, bravely traversing even the most inhospitable of terrain.
$175.00
TRAVEL/EUROPEAN. Bemelmans, Ludwig. How to Travel Incognito. First English Edition. 1952. Book and
dust jacket are both in good plus conditionpages show minor foxing, and jacket shows fraying, light chipping,
and mild soiling.
Were this book released today, Bemelmans might be forced into a public apology, because this allegedly factual
travelogue is enhanced with generous amounts of romantic fantasy. The plot is thus. A poverty-stricken French
nobleman convinces Bemelmans to adopt the title of a forgotten German prince, and the pair travel from Paris
to the Riviera, trading in on the grandeur of their fading nobility. Along the way, they encounter maharajahs,
American tourists, and other such characters one used to read about in an Elsa Maxwell column.
$125.00
TRAVEL/PARIS. Barry, Joseph A. Left Bank, Right Bank, Paris and Parisians. First English Edition. 1952.
Book and dust jacket are both in very good minus conditionjacket shows minor wear.
Though there is no viable means of physically traveling to midcentury Paris, this magical survey of the city will
transport you there. The Paris of which Joseph Barry writes is the same one Nancy Mitford encountered (and
adored) when she moved there after World War II. He explores various components of the city and its citizenry,
including its couturiers, artists, nightclubs, politicians, expatriates, Existentialists, etc. Particular illuminating
are his insights into French marriage, and how though it is good to be a Frenchman; to be a Frenchwoman
means to be extraordinary.
$125.00
TRAVEL/SOUTH AMERICA. Isherwood, Christopher. The Condor and the Cows. First English Edition.
1949. Book and dust jacket are both in very good conditionbook has occasional light pencil marks, and jacket
spine shows a repaired tear. Photographs by William Caskey.
This is the midcentury travel diary of a six-month journey through South America by Christopher Isherwood
and his friend William Caskey. They travel from Venezuela to Argentina, hitting every major country except
for Uruguay and Brazil. The condors of the title refer to vertiginous countries nestled in the Andes and the
cows to the plains regions of Argentina, but there is an alternate, macabre connection between the two animals
(described on page 110). The book includes ninety-four gravure images of photographs of their journey.
$75.00
TRUMAN CAPOTE. [Signed Presentation to Kay Graham] Moates, Marianne M. A Bridge of Childhood,
Truman Capotes Southern Years. First Edition. 1989. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition.
Inscription reads, For Kay Graham, Because I know how very special you were to Tru, Best wishes Marianne
Moates. A promotional bookmark also signed by the author is laid in.
Written in close cooperation with Capotes first cousin, this book chronicles Trumans formative years in
Monroeville, Alabama. This copy is unique, because it is signed to Kay Graham, the guest of honor at Capotes
legendary Black & White Ball.
$225.00
TRUMAN CAPOTE. [Signed] Plimpton, George. Truman Capote in which Various Friends, Enemies,
Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career. First Edition. 1997. Book and dust jacket are both
in very good condition. Book is signed George Plimpton on the title page.
This is an oral history-style biography written in the manner of Thackeray or DickensTruman Capote as
the protagonist of a Victorian novel. It is a given that Capote is fascinating, but just as compelling are the
interviewees, who in discussing relationship with Capote, reveal as much about themselves as they do about
him. Participants included Lee Radziwill, Gore Vidal, Diana Vreeland, and many others. It is also a portrait of
New York, as the city transitioned from caf to disco society.
$75.00
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VOGUE. Daves, Jessica (ed.) The World in Vogue. First Edition. 1963. Book is in very good condition; dust
jacket is in very good minus conditionthis is an exceptionally nice copy of a title in which the jacket is
typically in tatters.
This book was published on the magazines seventieth anniversary and is a compendium of its best writing,
photographs, and illustration with contributions by some of the most iconic writers, photographers, and artists
of the 20th Century. Fashion is but one of the subjects covered. The book speaks to a reading audience moved
by hunger, love, and fear; to seek amusement; to feel envy, desire, curiosity, and [possess] an avid interest in the
new, in art, fashion, philosophy, music, and society.
$125.00
WEDDDING/MARRIAGE. Cannon, Poppy. The Brides Cookbook. First Edition. 1954. Book and dust jacket
are both in very good conditionendpapers show mild discoloration, and jacket is price-clipped.
Poppy Cannon was a bombastic food editor for House Beautiful who became a powerful shill for the burgeoning
processed food industry. Here, she assures brides that nourishing meals could be prepared in minutes with the
assistance of can openers and prepackaged mixes. Consider her a champion of the unnatural foods movement.
Hilariously, her culinary qualifications are now in doubt. A former secretary has since disclosed that Cannon
lived on takeout and did not even have her oven and stove connected. Yet, this folly somehow only adds to the
appeal of the booka most amusing gift for the bride of today. Copies in dust jacket are uncommon.
$150.00
WEDDING/MARRIAGE. Collier, John. His Monkey Wife. American Edition. 1957. Book is in very good
condition; dust jacket is in very good minus condition.
This satirical masterpiece is not appropriate for the rom-com set, but it is a sublime choice for the lover of satire.
Collier, who also wrote the screenplay for The African Queen, relates an absurd love triangle between a man,
his intended, and the loyal and intelligent ape that accompanies him home from Africa. It is an absurd set-up
that is not to be taken literally but instead championed for its comedic dividends and insight into human frailty
and the capriciousness of love. Published in 1930, it escapes mainstream best-of lists, but it is highly praised by
sophisticates like the London decorator Nicky Haslam (Simon Fleet recommended it to him).
$45.00
WEDDING/MARRIAGE. Mangan, Sherry. Cinderella Married, Or How They Lived Happily Ever After, A
Divertissement. First Edition. 1932. Book is in very good condition; dust jacket is in very good minus condition.
One need only to look to a modern fairy talethe marriage of Lady Diana to Charles, Prince of Walesto
understand that happily ever after is where the drama begins, not ends. This fanciful novel brings Cinderella
into the 20th Century, imagining the challenges Prince Charming and his rags-to-riches bride endure after they
marry. Their problems include the embarrassment of her over-dressed and ill-mannered stepsisters at court
functions, a cheeky fairy godmother that refuses to fade into the woodwork, and a chinless wonder Prince that
is not as charming as his moniker suggested (of which Lady Diana would certainly have agreed).
$275.00
WEDDING/MARRIAGE. Maurois, Andr. The Art of Being Happily Married. First Edition. 1953. Book is
in very good condition; dust jacket is in very good minus conditionjacket shows minor edge tears and light
fraying, and it is also price-clipped. Translated by Crystal Herbert.
Published in France as Cours de Bonheur Conjugal, this book by the French literary lion Andr Maurois presents
the pitfalls and pleasures of marriage via twelve instructional vignettes. He follows a wedded couplePhilippe
and Marisethrough a series of adventures, from courtship and honeymoon to silver anniversary. Gallic
sophistication and marriage turn out to be entirely compatible in this elegant treatise on good manners. It would
make a lovely gift for newlyweds.
$75.00
WEDDING/MARRIAGE. Tarloff, Frank. A Guide for the Married Man. First Edition. 1967. Book and dust
jacket are both in very good condition. Illustrated by Paul Darrow.
This tongue-in-cheek book of advice offers hope to the bridegroom, assuring him a long and happy marriage.
Ho hum: there are many such self-help titles, but the twist here is that the author considers the greatest danger
to wedded bliss is not an extramarital dalliance but its discovery. Therefore, most of the advice concerns how
to keep ones indiscretions discreet. Published at the height of the sexual revolution, the book evokes Playboy
magazine from that same periodcomplete with erotic cartoon illustration. This would make a fun gag gift for
a bachelor partyperhaps signed or inscribed by the attendees (if they dare risk the wrath of the bride).
$125.00

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In 1952, Markey forsook California for the greener pastures of

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Truman Capote was a great stylist and raconteur. Effect mattered

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