Gowns by Adrian : The MGM Years 1928-1941

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 2001. Appears unread. Fine condition in a bright and shiny Fine dust jacket. NOT price clipped ($39.95). The jacket is protected by a lightly rubbed, removable clear-plastic sleeve. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO fading. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked - apparently seldom, if ever read. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. 2001. First Printing of the First Edition with full number line (10 987654321) on the copyright page. Profusely photo illustrated Index. Bound in the original gray cloth, stamped in bright white. Oversize Hardcover. 9.25" wide by 12" tall. This large heavy book will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments, but only the standard charge for media mail. From the dust jacket: "From his earliest days working at the colossal movie studio MGM, at the young age of 24, Gilbert Adrian had a vision that would showcase a new era in costume design for the screen. So fresh were his ideas, so original were his designs, and so extraordinary the workmanship that Adrian quite rightly earned the elegant film credit sobriquet, 'Gowns by Adrian.' He was the first, if not the most publicized, of a Hollywood hybrid known as the costume designer/couturier… GOWNS BY ADRIAN: THE MGM YEARS, 1928-1941 is the first comprehensive look at this prodigiously talented designer in his glory years at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The result of more than 10 years of research, access to previously unavailable MGM personnel files, and containing many unpublished photographs and complete filmography, GOWNS BY ADRIAN brings us into the design studio and onto the sound stage and makes us privy to the everyday give-and-take between designer and star. For the reclusive Garbo, Adrian was the only designer who understood her wish to avoid revealing necklines or fur; Shearer was particular in another way: two versions of every dress were de rigeur before she would choose one of them; and Crawford, was there ever a star more demanding or more determined? As Adrian once exclaimed, 'Who would have thought that my entire reputation as a designer would rest on Joan Crawford's shoulders!'". First Printing of the First Edition. Oversize Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 208pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.