Vogues Book of Houses, Gardens, People
by Valnetine Lawford (text by), Horst (photographed by), Diana Vreeland (foreword by)
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good -
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1968. 196 pgs.with mainly color photographs by Horst (few black-and-white). Original gilt lettered cream colored covers. Embossed title on front cover. "A Studio Book". Text by Valentine Lawford. Introduction by Diana Vreeland. Pages are clean (unmarked) but yellowed with age. Front hinge is creased (and text block is slightly pulling away from boards) but pages are still very secure. Boards have minor rubbing to corners. DJ is clipped at upper front flap. DJ has denting/chipping to head of spine, nicking/scraping to upper front panel edge, upper front corner frayed at flap,rubbing to extremities. Looks nice in added protective mylar covering. Features Madame Jacques Balsan; Mr & Mrs. Carter Burden, Jr; Miss Doris Duke; Mr. Henry Francis du Pont; Lord & Lady Eliot; Mrs. Charles Fuller; the Desmond Guinnesses; Horst's house on Long Island; Mrs. Nancy Lancaster; Marchese Emilio Pucci, Baron & Baroness Philippe de Rothschild; Duke & Duchess of Windsor and others. Nice reading copy and increasingly scarce. . Oversized Hardcover. Good/Good -. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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- Bookseller
- after-words bookstore
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 117320
- Title
- Vogues Book of Houses, Gardens, People
- Author
- Valnetine Lawford (text by), Horst (photographed by), Diana Vreeland (foreword by)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good -
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1968
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12&
- Keywords
- Interior Design
- Bookseller catalogs
- Interior Design; Interior Decorating;
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- Gilt
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- Rubbing
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