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London, UK: Abelard-Schuman, 1973 Translated from the French by Francine Barker. B/w illustrations. Some age and shelf wear. Original dustjacket not price clipped. D/j edges rubbed, corners bumped. Book cover at spine top and tail slighted bumped. Top left hand corner of front endpaper has previous owner's name and address in blue ink - otherwise no internal markings, clean text pages. Top edge of pages has age spots. Tight copy. "In The Big Supposer, a distillation of six hours' conversation with Marc Alyn (a leading French poet and book critic of the Figaro), Durrell draws an astonishing picture of himself, playing with words, trifling with reputations and literature. Durrell himself says of Marc Alyn's book that it at first seems arbitrary but in fact has a shape of its own. He aimed at a sort of collage composed of many snapshots. At the back of the book is a horoscope of Durrell, composed by astrologer Moricand from a date provided by Henry Miller (Moricand did not meet… Read More

Los Angeles, CA, USA: Conde Nast Publications, 1995 Slight shelf and age wear - usual white address label at bottom of back cover. Minimal wear. Tight copy. Not sunfaded. Clean text pages no internal markings. Volume 52, Number 9. colour and b/w illustrations/photography throughout. Editor-in-Chief: Paige Rense. Cover shows a photograph of the shore of Lake Naivasha in Kenya, Dodo and Michael Cunningham-Reid's eight-story cypress clad tower marks the centre of a 500 acre animal sanctuary. This Special Edition on design around the world features exotic houses in Brazil, Kenya, India, Turkey, Japan, Belize, Indonesia and much more.

Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.: Conde Nast Publications, 2000 Volume 57, Number 1. INTERIOR DESIGN LEGENDS. Editor-in-chief Paige Rense. 252 pages. Colour and b/w illustrations/photography throughout. Slight shelf and age wear - edges of back cover slightly rubbed with 3 small tears (1/8"). Lower right hand corner of front cover has crease. Tail of spine slightly rubbed. Tight copy. Minimal wear. Not sunfaded. Clean text pages no internal markings. Cover shows Mrs Henry Clay Frick's boudoir by Elsie de Wolfe. THIS SPECIAL ISSUE features Billy Baldwin; Geoffrey Bennison; Rose Cumming; Elsie de Wolfe; Angelo Donghia; Dorothy Draper; Tony Duquette; Frances Elkins; Vincent Fourcade; John Fowler; Jean-Michael Frank; Georges Geffroy; William Haines; Mark Hampton; David Hicks; Jansen; Jed Johnson; Syrie Maugham; Renzo Mongiardino; William Pahlmann; Sister Parish; T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings; Henri Samuel; Michael Taylor; Ruby Ross Wood; and much more.

Los Angeles, CA, USA: Conde Nast Publications, 1996 Volume 53, Number 5. Colour and b/w illustrations/photography throughout. Slight shelf and age wear - usual white address label at bottom right hand side of back cover. Tight copy. Minimal wear. Not sunfaded. No creases. Clean text pages, no internal markings. Cover: In the living room of a pre-war Park Avenue penthouse - photography by Scott Frances. Features on interior design includes: Ed Moses in Venice; Richard Branson's Virgin Paradise; Historic Houses - Henry Ford, the inventor of the Model T at his estate in Michigan; Jerrold E Lomax - Southern California Geometries; Katharine Weber writes about antiquing with Jacqueline Onassis, hunting for American Country Furniture in Connecticut; Historic Gardens - Stowe in England, epic effort to save a celebrated landscape; Illuminating Chartres - a first look at the Cathedral's newly restored glass; and much more.

Los Angeles, CA, USA: Conde Nast Publications, 1999 Volume 56, Number 5. Colour and b/w photographs and illustrations throughout. Some age and shelf wear. Tight copy. Minimal wear. Not sunfaded. Clean text pages, no internal markings. Cover: the living room in John Travolta and Kelly Preston's house in Maine - photography by Mary Nichols. Features: Architectural Digest Visits John Travolta and Kelly Preston - the Actors' Rambling Family Retreat off the Coast of Maine; Architecture: Manhattan Sugar Cube - Cool Geometries Define Patsy and Troy Halterman's Fifth Avenue Apartment; Grand Passions Revived in Paris; Vermont Life and Times - Barbara and Gerald M Levin in New England; A Pattern Language - Black-and-White Dreams Above Manhattan; Biography of a Country House - Author Gerald Clarke's Shingled Refuge on the Eastern End of Long Island; Art: Images of Old China; Giving Jupiter a New Spin - Revisiting Mediterranean Themes with a Fresh Eye in Florida; Material Logic in New York; On… Read More

Los Angeles, CA, USA: Conde Nast Publications, 1997 Volume 54, Number 12. Editor-in-Chief Paige Rense. Colour and b/w illustrations/photography throughout. Slight shelf and age wear - usual white address label at lower right hand side of back cover. Tight copy. Minimal wear. Not sunfaded. No creases. Clean text pages, no internal markings. Cover: The dining room of fashion designer Carolyn Roehm's Manhattan apartment - photography by Jaime Ardiles-Arc. Features include: Carolyn Roehm in Manhattan; Giving a Nineteenth-Century Terrace House in London a contemporary spin - interior design by David Linley; Alabama Tale in Point Clear; France's Renowned Chateau Rauzan-Segla restores; Aldo Rossi's last projects a Paean to small-town life in Florida; bold forms in stone, wood, and metal define a residence in San Francisco's Russian Hill; Jennifer Bartlett's home and studio in Greenwich Village; Claudia Ruspoli revives her family's castle in Italy; and much more.