Allure
by Vreeland, Diana
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good Plus
- ISBN 10
- 0385150482
- ISBN 13
- 9780385150484
- Seller
-
Baldwinsville, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1980. First Edition . Cloth. Fine/Very Good Plus. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. [photographs]. New York: Doubleday, 1980. Elelphant folio [15x10½] 208 pp. Black and white photographs throughout. Cloth, jacket. First Edition. A magnificent collection of many of the 20th century's greatest fashion photographers (including Horst, De Meyer, Avedon, Beaton, Pen, and Steichen, as well as some interesting and bizarre paparazzi shots), selected and with a spell-binding text by Diana Vreeland. Now a classic in its genre. Condition: NF/VG; light yellowing to jacket spine and about a third of the front panel, light creasing, light bubbling at bottom front panel; light rubbing at bottom spine; near fine in very good or better jacket. LBB-E
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- Bookseller
- Singularity Rare & Fine
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000137
- Title
- Allure
- Author
- Vreeland, Diana
- Illustrator
- [photographs]
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good Plus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0385150482
- ISBN 13
- 9780385150484
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Co., Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1980
- Size
- Elephant Folio - over 15" -
- Keywords
- Fashion, Photography, Art
- Bookseller catalogs
- Photography;
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About the Seller
Singularity Rare & Fine
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Baldwinsville, New York
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- Jacket
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- Rubbing
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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