Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend by Gordon, Meryl - 2017

New York / Boston: Grand Central Publishing, 2017. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. First Edition in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean white boards with blue metallic lettering on spine. Bump to one lower corner of spine with short tear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages and edges are clean with clean beautifully decorated endpapers; no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with black and white plates. 516 pages with Index + "About the Author." Clean dust jacket is unchipped, not price clipped; small corresponding closed tear at lower spine fold; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Regal yet mischievous, Bunny Mellon was a trend-setting American style icon, prescient art collector, talented landscape designer, horsewoman, and Best-Dressed List regular, who gained national acclaim for designing the White House Rose Garden at the behest of her close friends, President and Jacqueline Kennedy. Her lifestyle was the stuff of legend. She had an unerring eye for beauty and a profound influence on American culture..