The Rainbow People A Gaudy World of the Very Rich and Those Who Served Them
by Collier, Richard
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0396083897
- ISBN 13
- 9780396083894
- Seller
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The Woodlands, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1984. Hardcover. 0396083897 . Price clipped. Black and white photographs. "Collier takes a hard look at the facts and legends behind the glamour of these people [Edward VII of England, Onassis, Diamond Jim Brady, Barbara Hutton, Grace Vanderbilt, F. Scott Fitzgerald etc.] to whom what mattered most was to travel from the cradle to the grave with a style that had the shining iridescence of a rainbow..." -back flap. Clean text. Dust jacket has shelf and edge wear heaviest at ends of spike and corners with rubbing at spine. Two corners price clipped. Protected in an archival cover. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 278 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Good Books In The Woods (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 72096
- Title
- The Rainbow People A Gaudy World of the Very Rich and Those Who Served Them
- Author
- Collier, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0396083897
- ISBN 13
- 9780396083894
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1984
- Keywords
- 0396083897
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