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NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975. Oblong octavo. [36] pp; numerous b/w illustrations. Paperback. Fine, a crisp, unmarked copy; covers with no wear. Catalogue of an exhibition organized by Diana Vreeland for the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan. "This is not a dress show. This is an exhibition to project, through the beholder's imagination, a vision of ten American women of style." DV. The women are Elsie de Wolfe, Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough, Mrs. John W. Garrett, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Isadora Duncan, Mercedes de Acosta, Irene Castle, Millicent Rogers, and Josephine Baker.. First Edition. Soft Cover. New.
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AMERICAN WOMEN OF STYLE An Exhibition Organized by Diana Vreeland
by Vreeland, Diana & Stella Blum
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THE BRONTES AT HAWORTH : The World Within
by Gardiner, Juliet
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NY: Clarkson Potter, 1993. Oblong quarto. 160 pp; numerous color & b/w illustrations; index; the sources. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.
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GARDENING LETTERS TO MY DAUGHTER With Some Replies from Clare Hastings
by Scott-James, Anne
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NY: St. Martin's Press, 1991. First U.S. edition. Octavo. 184 pp; illustrated by Virginia Powell. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy, binding tight; unclipped jacket is crisp & bright. The author and her daughter, Claire Hastings, lived next door to each other in a village on England's Berkshire Downs.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.
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THE GOLDEN MEAN: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Concludes
by Bantock, Nick
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San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993. Second printing. Octavo. Unpaginated, color illustrations throughout. Hardcover with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket with minor wear.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.
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MY CRYSTAL BALL Reminiscences
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NY: Boni and Liveright, 1924. Third printing. Octavo. 355 pp; 20 illustrations from photographs. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG-. Rare in jacket. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.
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NANCY MITFORD : A Biography
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NY: E.P. Dutton, 1986. First American edition. Octavo. xii, 274 pp; 16 pages of b/w photographs; bibliography; index. Cloth-backed boards with dustjacket. VG/VG, previous owner name at top of front free endpaper.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.
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OUT OF MY TIME
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1971. First edition. Octavo. 251 pp; 48 b/w illustrations. Publisher's burgundy cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, small erasure spot on front flyleaf, else a clean, unmarked copy; price-clipped jacket lightly chipped at top & bottom of spine, short edge tear, light soil on back panel. Autobiography of Marya Mannes (1904-1990) American writer and critic, known for her insightful observations of American life. Marya describes her childhood in an uncommon family - her parents, Clara Damrosch & David Mannes founded the Mannes College of Music, and her musician brother co-invented the Kodachrome process - and her uncommon education.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.
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PLAIN & FANCY American Women and Their Needlework, 1700-1850
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NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977. First printing. Octavo. 240 pp; profusely illustrated with 42 color & 123 b/w photographs from the collection of the Winterthur Museum. Publisher's red cloth with black-lettered cover & spine in dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a crisp, tight, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket with minor edgewear. Review slip laid in.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.
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A ROOM OF HER OWN : Women's Personal Spaces
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NY: Clarkson Potter, 1997. Second printing. Quarto. 224 pp; profusely illustrated with color photographs; index. Illustrated boards with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG+. Women from all walks of life show us the sanctuaries they have created in their own homes. . Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good+.
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ROUND MANHATTAN'S RIM
by Worden, Helen
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Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1934. First edition. Octavo. 302 pp; illustrated by the author. Original blue cloth, maps on endpapers. No jacket. VG, spine lightly sunned, else a clean, unmarked copy. Helen Worden Erskine, 1896-1984, journalist and author of The Real New York, Here is New York, and Out of this World (about the Collyer Brothers and other hermits).. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.
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The Road Through Spain [with original box]
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Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Co., 1929. Deluxe edition. Octavo. 408 pp; color frontispiece, numerous b/w plates; index; map on endpapers. Burgundy pictorial cloth with gilt-stamped lettering on cover & spine, in original glassine wrap with original box. VG book - clean & unmarked, glassine lightly chipped at edges. Box split at corners. In 1928, Dorothy Giles drove her own Ford across the Iberian Peninsula with a female friend. A native of Cold Spring, NY, she had studied art and languages at a high school in Garden City, Long Island. Prior to her Spanish road trip, she had published two books but she is chiefly remembered for her two travel books - this one and The Road Through Czechoslovakia (1930).. Inscribed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.
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TRIO: Oona Chaplin, Carol Matthau, Gloria Vanderbilt: Portrait of an Intimate Friendship
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NY: Simon & Schuster, 1985. First printing. Octavo. 256 pp. Cloth-backed boards with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket has light toning at top & bottom edges of flaps. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.
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V. SACKVILLE-WEST A Critical Biography
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NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974. First edition. Octavo. xvi, 192 pp; b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Cloth with dj "a perceptive study of the relationship between V. Sackville- West's life and her work, in which [is explored] her poems 'The Land' and 'The Garden', biographies, novels, shorter poetry, and all her writings, published and unpublished." [dj]. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.
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VIOLET: The Life and Loves of Violet Gordon Woodhouse
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London: Harvill Press, 1996. Second printing. Octavo. 342 pp; 32 pages of b/w photographs; appendices; discography; bibliography; index. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, in dustjacket. VG/VG-, light jacket wear & mild creasing at bottom edge on back cover. Violet Gordon-Woodhouse (1872 - 1948) was an acclaimed British harpsichordist and clavichordist, highly influential in bringing both instruments back into fashion. She was the first person to record the harpsichord, and the first to broadcast harpsichord music.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.
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