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Allure
by Vreeland, Diana; Christopher Hemphill
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- g- to vg
- ISBN 10
- 0385150482
- ISBN 13
- 9780385150484
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. g- to vg. Elephant Folio (15 1/4 x 11"). 208pp. Original bright red cloth with gilt initials on cover, gilt lettering on spine, in original dustjacket with black lettering on spine. Photo-illustrated endpapers. Small frontispiece photograph. "The thousand words a picture is said to be worth are perhaps an unreliable measure of the impact Diana Vreeland's spell-binding commentary on the photographs she has selected and arranged with such extraordinary effect in Allure. For they seem to liberate the long and well-stocked memory of a woman who knows everybody... is known by everybody, has opinions on almost everything..." (Publisher). Extraordinary collection of photographs with text by Vreeland and Hemphill. Pasted to inside front cover a label of 1983 Rodeo Drive International Gala honoring Diana Vreeland. Photo credits at rear. Dustjacket with light wear along edges, sunned along edges and price-clipped. Three interior pages with light foxing and the balance of pages in very good condition. DJ in good-, interior in good condition.
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- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 48160
- Title
- Allure
- Author
- Vreeland, Diana; Christopher Hemphill
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - g- to vg
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385150482
- ISBN 13
- 9780385150484
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Co., Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- Richard Avedon, b/w photography, fashion photography, Alexey Brodovitch, Allure
Terms of Sale
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
Biblio member since 2009
Santa Monica, California
About Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
We offer a broad selection of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books with an emphasis on photography, architecture, art, Judaica, Bibles, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, modernism, Olympic Games, erotica and foreign-language works, especially German, Hebrew, Polish and Yiddish. We also provide appraisal, auction, consulting and rental services.
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