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VOGUE'S BOOK OF HOUSES, GARDENS, PEOPLE
by Lawford, Valentine. Introduction By Diana Vreeland
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Viking Press / A Studio Book, 1968. First edition. Quarto. 195 pp; color & b/w photographs by Horst. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; price clipped jacket rubbed at spine ends - 0.5 in. at head of spine now mostly white rather than red; light edgewear, usual delamination issue. Features Madame Jacques Balsan; Mr & Mrs. Carter Burden, Jr; Miss Doris Duke; Mr. Henry Francis du Pont; Lord & Lady Eliot; Mrs. Charles Fuller; the Desmond Guinnesses; Horst's house on Long Island; Mrs. Nancy Lancaster; Marchese Emilio Pucci, Baron & Baroness Philippe de Rothschild; Duke & Duchess of Windsor and others.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Carnegie Hill Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013594
- Title
- VOGUE'S BOOK OF HOUSES, GARDENS, PEOPLE
- Author
- Lawford, Valentine. Introduction By Diana Vreeland
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Viking Press / A Studio Book
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1968
- Keywords
- Vogue Horst Vreeland Pauline De Rothschild Burden Guinness Duke Photography
- Bookseller catalogs
- Photography;
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About the Seller
Carnegie Hill Books
Biblio member since 2004
New York, New York
About Carnegie Hill Books
We specialize in rare and out of print books on the Decorative Arts, Architecture, Modern Design, Gardens, Furniture, Illustration, and New York City, as well as occasional offerings of titles of exceptional importance, quality, rarity or simply because we think they are worth having. We are happy to perform searches or answer questions relating to our fields of interest and stock. Open by appointment. If you plan on visiting Manhattan's Upper East Side, and would like to view our stock in person, please contact us at 646-505-8524 to make an appointment.
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- VG/VG
- Very Good Condition book with a Very Good Condition dust jacket. Very Good Condition indicates a used book that does show some...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
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