A Wonderful Time: An Intimate Portrait of the Good Life
by Aarons, Slim
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0060100168
- ISBN 13
- 9780060100162
- Seller
-
Madison, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper and Row, 1974. 250pgs.Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Embossed gilt titled blue cloth. Stated first edition, Author inscription and signature on the front flyleaf. The last page has paper loss running vertically down the inner hinge. The lower corner of the front panel is bumped. Unclipped pictorial jacket has a tiny hole on the upper edge, with light soiling and a couple of stubbles to the rear panel of the DJ, which is in a mylar sleeve. The book " captures magnificently the life of America's elite from coast to coast, in Bermuda, the Caribbean, and Acapulco. Drawing from thousands of pictures taken since World War II on assignments for 'Holiday', 'Town & Country', 'Harper's Bazaar', 'Life'. 'Vogue', 'Travel & Leisure', and other publications, Slim Aarons has put together the best of them - many never published before - with a narrative of his experiences and impressions while photographing American aristocrats on their estates and at play at their favorite resorts.. . Signed and Inscribed. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-/Very Good. Small Folio.
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- Bookseller
- The Chatham Bookseller, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 033202
- Title
- A Wonderful Time: An Intimate Portrait of the Good Life
- Author
- Aarons, Slim
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0060100168
- ISBN 13
- 9780060100162
- Publisher
- Harper and Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1974
- Size
- Small Folio
- Keywords
- Photography High Society Culture Sixties Bookfair19 Perry Bookfair23S Bill M. Bookfair24
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About The Chatham Bookseller, LLC
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