Book Description: New York: Macmillan, (1973)., 1973. . Revised edition. 8vo, cloth, xii,255 pages including index. Annotated and with some corners turned. Good in good dustwrapper with price torn off. Binding is hardback with dustwrapper. Bookseller Inventory # 361351
Book Description: Random House, Canada, 1971. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Black & White Photographs (illustrator). 6.5 X 9.5 " 309 Pages. Jacket has repairs. This entertaining book is a compendium of glamorous gossip and social hsitory, as well as an inside look at the development of American taste. Joseph Purtell describes the old New York of the early nineteenth century where Charles Tiffany has the wit to open his small store next to the most fashionable emporium in town. He was a gifted businessman with a keen sense of aesthetic values that gave a growing nation a sense of elegance and taste. One of the most interesting chapters of the book deals with son Louis Comfort Tiffany, deisgner of the lamps, vases and glass that have become so fashionable and so valuable today. It is a fabulous story. Bookseller Inventory # 40399
Book Description: Vanity Fair, London, 1894. Book Condition: Fine. Guth (illustrator). Original Ed. 15"x10". Alphonse de Rothschild cartoon Vanity Fair.Men of the Day no.597.Sept.20th l894.Of Jewish interest/financial interest. Also separate sheet giving data about Alphonse. Coloured Paper. Bookseller Inventory # 000360