Fine in a VG+ DJ that is price clipped. DJ has very minor tanning near top edge. ; Photography by Horst, Avedon, Penn, Beaton, Steichen. Uncommon and extremely sought after title; Stated First; Red cloth; Folio; DJ. Seller Inventory # 21047
Synopsis: New York: Doubleday, 1980. Elelphant folio [15x10½] 208 pp. Black and white photographs throughout. Cloth, jacket. First Edition. A magnificent collection of many of the 20th century's greatest fashion photographers (including Horst, De Meyer, Avedon, Beaton, Pen, and Steichen, as well as some interesting and bizarre paparazzi shots), selected and with a spell-binding text by Diana Vreeland. Now a classic in its genre. Condition: NF/VG; light yellowing to jacket spine and about a third of the front panel, light creasing, light bubbling at bottom front panel; light rubbing at bottom spine; near fine in very good or better jacket. LBB-E
About the Author:
Fashion legend Diana Vreeland was editor-in-chief of Vogue throughout the 1960s.
Christopher Hemphill is a New York-based writer.
Marc Jacobs is a highly influential fashion designer.
Title: Allure
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc., New York, NY
Publication Date: 1980
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Edition: First Edition.
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition. Rear board warped. Some dings to edges. Denting to front hinge. Edgewear to spine tips, joints. Tear seen at rear bottom joint with flap of fabric from turn-in to rear board. Yellowing to pages, mostly to margins. Soil, wear to textblock edges. DJ, covered with some soiled mylar that has been taped and we do not want to remove, appears to be in Good+/VG- condition: yellowing, edgewear, tiny tears, front flap that was price clipped with irregular cut across top width of flap. Due to weight and size of book international orders cannot be accepted. Seller Inventory # 5161
Book Description Hardcover. First edition. Near Fine (gift inscription front fep) in Near Fine dj (clip). Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1980. Hardcover. Stated first edition. 208 pgs : illustrations ; 39 cm. Seller Inventory # 6416
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st. 0385150482. Seller Inventory # 565575
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Cloth, folio. 1st edition. 208 pp. Red boards with gilt at spine & front. B&W plates, most full page. "A magnificent collection of many of the 20th century's greatest fashion photographers (including Horst, De Meyer, Avedon, Beaton, Pen, and Steichen, as well as some interesting and bizarre paparazzi shots), selected and with a spell-binding text by Diana Vreeland. Now a classic in its genre.". Seller Inventory # ABE-1691795004677
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Oversized gilt-titled cloth. PO gift inscription, slight insecting to cloth edges. Tight and square. The DJ in mylar is price- clipped with tiny tear to crown. The rear pastedown is a little scratched. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 208 pages. Seller Inventory # 46696
Book Description Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. First Edition. very good in good somewhat toned jacket. Book. Seller Inventory # 029356
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Hardbound in dust jacket. Minor tears & age toning to dust jacket, minor wear to board edges, otherwise very good. [Oversize. Contact for overseas shipping quote.]. Seller Inventory # 79915
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: g- to vg. First edition. 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. Seller Inventory # 48160
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Stated first edition. Very Good+ in like dust jacket. Red cloth boards with sharp corners. Previous owner bookplate on front pastedown, no other marks. Jacket with mild edge-wear including a single minute (one-sixteenth-inch) tear at rear flap fold. Light toning to top and bottom edges. Publisher's original $35 price intact on front flap. 208 pages. Seller Inventory # 43795
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardbound in dust jacket. 1st edition. Minor age toning and shelf wear to dust jacket. Some soiling and minor wear to corners of boards, otherwise very good. Interior clean and binding strong. [ Heavy. Contact for overseas shipping quote.]. Seller Inventory # 71685