A Wonderful Time: An Intimate Portrait of the Good Life

Slim Aarons

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ISBN 10: 0060100168 ISBN 13: 9780060100162

Published by Harper and Row Publishing, 1974

Language: English

Condition: Very Good Hardcover

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Very Good+ in a Very Good dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is in very nice overall condition with two closed edge-tears (about 1" each), and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); The blue cloth-covered boards are clean and bright with "staight" edge-corners and the book title printed in gold on the front cover and spine is bright with no losses; Unblemished textblock edges; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine;; Extra-Large Format (Folio, 12.75" - 14" tall); Jacket photo of a waterfront estate, and title in black lettering; 1974, Harper and Row Publishing; 190 pages; "A Wonderful Time: An Intimate Portrait of the Good Life," by Slim Aarons. Seller Inventory # SKU-0457AA02701302

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Title: A Wonderful Time: An Intimate Portrait of ...

Publisher: Harper and Row Publishing

Publication Date: 1974

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

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From the front flap of this 190 page book: "'A Wonderful Time' 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. Here are the Cushings of Newport, The Fords of Grosse Pointe, and the Rockefellers of New York; here are the kings and queens of Beverly Hills playing croquet, the Cabots sailing off Boston's North Shore, and Barry Goldwarer on the range in Arizona. Here are the Whitneys entertaining on Long Island, the Armours in their pool in Lake Forest, the Klebergs on their Texas ranch. and the scions of Palm Beach, San Francisco, and New York having a wonderful time." And from the rear cover: "'A Wonderful Time' is a book about Snowmass, Tom Watson, Nonie Phipps, Harold Vanderbilt, CeeZee Guest, Commander Whitehead, Lilly Pulitzer, New Orleans, T.S. Eloit, Jamaica, Minnie Cushing, Washington, Damon Gadd, Mrs. Atwater Kent, the Rockefellers, The King Ranch, Merle Oberon, Sugarbush, Cecil Beaton, Scottsdale, Brenda Frazier, Baltimore, Angie Duke, Palm Beach, Eva Gabor, Acapulco, Burl Ives, the Duchess of Windsor, La Jolla, Peter Widener, Babe Paley, Nassau, Roger Lion Gardiner, Mary Hemingway, Stowe, Mike Phipps, Bailey's Beach, Gloria Guinness, The Exumas, Herb Caen, Romanoff's, Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, Jock Whitney, The Bath and Tennis Club, Mary Martin, Aspen, Truman Capote, Hobe Sound, Cobina Wright, Howard Hughes, The Waldorf, Fleur Cowles, Peter Pulitzer, The Myopia Hunt Club, Dolly Fritz, and a lot of other people having a wonderful time."

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