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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Fine (-). Fifteenth Edition. (USA) 1st printing . No markings, Fine inabout Fine dust jacket. Hardcover, 340pp, index, lots of B&W photos; family trees to end papers. Intro by Louis Auchincloss. This i alook at the role that the Vanderbilt family played in the social life of New York City and of all the rural resorts and wtering places to which the wealthy of that period. Auchincloss compares them to the Medici of Florence, but as patrons of the arts, the Vanc=derbiltscertainly had their lapses [in taste}.Beauty can be lost even in a clutter of beauty". a heavy book. (4.0 JM 0321 Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" Tall.…