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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Yales University Press, London, 1987, first edition and a pre-publication review copy; 8vo, 165 x 240mm; pp xxx, 300, [301]; black cloth, spine gilt, pictorial dust wrapper, dw slightly scuffed but a very good copy; 20 photographic illustrations and a few line drawings in the text. . . . . Raised in the stultifying environment of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Van Vechten escaped by studying at the University of Chaicago and thereafter became known for a wide range of accomplishments - literary critic, music and dance reviewer, novelist, jazz enthusiast and commentator, artistic photographer and a promoter of the avant garde in a range of fields. He formed a close friendship with Gertrude Stein and became her literary executor, helping to bring into print her previously unpublished writings.…

First Edition. Photographs Fine copy in dust-wrapper.