Perfumes (5 results)

Condition: Good. Folded Card 9.5 x 16.8 cm Very Good. Scarce.

Wraps. Condition: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Format is approximately 9.125 inches by 12 inches. 28 pages plus covers. Tassels. One sheet of Donors and Gifts laid in. Worn and soiled. This is a program from a benefit event held in the Everglades Club March 1961. This was a benefit event held in the Everglades Club. The event was sponsored by Baron and Baroness W. Langer von Landendorff of Eyvan Perfumes, Inc. This event has Palm Beach's Great Ladies modeling replicas of gowns worn by First Ladies from 1860-1961. Prizes for the event included a 1961 Lincoln Continental. Gold and diamond jewelry, and a week in Las Vegas. There are 13 full color images of the "First Ladies". 9" x 12" and 28 pages. Numerous pages of text and 2 full pages of advertising for Great lady Perfume by Evyan. The outer covers do have some discoloration. Internally good. Anything original from the Everglades Club is rare! The story goes that the Austrian baron, who immigrated to the U.S. during World War II, founded Evyan perfumes with his first wife, Evelyn Diane Westall. The war weighed on French perfume houses, and Langer was a chemist and his wife a savvy marketer. Their company made them millionaires as women across America bought into the brand, which the couple turned into a lifestyle (their home echoed their perfume's packaging, and the Evyan logo was featured on their mausoleum). Popular fragrances included Golden Shadows, the actual name of their Westport, Connecticut home, and White Shoulders, later taken over by Elizabeth Arden. Dr. Langer, who had a doctorate in chemistry, worked in his field in Austria before coming to the United States. Paris Singer and his good friend, the architect Addison Mizner, were visiting Palm Beach in the spring of 1918. Singer decided to build a hospital with Mizner as the architect. Singer had already built three hospitals in France for the wounded. It was during World War I when only war-related buildings could be built. When its construction began in July 1918, it was to be called the Touchstone Convalescent Club, and it was intended to be a hospital for the wounded of World War I. But the war ended a few months later, and it changed into a private club. By November 1918 seven residential villas and a medical center had been built on the north side of Worth Avenue, across from the main building. Singer purchased laboratory and surgical equipment and fittings for an operating room. Singer sent out as many as 300,000 invitations to eligible Army and Navy officers, who had to be screened and had to be able to pay their own room and board. However, most former soldiers wanted to go home. The medical equipment was donated to a hospital in West Palm Beach. There was a main building, eight separate villas, tennis courts, a parking garage across the street, and a yacht basin. The club opened on 25 January 1919. Paris Singer was the President of the club and he decided who could become a member. For its second season in 1920, Mizner supervised the construction of a nine-hole golf course and the landscaping of the club's 60 acres. He also built Via Mizner, an addition on Worth Avenue with eleven apartments and sixteen shops. Mizner's design for the Everglades Club was widely considered to be the biggest success of his career." It helped establish a new architectural style for Florida. In the club's first season Mizner received four architectural commissions. He went on to become America's foremost society architect of his era. Singer began his club with twenty-five charter members. Two years later, the membership was closed at 500 members. Eliza Osgood Vanderbilt Webb (1860-1936) was one of its earliest female members.

Thick 8vo. xvi, 570 pp., plus 6 pp. publisher's ads. With 144 text woodcut engraved illustrations, diagrams. Maroon-coloured publisher's cloth, embossed borders on covers, gilt lettering on spine (minor sunning to spine, edgewear, dustsoiling to upper fore-edge, slightly shaken), still VG copy from the library of James Warne Chenhall (d. 1914), perhaps best remembered as the engineer who oversaw the construction and fabrication of the Anaconda Smelting Works in the Montana Territory in 1883 in the U.S., w/ ownership stamp on verso of ffep. First edition of this noted and exhaustive work on preparation and manufacturing of a variety of oils, fats, butters, and waxes from animals and vegetables, including explanations of a myriad of uses for beeswax, cooking oils, soaps for health & hygiene, a myriad of oils for uses in perfumes and cosmetics, and more. Wright (1844-1894) was the founder of the Royal Institute of Chemistry, and perhaps best remembered as the first to synthesize heroin in 1874.

Condition: Fine. Number of books: 1.

Paris, Editions Votre Beauté, 1987. 4vo, 99 pp., illustrated original cloth. Many b/w and colours illsutrations. Texte in English. Rare.* Voir photographies / See pictures. * Membre du SLAM et de la LILA / ILAB Member. La librairie est ouverte sur rendez-vous.