A Wonderful Time : An Intimate Portrait of the Good Life

Aarons, Slim

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ISBN 10: 0060100168 ISBN 13: 9780060100162

Published by Harper & Row, New York, 1975

Language: English

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Pictorial dj; navy blue clotj covers, gilt lettering. Approximately 250 pages : illustrations. Captures the lives of America's elite from coast to coast. Picures are bold and beautiful (if not pretentious). Contents: Vermont -- Boston -- Newport -- The bedroom communities of New York -- New York -- Bermuda -- Baltimore, Washington, and Virginia -- Palm Beach -- The Bahamas -- New Orleans -- Grosse Pointe -- Jamaica -- Chicago -- The Southwest -- Aspen and Vail -- San Francisco -- Beverly Hills -- Southern California -- Acapulco. G+/G, dj shows wear and has tears at spine and edges nad soiling along edges. Covers and pages are clean and tight. May have some foxing on text block but does not creep into pages.

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Title

A Wonderful Time : An Intimate Portrait of the Good Life

Publisher

Harper & Row, New York

Publication Date

1975

Language

English

ISBN 10

0060100168

ISBN 13

9780060100162

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st edition.

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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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