A Wonderful Time: An Intimate Portrait of the Good Life

Aarons, Slim

ISBN 10: 0060100168 / ISBN 13: 9780060100162

Published by Harper & Row, Publishers, 1974

About this Item

First edition (stated). N.d. [1974]. Small folio [35x27cm]. Unpaginated. Hardback in dust jacket. Publisher's blue cloth boards stamped in gilt to front and spine. Leaves slightly age-toned and a little wavy. Some foxing to first and last few leaves and a few spots throughout. A few brown spots to fore-edge of text block. Tail edge of last 8-10 leaves with some surface wear, as if they had been stuck together and then separated - a strip of 4mm at most. Jacket age-toned and slightly soiled; closed tears to tail of upper spine fold and head of upper flap fold. Minor loss to head of spine. A good copy of Slim Aaron's classic depiction of America's elite. Glamorous photographs of the rich having a wonderful time.

Seller Inventory # 901632

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Wonderful Time: An Intimate Portrait of the Good Life
• Publisher: Harper & Row, Publishers
• Publication Date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060100168
• ISBN 13: 9780060100162
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art & Photography

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Synopsis

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."