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Very hard to find and selling for over $100 by rare book dealers, this was a real find at a Park Avenue NYC penthouse. Full of photographs of famous celebrities, historical figures, and world events, this 1982 first edition publication of the hardback coffee table book Vanity Fair - Photographs of An Age 1914 - 1936 is full of superb photographs by the world's most famous photographers. Photographs are grouped according to decade, and there aren't too many famous figures you'll miss in this wonderful collector classic including artists, movie stars, authors, actors, political figures, sports figures, architects, and more. Photographs include Greta Garbo, Pablo Picasso, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, Charlie Chaplin, Jean Harlow, Katharine Hepburn, Charles Boyer, Cary Grant, Gary Cooper, Eugene O'Neill, Albert Einstein, Marlene Dietrich, Igor Stravinsky, D. H. Lawrence, Fred Astaire, James Cagney, Ernest Hemingway, George Bernard Shaw, James Joyce, Claude Monet, Walter Gropius, Charles Lindbergh, Joe Louis, and many more. Vanity Fair photographers who shot these photos include Edward Steichen, Malcolm Arbuthnot, Arnold Genthe, Baron Gayne De Meyer, Imogen Cunningham, Cecil Beaton, James Abbe, Nickolas Muray, and Man Ray. Published by Clarkson N. Potter Publishers with an introduction by John Russell and edited by Diana Edkins Richardson, this book which originally sold for $40 all the way back in 1982 is in excellent condition, includes the original dust jacket, and has an handwritten inscription on the inside front cover "To Bonnie & Ken, Merry Christmas '83, Carol." /65

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