"Adirondack Tales" 1939 EARLY, Eleanor Interior Decoration

"Adirondack Tales" 1939 EARLY, Eleanor Interior DecorationEARLY, Eleanor [247] pp. Little, Brown and Company 1939 First Edition 6 3 4" x 4 1 2" Jacket drawing and decorations by Virginia Grilley Legends, anecdotes and history of the old days in the Adirondack and Catskill Mountains of New York, with contemporary travel notes, including information of the activities and life at Lake Placid. Early discusses Washington Irving and the legend of Rip Van Winkle and writes about several figures who had visited or

and timeless interiors

descriptive volume on the daily outdoors life of Parisians at the turn of the century

Lane was one of the subjects of Andy Warhol's Screen Tests (where

a book club edition was issued simultaneously by the same publisher together with the Science Fiction Book Club

who later named his champion horse Mill Reef for the club

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being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism by his mentor

He was also an important and pioneering fashion historian described as "the man in England who made the study of costume respectable"

Volume 3 contains lots 1790-3111 of the same

this important monograph reconstructs Mollino's work through more than eighty interiors and pieces of furniture spanning his career

a style book featuring photographs of her Beverly Hills mansion and herself dressed in evening gowns

It is at once a fascinating glimpse at the homes of some of America's wealthiest families and a complete compendium of the architects who designed these breathtaking houses