Allure

Vreeland, Diana; Christopher Hemphill. Allure. New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1980. First edition. Elephant Folio (15 1/4 x 11″). 208pp. Original bright red cloth with gilt initials on cover, gilt lettering on spine, in original dustjacket with black lettering on spine. Photo-illustrated endpapers. Small frontispiece photograph. “The thousand words a picture is said to be worth are perhaps an unreliable measure of the impact Diana Vreeland’s spell-binding commentary on the photographs she has selected and arranged with such extraordinary effect in Allure. For they seem to liberate the long and well-stocked memory of a woman who knows everybody… is known by everybody, has opinions on almost everything…” (Publisher). Extraordinary collection of photographs with text by Vreeland and Hemphill. Pasted to inside front cover a label of 1983 Rodeo Drive International Gala honoring Diana Vreeland. Photo credits at rear. Dustjacket with light wear along edges, sunned along edges and price-clipped. Three interior pages with light foxing and the balance of pages in very good condition. DJ in good-, interior in good condition. g- to vg. Hardcover. (48160) $55