9780060100162 - Wonderful Time: An Intimate Portrait of the Good Life de Aarons, S. (20 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Missing DJ.

hardcover. Etat : Acceptable. Please see the condition note after this for details, if this is missing please consider Acceptable to mean poor quality that could include major staining, water damage, writing, missing dustjacket, etc etc. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.

Etat : Good. 1st edition. Cloth, dj, VG/G+. unpaginated [ approx 250pp ], colour & b/w illustrations throughout, spine & edge sunned dustjacket worn along the edges with a little loss & 2 repaired tears. Aaron's famous study work, which, in his own words was 'photographing attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places'. Slim Aarons [ 1916 - 2006 ] American photographer noted for his images of socialites, jet-setters and celebrities. In Alfred Hitchcock's film, Rear Window Jimmy Stewart's apartment is reputed to be based on Aarons' apartment. 1850 grams.

Etat : Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good hardcover in a Very Good dust jacket. First Edition, First Printing as stated. Overall, the book is bright and attractive. Faint foxing to the end pages, otherwise no major signs of wear or aging. The price-clipped dust jacket is worn at the corners and spine ends and lightly age darkened on the rear panel. Color photographs throughout.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. First Edition. :: Captures magnificently the life of America's elite from coast to coast, in Bermuda, the Caribbean, and Acapulco. :: Bound in publisher's navy-blue cloth, front board bears stamped title in gold. Title, author/photographer, and publisher lettered down spine. Folio (13 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches; 344 x 266 millimeters). Unnumbered pages. Condition: Very Good-, in a Good dust jacket. Boards of book are stained along upper edge and along lower edge of rear board. Bottom corners bumped. One small handwritten name on one of the pages - likely identifying an additional person in the photograph. Dust jacket is flawed - price-clipped, age-toned, stained, wrinkles to the clear-coat, and most notable - the upper edge has been trimmed at the top of the spine and at the hinges.

Soft cover. Etat : Fair. Fair condition. Clean pages, intact binding.

Hardbound. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good-. First Edition. Dust jacket is worn; 190 pages.

hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Large format hardcover first edition in lightly shelf worn price clipped jacket. No marks with foxing to top edge, half title and acknowledgements pages. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal.

Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. Photographs by Slim Aarons. (illustrateur). [1974]. First edition. Harper & Row. New York. [1974]. First edition. Hardback, large quarto; navy cloth-bound boards, dust jacket. [c.220 pages]. Colour and b&w photographs throughout. English. 345x270mm. 1.75kg. Near fine, in near fine dust jacket; slight browning to white areas of jacket and page edges, no tears, not price-clipped, no inscriptions; an excellent copy. Slim Aaron's classic work capturing the international elite at play in post-War America. A Wonderful Time brings together many pictures taken by Aarons for Vogue, Town & Country, Harper's Bazaar, Life, etc. and places them alongside his memories of photographing America's aristocrats. '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 Goldwater 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.' Beaux Books specialises in fine and rare books on art and culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. We welcome questions about our books and we are happy to provide any extra images. Buy with confidence from an experienced bookseller.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good hardcover in a Very Good dust jacket with mylar cover. First Edition as stated. Overall, the book is bright and attractive.Inscription from a previous owner on front end page, otherwise no major signs of wear or aging. The price-clipped dust jacket is worn at the corners and spine ends and lightly age darkened on the rear panel. Color photographs throughout.

Hardcover. Etat : new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

Hard cover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 250 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Very good in very good dust jacket.

Hard cover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 250 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Fine in fine dust jacket. Fine in a fine dust jacket in mylar.

hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. Publisher: Harper & Row, New York, 1974. NEAR FINE folio size hardcover in gilt-stamped, dark blue, cloth-covered boards in a NEAR FINE mylar-protected, price-clipped dust-jacket. , Lavishly illustrated wit photos in color and black and white. A tor de force. First Edition, First Printing.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good-. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. 250pgs.Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Embossed gilt titled blue cloth. Stated first edition, Author inscription and signature on the front flyleaf. The last page has paper loss running vertically down the inner hinge. The lower corner of the front panel is bumped. Unclipped pictorial jacket has a tiny hole on the upper edge, with light soiling and a couple of stubbles to the rear panel of the DJ, which is in a mylar sleeve. The book " 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. Size: Small Folio. Signed and Inscribed By Author. Book.

Etat : Very Good. Very Good+ in a Very Good dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is in very nice overall condition with two closed edge-tears (about 1" each), and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); The blue cloth-covered boards are clean and bright with "staight" edge-corners and the book title printed in gold on the front cover and spine is bright with no losses; Unblemished textblock edges; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine;; Extra-Large Format (Folio, 12.75" - 14" tall); Jacket photo of a waterfront estate, and title in black lettering; 1974, Harper and Row Publishing; 190 pages; "A Wonderful Time: An Intimate Portrait of the Good Life," by Slim Aarons.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. First Edition. 1 vol., Unpaged.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Stated first edition is clean and tight with a lovely inscription including modernist sketch to the flyleaf. Price clipped jacket shows very light shelf wear oversized and overweight. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal.

Hardcover. 1st edition. 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.