Allure.

VREELAND, Diana [Jack Lemmon].

$850.00

Item Number: 138311

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1980.

First edition of this classic work which features images such luminaries as Maria Callas, Gertrude Stein, and Marilyn Monroe shot by photographers such as Man Ray, Cecil Beaton, and Richard Avedon. Quarto, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated throughout. Association copy, boldly inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page to actor Jack Lemmon and his wife, “Felicia and Jack all the best Diana Vreeland 1980.” Jack Lemmon was an actor who starred in over sixty films and was nominated for an Academy Award eight times, winning twice, and received many other accolades, including six Golden Globe Awards (counting the honorary Cecil B. DeMille Award), two Cannes Film Festival Awards, two Volpi Cups, one Silver Bear, three BAFTA Awards, and two Emmy Awards. In 1988, he was awarded the American Film Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the American cinema. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Written with Christopher Hemphill.

Legendary fashion maven Diana Vreeland at the urging of her editor Jackie authored a classic volume in the 1980s on the quality of "allure" in fashion and in life. Throughout Allure, Vreeland lends her famous knack for turning a phrase to an astonishing array of fashion, celebrity, and fine art photographs.