Born into an ancient family of the Russian military aristocracy, 97-year-old Erte tells of his first 19 years in St. Petersburg, his 22 years with Harper's Bazaar, and his experiences designing costumes and sets for Hollywood films. 80 halftones, 70 color plates.
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Born into an ancient family of the Russian military aristocracy, 97-year-old Erte tells of his first 19 years in St. Petersburg, his 22 years with Harper's Bazaar, and his experiences designing costumes and sets for Hollywood films. 80 halftones, 70 color plates.
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Fair. Used book-May contain writing notes highlighting bends or folds. Text is readable book is clean and pages and cover mostly intact. May show normal wear and tear. Item may be missing CD. May include library marks. Fast Shipping.
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Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 0525248080. Primarily associated with Harper's Bazaar Erte's striking and beautiful Art Deco illustrations graced the magazine's covers for 22 years; however, he also designed jewelery, costumes, interior, and was a set designer. Contains an index, bibliography, and an index of works in the rear. 156 illustrations: 74 in color, 82 in duotone. Bound in the publisher's original gray cloth covers, this is a nice clean, tight and unmarked book with no interior or exterior markings with the exception of a small black remainder stripe on the bottom edge near the spine. The dust jacket in similarly nice condition with just a little wear but no significant chips, tears, or markings. This oversize book will require additional postage for Priority and International delivery.; Color and B&W Illustrations and Photos; 4to 11"-13" tall; 239 pages.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book. Folio. Folio. 239 (1) pp, illus. First American Edition, 1989. Price clipped. Only the faintest edge wear dj, else, Pristine, no wear. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 10.5" x 13.75". Decorative-grey cloth with silver lettering to spine, and decorative endpapers. Illustrated dj in acetate protector. "The story of Erte's life is a chronicle of the worlds of fashion, theater, and elegance in the Twentieth Century. In My Life/My Art (for Erte his life is his art, and vice versa) he takes us through these worlds introducing us in words and photographs to the fabulous people he has known: Poret, Mata Hari, William Randolph Hearst, George White, Lucrezia Bori, Louis B. Mayer, Ramon Novarro, Joan Crawford, Claudette Colbert, Elsa Schiaparelli, Cecil Beaton, Diaghilev, Billy Rose, Barbra Streisand, and amny more. This volume absorbs and updates Erte's 1874 memoir Things I Remember and brings the story up to the present."