Elegant Wits and Grand Horizontals: A Sparkling Panorama of "La Belle Epoque": Its Gilded Society, Irrepressible Wits and Splendid Courtesans

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962.

Price: $40.00

Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated with black and white photographic plates. Octavo. xvii, 262pp. Plates lightly toned in the top margins creating thin lines on the topedge, near fine in a very good dust jacket with modest edgewear, and a tanned spine. Inscribed by the author on half-title: "For Arnold - With affection - Cornelia." Possibly referring to Arnold Weissberger, an entertainment lawyer known for throwing parties for A-list celebrities.

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Item #470251 Elegant Wits and Grand Horizontals: A Sparkling Panorama of "La Belle Epoque": Its Gilded Society, Irrepressible Wits and Splendid Courtesans. Cornelia Otis SKINNER.
Elegant Wits and Grand Horizontals: A Sparkling Panorama of "La Belle Epoque": Its Gilded Society, Irrepressible Wits and Splendid Courtesans