Brent Elliott

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

California

The History of the World's Favourite Flower in 40 Captivating Roses with Classic Texts and Rare Beautiful Prints

"This remarkable book reveals the history of the rose through the tale of 40 of the most popular and interesting species and hybrids. Arranged chronologically in the order in which a particular rose arrived in European gardens, the book also covers the history of the layout of rose gardens, discusses the various myths that have grown up about the history and introduction of roses and the confusion over the identity of roses in the Renaissance and looks at the role that roses play in the language of flowers . Each chapter features expert text by Brent Elliott, Historian at the RHS, and extracts from texts to be found in the Lindley Library. Each of the 40 roses is illustrated with extraordinarily beautiful images from the library."--Wheelers.co.nz.

The Rose

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Arthur M. Schlesinger

Metropolitan Museum of Art, The

Hamish Bowles

Rachael Lambert Mellon

Light tear on jacket. Beautiful timeless book

Selections from the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum

This illustrated volume celebrates the 40th anniversary of Jacqueline Kennedy's emergence as America's First Lady and explores her enduring global influence on style and fashion.

Jacqueline Kennedy: the White House Years

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Pamela Clarke Keogh

Tiny wear on outer jacket otherwise excellent condition

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)





Everyone, it seems, is a fan of Audrey's. She was Gigi, a princess, Holly Golightly, a nun, Maid Marian, even an angel. And we believed her in every role. But Audrey Hepburn was also one of the most admired and emulated women of the twentieth century, who encouraged women to discover and highlight their own strength. By example, she not only changed the way women dress--she forever altered the way they viewed themselves.

But Audrey Hepburn's beauty was more than skin deep. "You know the Audrey you saw onscreen Audrey was like that in real life, only a million times better," says designer Jeffrey Banks. For the first time, this style biography reveals the details--fashion and otherwise--that contributed so greatly to Audrey's appeal. Drawing on original interviews with Hubert de Givenchy, Gregory Peck, Nancy Reagan, Doris Brynner, and Audrey Wilder, as well as reminiscences of professional friends like Steven Spielberg, Ralph Lauren, noted Hollywood photographer Bob Willoughby, Steven Meisel, and Kevyn Aucoin, Audrey Style brings the Audrey her family and friends loved to life.

With more than ninety color and black-and-white photographs, many of which have never before been published, and original designer sketches from Edith Head, Hubert de Givenchy, Vera Wang, Manolo Blahnik, Alexander McQueen, and others, Audrey Style gives measure to the grace, humor, intelligence, generosity, and inimitable fashion sense that was Audrey Hepburn.

Audrey Style

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Marc Petitjean

Adriana Hunter

Perfect condition other than slightest smoke smudge on cover. Delightful book for fans of Frida and the Surrealist era in Paris

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

This intimate account offers a new, unexpected understanding of the artist’s work and of the vibrant 1930s surrealist scene. In 1938, just as she was leaving Mexico for her first solo exhibition in New York, Frida Kahlo was devastated to learn from her husband, Diego Rivera, that he intended to divorce her. This latest blow followed a long series of betrayals, most painful of all his affair with her beloved younger sister, Cristina, in 1934. In early 1939, anxious and adrift, Kahlo traveled from the United States to France—her only trip to Europe, and the beginning of a unique period of her life when she was enjoying success on her own. Now, for the first time, this previously overlooked part of her story is brought to light in exquisite detail. Marc Petitjean takes the reader to Paris, where Kahlo spends her days alongside luminaries such as Pablo Picasso, André Breton, Dora Maar, and Marcel Duchamp. Using Kahlo’s whirlwind romance with the author’s father, Michel Petitjean, as a jumping-off point, The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris provides a striking portrait of the artist and an inside look at the history of one of her most powerful, enigmatic paintings.

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The Rose

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Jacqueline Kennedy: the White House Years

Pamela Clarke Keogh

Audrey Style

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The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris

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The Rose

Arthur M. Schlesinger; Metropolitan Museum of Art, The; Hamish Bowles; Rachael Lambert Mellon

Jacqueline Kennedy: the White House Years

Pamela Clarke Keogh

Audrey Style

Marc Petitjean; Adriana Hunter

The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris

Joe David Brown

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