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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Octavo. First/first. Complete number string. In dustjacket. Black cloth spine & black paper boards with stamped gold lettering along spine.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 420 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Condizione: Gut. 384 Seiten Very good copy with small signs of wear, decent light traces. - With a booklet providing the german translation. - Divine decadence, darling," breathes Liza Minnelli in recommending the motto of her Berlin nightclub in Bob Fosse's Cabaret. The very word "divine" seems to summon the world of Evelyn Waugh and his "Bright Young Things," dancing until dawn and frittering thei brittle lives away on the inventions of transient pleasure. "Oh, Nina, what a lot of parties!" That the encapsulating observation in Waugh's Vile Bodies, a novel where beneath the dying strains c the light music you can, as with Cabaret, feel the Second World War coming on. Even in The Grea Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald manages a hint of the sinister undertone of the Jazz Age. "Yellow cock tail music," he called it, in one of the most arresting images of the period. And when he referre to his protagonists as "careless people," he didn't mean carefree. He meant that they didn't min about anyone else. The association between luxury and decadence, and the punishment of these by disaster, is a almost automatic one in our culture. Marie Antoinette maintains a sumptuous court while all th while the fires of resentment are being stoked to white heat. A band plays on the Titanic as th gowns and white ties perform their elegant combinations. The nobles of St. Petersburg look dow from their brilliantly lit windows and fail to see the snarling hatred that is gathering in the dar ness. The hedonism of Weimar morphs into the grin on a suppurating corpse. Or as Hilaire Bell once put it about pre-war England: "When they married and gave in marriage / They danced at t County Ball / And some of them kept a carriage. / And the flood destroyed them all." There are certain crucial dates that encapsulate this sense of impending doom and inescapal nemesis. The year 1914 is one such: the bitter storm that put an abrupt end to what Edwardi England called "the long garden party." The year 1939 is yet another. In September of that ye W. H. Auden was in a gay bar in New York, brooding on the evil Europe he had left behind a saying sarcastically of those around him that for them: "The lights must never go out, the mu must always play." / CONTENTS -- -- - FOREWORD -- -- GRAYDON CARTER -- -- DIVINE DECADENCE CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS -- -- THE PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPH IN THE MODERN AGE TERENCE PEPPER -- -- A NEW MAGAZINE FOR A NEW AGE -- -- DAVID FRIEND -- -- THE PORTRAITS 1913-2008 -- -- CONTRIBUTORS TO THE JAZZ AGE VANITY FAIR, 1913-36 -- -- TWENTY-FIVE THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THE JAZZ AGE VANITY FAIR, 1913-3 -- -- VANITY FAIR COVER SUBJECTS, 1983-2008 -- -- OUR OFFICE: A HATE SONG-AN INTIMATE GLIMPSE OF VANITY FAIR-EN FAMILLE BY DOROTHY PARKER -- -- PICTURE CREDITS -- -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- -- INDEX. ISBN 9783829604000 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 3314 Orig.- Lw.; Orig.-Schutzumschlag.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 2008 1st ed. 383pp. illus. hardback folio: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover. An enormous, magnificent volume of art photography portraits covering 95 years by such masters as Edward Steichen, Cecil Beaton, Annie Leibovitz, et al. Owing to its size the book cannot be shipped internationally. Extra shipping charges will apply.