Vanity Fair: Selections From America's Most Memorable Magazine: A Cavalcade of the 1920s and 19

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Vanity Fair was unique among magazines, the first - and doubtless the last - of its kind. From 1914 to 1936, under the stewardship of Frank Crowninshield, a man of imagination and of impeccably taste, it carried on into a harsher age the last vestige of Edwardian elegance and was at the same time worldly and witty in a manner all its own. This volume represents a lovingly selected bill-of-fare of the best of each year's articles and stories, poems and features and an abundance of unrivaled photographs, paintings and caricatures. The text includes 141 articles short stories, poems and features and 544 pictures of, by, or about the "greats" in literature, the theatre, Hollywood, art, music, sports, public life and society high and low.

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327 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1,1960

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Format: 327 pages, Hardcover
Published: December 3, 1970 by The Viking Press
ISBN: 9780670743148
ASIN: 0670743143
Language: English

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ImmortalDao

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April 17,2025

Amazing selection, and even includes a short story by Colette! There's also a beautiful spread on Raoul Dufy that I enjoyed. I was glad to see people of colour included within, notably Josephine Baker and Paul Robeson.

My favourite bit was this with Anna de Noailles:

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