Paris Was Yesterday, 1925-1939, Gift Inscription to Elsa Schiaparelli
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[Ex Libris Elsa Schiaparelli] Flanner, Janet. Paris Was Yesterday, 1925-1939. First Edition. 1972. Book is in very good condition; dust jacket is in very good minus condition. Includes third party gift inscription, “for Mme. Schiaparelli—with best wishes for 1973, Michael & Arianne Batterberry.” Laid in is a postcard from them addressed to Mme. Schiaparelli at 22 rue de Berri.
This book excerpts Janet Flanner’s “Letter from Paris” columns published in The New Yorker. Schiaparelli was both a friend and occasional subject for Flanner, so it would have been an appropriate volume for Schiap’s library, particularly considering these years were the best of Schiap’s career. The Batterberrys were the founders of Food & Wine, and they wrote about their friend Elsa Schiaparelli in their 1977 book Fashion, The Mirror of History.
“In Paris, where entertaining has long been an art—and was, as much as war or wit, one of the civilizing French forces in Europe—parties have always been taken seriously, even by those who weren’t invited.”
This book excerpts Janet Flanner’s “Letter from Paris” columns published in The New Yorker. Schiaparelli was both a friend and occasional subject for Flanner, so it would have been an appropriate volume for Schiap’s library, particularly considering these years were the best of Schiap’s career. The Batterberrys were the founders of Food & Wine, and they wrote about their friend Elsa Schiaparelli in their 1977 book Fashion, The Mirror of History.
“In Paris, where entertaining has long been an art—and was, as much as war or wit, one of the civilizing French forces in Europe—parties have always been taken seriously, even by those who weren’t invited.”
---Janet Flanner
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