Only the Best: A Celebration of Gift Giving in America

Book Description

New York: Harry N Abrams Inc, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. One corner very gently bumped, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ bright and clean. Brown cloth boards, gilt lettering, cream endpages, frontispiece. 4to. 216pp. Illus. (color and b/w plates). Indes. Text by Jill Spalding. Introduction by Letitia Baldrige Photography by Jesse Gerstein. Design by John Lynch. Focused on American givers/givees, it is an outstanding tribute to the art of elegant and imaginative gift giving. Remarkablely and touching gifts, romatic, friendly, and/or humorous, given by some of the major figures of the 19th and 20th century, are wonderfully captured in text and pictures. A near pristine copy.

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