"Pleasure Pets" 1929 BAILY, Francis Evans Oliver Messel

"Pleasure Pets" 1929 BAILY, Francis Evans Oliver MesselBAILY, F. E.[314] pp. Cassell and Company, Ltd19297. 75" x 5. 25"Cassell and Company. London. 1929. First edition. From the library of Giuseppe Orlando, with his bookplate and shelf stamp to front endpaper and his contemporary ownership inscription in ink to title page. Hardback; brown cloth bound boards, dust jacket. A novel for the Bright Young Thing, with a striking Art Deco dust jacket. The blurb reads 'A vivid story of the hectic Society life of

Among his best-known designs are his modernist Glass House in New Canaan

American Vogue's creative director Grace Coddington

their people and his wartime experiences

Each interior celebrates opulence

not only is soundly instructive

"Climbing from cash register to the social register

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the liberation of Paris

Provenance: Sold at Sotheby's London July 7

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weaving Lichtenstein himself into an art historical narrative

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