When We Were Three. The Travel Albums of George Platt Lynes, Monroe Wheeler, and Glenway Wescott 1925-1935

Author: Pohorilenko, Anatole; James Crump (Texts)
Title: When We Were Three. The Travel Albums of George Platt Lynes, Monroe Wheeler, and Glenway Wescott 1925-1935
Publication: Santa Fe, New Mexico: Arena Editions, 1998
Edition: First edition

Description: Hardcover. Small Quarto. 299 [1]pp. Original tan cloth with blind-stamped Fleur-de-lis on cover, purple lettering on spine in original photo-illustrated dustjacket with purple lettering on spine. Illustrated endpapers. Purple Fleur-de-lis on half-title. Title stretched over five pages. Printed to heavy paper by EBS in Verona, Italy. Profusely illustrated with mostly sepia-toned photographs throughout. "The travel album of photographer George Platt Lynes, publisher Monroe Wheeler, and writer Glenway Wescott provides illuminating documents of the American expatriate years. "Together, this extraordinary ménage-à-trois spent the heady inter-war period frequenting Paris, Villefranche-sur-Mer, and other European cities, meeting up with such lively personalities as Thornton Wilder, Jean Cocteau, Katherine Anne Porter, Man Ray, René Crevel, and Christian Bérard. Fine condition.

Seller ID: 55980

Subject: Photography


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