
Horst. Salute to the Thirties by Horst. Foreword by Janet Flanner.
Viking Press, Studio Book, 1971. First edition (unstated). Hardcover, ex-library with usual evidence, otherwise very good with new dust jacket protector. Dust jacket fine except spine label. Card pocket in back partially removed. Book of stunning celebrity portraits, including Hollywood movie stars, by Horst, who provides the Introduction. Notes, often lengthy, on the subjects of the 162 photographs by Valentine Lawford. Most photographs are by Horst with a few by George Hoyningen-Huene. Subjects include Gertrude Stein, Vicomtesse de Noailles, Eve Curie, Wanda Landowska, Maria Rasputin, Jean Cocteau, Maurice Ravel, Lotte Kenya, Kurt Weill, Yehudi Menuhin, Igor Stravinsky, Lily Pons, Arturo Toscanini, Grace Moore, Lotte Lehman, Lauritz Melchior, Marlene Dietrich, Carole Lombard, Greta Garbo, Edith Sitwell, Osbert Sitwell, Sybil Thorndike, Maurice Thorez, Leon Blum, Harry S. Truman, Noel Coward, Gertrude Lawrence, Mary Martin, Tallulah Bankhead, Ethel Waters, Raymond Massey, Kathari