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CROSBY, CARESSE The Passionate Years
The Ecco Press, 1953. Trade Paperback. Fair. A READING COPY ONLY! Spine leans right, spine creased, pages & covers toned, heavy foxing on page ridges & covers, address sticker on front free endpaper, cover edge wear, binding cracked. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "Mary Phelps Jacob (April 30, 1891 - January 24, 1970) was a New York socialite, who in 1910[1] invented the first modern brassiere to receive a patent and gain wide acceptance. Born on April 30, 1891,[1] in New Rochelle, New York, "Polly" was the daughter of a prominent New England family. Her ancestry included William Bradford, the Plymouth Colony's first governor, and Robert Fulton, developer of the steamboat. Polly's family was not fabulously rich, but her father had been raised, as she put it, "to ride to hounds, sail boats, and lead cotillions," and he lived high. The family had estates in New York, Long Island, and Watertown, Connecticut. She grew up, she later said, "in a world where only good smells existed." "What I wanted", she said of her privileged childhood, "usually came to pass." A childhood of privilege included private school, dancing school, and horse riding school. She was a rather uninterested student. In 1914 she attended a garden party hosted by the King of England.[1] Author Geoffrey Wolff wrote that for the most part Polly "lived her life in dreams." -- Wikipedia BACK COVER BLURB: "A mad, amusing, and revealing look at Paris in the twenties and at people Caresse Crosby knew -- Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edith Wharton, James Joyce, Picasso, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Lawrence of Arabia, and a host of others. In a single day, a visitor to the Crosby home outside of Paris might have found Salvador Dali at work in one room, Douglas Fairbanks Senior playfully swinging from the rafters, and D.H. Lawrence sunning himself by the pool.".
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