"The Upper Crust: An Informal History Of New York's Highest Society" 1970 CHURCHILL, Allen D.D. Ryan w/ 71 tartans

w/ 71 tartans

LunsinghPitman Publishing Corporation10" x 8"

The book is perfectly relevant to today's wine lovers

A colour-plate of Historic Becher's Brook made especially for Polo Magazine by Paul Desmond Brown 1933 & pencil signed (LR) together with a horse head remarque To Tod and Ethel Very Sincerely Paul in the (LR) margin

leading to a cascade of fatal consequences

"The Upper Crust: An Informal History Of New York's Highest Society" 1970 CHURCHILL, Allen D.D. Ryan w/ 71 tartansCHURCHILL, Allen (INSCRIBED) on FFEP [290] pp. Prentice Hall, Inc. 1970 12 1 4" x 9 1 4" "In this gossipy, name filled and lavishly illustrated volume, Allen Churchill chronicles the families, fads, and fortunes that made New York, New York what it was. From the days of the English governors one of whom used to wear his wife's dresses to underscore his resemblance to Queen Anne New York's High Society has been an inexhaustible fount of glamour and