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DESIGNING MALE
by Greer, Howard
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/very good
- Seller
-
San Pedro, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1951. (1st Edition). Cloth. Good/very good. [iv], 310p. Endpapers toned, foxing to top page edges, cover cloth sunned, jacket has chips to corners. Hollywood fashion and costume designer chronicles his career beginning in Europe after serving in the First World War working for Paul Poiret and Molyneux. With his return to the United States in 1921, he became a costume designer for Famous Players Lasky, which became Paramount Studios, and became most notable for his glamorous wardrobes. When his contract ran out at Paramount in 1927, he opened Greer, Inc., his own couture house. His specialty was creating evening wear and cocktail dresses that he specifically designed to look good seated at a table. Greer never gave up his work with the motion picture studios, designing film wardrobes for those studios with no in-house designer. His celebrity clientele ranged from Theda Bara to Shirley Temple, with his career ranging from the 1920s and into the early 1960s. [Vintage Fashion Guild site] 7 leaves of b&w halftone photo plates and frontispiece. (8-1/2"x5-3/4")
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Details
- Bookseller
- Champ & Mabel Collectibles
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- H12584
- Title
- DESIGNING MALE
- Author
- Greer, Howard
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- (1st Edition)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1951
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Fashion Designers Costume Design Howard Greer
Terms of Sale
Champ & Mabel Collectibles
Check or money order in U.S. funds. Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover credit card payment accepted. Payment also accepted through PayPal.
Returns accepted if book is not as described.
All items subject to prior sale.
California residents add 9% sales tax or supply seller's permit number.
Gayle Williamson is the owner of Champ & Mabel Collectibles, which is registered with the State of California and City of Los Angeles and permitted by the Los Angeles Police Commission (LAPD). Champ & Mabel Collectibles can be contacted by mail at: P.O. Box 741, San Pedro, California 90733; by phone at 310.833.8629 (landline); by email at info@champandmabel.com.
About the Seller
Champ & Mabel Collectibles
Biblio member since 2007
San Pedro, California
About Champ & Mabel Collectibles
Champ & Mabel Collectibles has been selling secondhand books online since 1998.
We have a general collection of 20th and 21st century fiction and nonfiction with an emphasis on American history (focusing on California).
We have a general collection of 20th and 21st century fiction and nonfiction with an emphasis on American history (focusing on California).
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- Cloth
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- Sunned
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