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[New York:: Fashion Academy, , 1933].. original cloth-backed boards with enbossed gilt label on front panel, in tattered glassine wrapper.. Minor rubbing and wear to boards at extremities; glassine tattered; very nice.. 8vo,. With colored line drawings throughout and one tipped-in plate. A lovely announcement of the Fashion Academy's programs in Fashion and Costume Design, etc.

NY: Thomsen-Ellis Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn at corners and spine.. 1938. Hardcover. Quite an elegant little Art Deco number with wood grain patterned paper, cloth spine, and debossed copper foil plaque on front boards. Gilt-accented illustrated endpapers and tipped-in frontispiece illustration. 19 additional color pochoir illustrations. The Fashion Academy was in operation from 1920-50 and run by Emil Alvin Hartman and his wife, Ann Hartman. In 1930, the Fashion Academy was housed on the 43rd floor in the newly built Rockefeller Plaza tower at Rockefeller Center in the heart of midtown Manhattan. The book speaks only of female students and describes coursework to educate them in various aspects of the fashion industry. "There is no more highly esteemed --no more lucrative--no more modern or progressive profession than that of FASHION." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 48 pages .