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E-380: Duell, Sloan and Pearce. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1960. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Duell Sloan and Pearce. 1960. 122 pgs. First edition/First printing (stated on the verso). Signed and inscribed by the William Manville on the FFEP. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities.. No ownership marks present. Light offsetting present to the endpapers. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards have a scuff and a stain present to the rear board. An early book by famed book designer Brodovitch. "Saloon Society denizens live in a world where there's no tomorrow, where the jugs of bourbon pour like sunshine, where the cigarette smoke is thick as dreams, where one rockets through the heightened moments of life." La Dolce Vita in NYC--post-Beat, pre-60s, pre-Dylan, pre- Beatles --it's an odd juncture in the social life of the city, with the pre-war eminence-gris still making his hand felt in this book's… Read More