Beauty in Exile: The Artists, Mideks, and Nobility Who Fled the Russian Revolution and Influenced the World of Fashion

New York: Harry N, Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 2000. Quarto (31.5cm); cream cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt and blind embossed to spine and front cover; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; 48pp; black-and-white photographic (halftones) illustrations to frontispiece and throughout. Remainder mark to upper edge of textblock, light rubbing to board edges, and tiny marginal mark to p.394; Very Good. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $60.00), with sticker residue to front panel, trivial surface wear, and creases to extremities; Very Good. Sections include "Russian Fashion During World War I and the Great Exodus", "The Tao House of Fashion", and "Russian Beauties of the 1930s and 1940s", with photographs throughout. [85138].