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FASHION – Group of 15 books on fashion. 20th–21st centuries.

From the private library of Mica and Ahmet Ertegun, a collection of 15 works from the the world of fashion.

In the words of Annette de la Renta, ‘Mica never puts a wrong foot forward. She has the most refined eye.’ Mica Ertegun’s style was no doubt the epitome of this refinement. Teaming up with Vogue editor Chessy Rayner to was their renowned interior design firm MAC II in 1967, Mrs Ertegun was at the centre of New York’s fashion scene from her earliest days in Manhattan. And thirty years later in 1997, a quintessential selection of her gowns was accepted by the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the permanent collection of their unrivalled Costume Institute. The present collection of works is a tribute to Mica Ertegun’s connexions across the fashion world, from presentation copies from André Leon Talley to Mica’s own archive of early Minotaure and Verve issues.

Verve, nos. 1–2 (1937–1940). 2 vols., eight consecutive issues, original covers, colour and black-and-white plates. Uniformly bound in pictorial textile cloth.

Minotaure, nos. 1–13 (1933–1939). 2 vols., complete run of all thirteen issues, original covers, colour and black-and-white plates. Uniformly bound in textile cloth.

Vogue: Book of Fashion Photography, 1919–1979. Edited by Polly Devlin. Introduction by Alexander Liberman. Inscribed by Liberman to Mica and Ahmet Ertegun.

André Leon Talley. Little Black Dress. New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2012. Inscribed by Talley to Mica Ertegun.

Giancarlo Giammetti. Private. New York: Assouline, 2013.

André Leon Talley. Oscar de la Renta: His Legendary World of Style. Foreword by Anna Wintour. New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2015. Inscribed by Talley to Mica Ertegun.

And nine additional texts. Sold as a group not subject to return.
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