Slim Aarons A WONDERFUL TIME Photography of the Rich and their Luxurious Lives

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First Edition of Slim Aarons' book of photographs of the wealthy and famous living in luxury. Aarons, Slim. A Wonderful Time: An Intimate Portrait of the Good Life New York: Harper and Row, 1974 Stated First Edition From the jacket: "A Wonderful Time captures magnificently the life of America's elite from coast to coast, in Bermuda, the Caribbean, and Acapulco...Here are the Cushings of Newport, the Fords of Grosse Pointe, and the Rockefellers of New York;here are the kings and queens of Beverly Hills playing croquet, the Cabots sailing off Boston's North Shore, and Barry Goldwater on the range in Arizona." "A Wonderful Time is a book about Snowmass, Tom Watson, Bermuda, Nonie Phipps, San Francisco, Harold Vanderbilt, Newport, Cee Zee Guest, Palm Springs, Commander Whitehead, New York, Lilly Pulitzer, New Orleans, T.S. Eliot...the The Rockefellers, The King Ranch, Merle Oberon, Sugarbush, Cecil Beaton...The Duchess of Windsor, Palm Beach, Eva Gabor...Dallas, Peter Pulitzer, The Myopia Hunt Club, Dolly Fritz and a lot of other people having a wonderful time." Condition: Quite Good with small abrasion to bottom edge of cover, small bump to bottom board, slight age toning, pages slightly moisture rippled, bumped slightly at corner, in good jacket with several small tears and small chips to lower jacket, along with tears at crown read more