"The Deb's Dictionary" 1931 HERFORD, Oliver Valentino

"The Deb's Dictionary" 1931 HERFORD, Oliver ValentinoHERFORD, Oliver w 87 illustrations J. B. Lippincott Company 1931 First Edition 8" x 5 1 2" VG G Scroll Down for (13) Additional Scans: The Debs Dictionary is a charming satire of flapper life by Oliver Herford, the author of Sea Legs, a similar book recently featured in this blog. Deb was a 1920s slang term for debutante, and Herfords dictionary skewers the pretensions and behavior of young upper class men and women and the popular culture of the Jazz

King Edward VII

Sz: 34"L x 5"H

His private collection includes works by Rossetti

he lived in Prague

for the New York institution of Macy's department store

"Beaton in the Sixties: More Unexpurgated Diaries" is a 2003 book edited by Hugo Vickers

Comic foray into "the wisecracking

*Drumtop (Lemon) Silk Shade Sold Separately*

luxury and quality

and the passage of time

1963-64 Edition

The collection of playing cards that he built up with his wife Mary Flagler Cary is now housed at the Beinecke Library in Yale