Cowles, Fleur (Ed.); Offergeld, Robert; et al. — Flair: Annual 1953

Cowles Magazines, Inc, 1953. Hardcover. Quarto. Hardcover. Red cloth with gilt motif/die-cut boards; gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated red end papers (by Federico Pallavicini, who designed the book). 227 pages full of every kind of illustration, including booklets, images hidden behind paper flaps, gatefolds, color illustrations, bw images, etc. A fabulously entertaining romp through travel, Americana, art, communications, sentiment, and more: Rudolf Bing and the Met (Opera) by Virgil Thomson; The Public Life of Walter Winchell; The Great Paris Polyglot; In Praise of Sentiment by Ruthven Todd; The Flower of Flowers by Katherine Anne Porter; Place Vendome; London; New York by Saul Steinberg; Sears and Roebuck; Tamayo; Mimicry in Nature by Salvador Dali; and ending with The Door of Paradise (Ghiberti) by Jean-Louis Vaudoyer. The follower of the defunct Flair Magazine, by the same company. VG .