Burden, Shirley
The Vanderbilts in my life. A personal memoir.
New Haven & New York, Ticknor & Fields 1981.
Reference: 07973
Price: £10 [convert currency]
Full Description
Folio. 143+(1)pp, colour & b+w photo text ills. Publisher’s cloth, in dustwrapper. Faint discolouration on upper area of back cover of binding. Roderick Gradidge’s copy.
A photographic memoir of the Vanderbilt family by the photographer Shirley Burden, the great-great-grandson of the steamboat and railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt. With photographic illustrations of some of the family homes, including 640 Fifth Avenue in New York, and Florham in New Jersey.