Carry Me! 1950's Lucite Handbags, an American Fashion, ACC Editions, 2009, HC, VG.
Carry Me! 1950's Lucite Handbags, an American Fashion, ACC Editions, 2009, HC, VG.
Carry Me! 1950's Lucite Handbags, an American Fashion, ACC Editions, 2009, HC, VG.
Carry Me! 1950's Lucite Handbags, an American Fashion, ACC Editions, 2009, HC, VG.
Carry Me! 1950's Lucite Handbags, an American Fashion, ACC Editions, 2009, HC, VG.

Carry Me! 1950's Lucite Handbags, an American Fashion, ACC Editions, 2009, HC, VG.

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Berkson, Janice, and Kevin Sharp. Suffolk, ACC Editions, 2008. 
English, Very Good, HC, 8vo, 10" x 10", 207 pp.
ISBN: 9781851495931

Black cloth over board, stamped silver lettering to front and spine, minor wear and lightening to tips, head, and tail, otherwise, sharp tips, tightly bound, and unmarked throughout. Very Good black pictorial dust jacket, featuring a 1953-54 clear triangle with multicolored rhinestone plaque handbag to front, 1953-57 bright yellow mother-of-pearl confetti handbag to back, red, gray, and white lettering to front, spine, and interior flaps, minor shelf wear to front and back, some wear to edges and tips, slight tear to head, otherwise, clean and intact. Protected in a paper-backed Mylar sleeve. [7] 207 pp., replete with over 170 full-color photographs by John Bigelow Taylor, Foreword by Kevin Sharp, Preface, three sections: "New York," "Wilardy," "Florida," and Acknowledgements. From inside dust jacket: "This book celebrates some of the most fantastic and desirable handbags of the 1950s. All are constructed of Lucite - and acrylic plastic - considered to be a radical and innovative substance at the time."