Description
Author: Patty Farmer
Publisher: Vantage Press, Inc.
Place: New York
Year: 2012
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Format: Hardcover with original dust jacket
Page Count: 222 pages
Condition: Near Fine in a Near Fine original dust jacket protected in removable archival Brodart. The book is clean, tight, and well preserved, with bright pages and no significant defects noted. The attractive illustrated jacket presents beautifully. Please review the photographs, which form part of the condition description.
DESCRIPTION
Step inside one of New York City’s most glamorous lost nightspots.
Located within the legendary Plaza Hotel, the Persian Room welcomed an extraordinary array of singers, musicians, comedians, dancers, and other entertainers between 1934 and 1975. In The Persian Room Presents: An Oral History of New York’s Most Magical Night Spot, Patty Farmer reconstructs that elegant era through firsthand recollections, historical photographs, illustrations, programs, advertisements, and memorabilia.
Farmer spent five years gathering memories from performers and others connected to the celebrated supper club. The resulting oral history brings back the Persian Room’s music, personalities, sophisticated audiences, and unmistakable sense of occasion.
Among the entertainers represented are Andy Williams, Julie Wilson, Lainie Kazan, Michelle Lee, Celeste Holm, Carol Lawrence, Tony Butala of the Lettermen, Barbara Van Orden, and many more.
Published by Vantage Press in 2012, this is the stated First Edition and first printing, confirmed by the complete number line ending in 1. Cover and interior illustrations are by Sujean Rim.
WHY THIS COPY IS SPECIAL
This is a clean, attractive first printing with its original illustrated dust jacket preserved in removable archival Brodart. Unlike inexpensive former-library, jacketless, or generically described online copies, this copy has been individually examined, accurately described, and photographed.
Its combination of Plaza Hotel history, New York nightlife, cabaret, Broadway, celebrity reminiscences, photographs, and vintage entertainment memorabilia gives it particular appeal as both a reference and a gift book.
WHY WE LOVE THIS BOOK
The Persian Room represented a vanished New York of evening gowns, orchestras, champagne, cabaret stars, and elegant supper-club entertainment. This beautifully presented oral history allows readers to experience that glamorous world through the people who were actually there.