DIARY OF AN ART DEALER: With an Introduction by Sir Herbert Read.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1966). First U.S. edition, translated from the French by John Rosenberg. Mild fading on spine that has bowed inward slightly, light foxing along top and bottom of boards, and minor offsetting on endpapers, otherwise very good in good, unclipped dust jacket with some soiling and chipping along top edge and one-inch closed tear on back cover. Gimpel's edited diary is "not only an authoritative almanac of the international art market from 1918 to 1939, but something more valuable: a vivid chronicle of life at the cultural top...There are descriptions of Clemenceau, of the Prince of Wales, of Proust's funeral, of Woodrow Wilson and Charles Lindbergh that are as lively as anything in Plutarch."
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