Nov 29, 2007 - Sale 2130

Sale 2130 - Lot 105

Price Realized: $ 510
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
PHILLIPS, COLE. A Gallery of Girls. 39 color plates and small black-and-white illustrations on the facing pages. 4to, publisher's cloth with pictorial cover onlay; front and bottom panels only of original box. New York: The Century Co., 1911

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first edition of a charming book featuring Phillips''s "fadeaway girls" where portions of a figure''s dress or body would blend or fade into the background design. The fadeaway girls gained national attention when Life Magazine began to use them on its color covers in 1908.