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Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Eve Harmon who ran Condé Nast publications in Australia in 1983 wrote a letter to creatives and socialites informing us that Vanity Fair was being published again - starting with Volume 47 #1 in March of that year.
In the first edition 'Fanfair' lead article by Calvin Trillin he muses "My curiosity about the new Vanity Fair has been dominated by one question: Why wasn't I asked to subscribe?." "Plenty of people were. I happen to know one J.E.Curr Jnr., who describes himself as the publisher of Vanity Fair, sent letters to any number of people informing them by name (Dear Mr. Upscale) that his magazine wasn't meant for everyone but for only a handful of bright, literate people." . . . so the first issue appeared and then disappeared.
The first twelve issues only arrived in Australia via a USA subscription, so those are rare + these first fifteen years kept me enthralled and here they all are, being sold as one job lot to the first person who promises the dollars.


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