Unseen Versailles

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Unseen Versailles. Photographs by Deborah Turbeville. Introduction by Louis Auchincloss. Doubleday & Co. Garden City NY 1981. 160 pp. Quarto. First edition. Clothbound in photo-illustrated dust jacket. Numerous tinted black-and-white reproductions. " A study of endless hidden and unattended rooms and of obscure faded forms that live in them still. Inanimate figures collect in the rooms with no more emphasis than have all the other derelict objects and debris.... these rooms have ceased to discriminate between matter determining that all things past are of equal value in narration...But the past is restless...it is here for a moment...turn...and look quickly."--Deborah Turbeville.