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Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Mark Leibowitz (Jacket photograph) (illustrator). viii, 423, [1] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Author signed bookplate on fep. Leonard Alan Lauder (born March 19, 1933) is an American billionaire, philanthropist, art collector. He and his brother, Ronald Lauder, are the sole heirs to the Estée Lauder Companies cosmetics fortune, founded by their parents, Estée Lauder and Joseph Lauder, in 1946. Having been its CEO until 1999, Lauder is the chairman emeritus of The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. During his tenure as the CEO, the company went public at The New York Stock Exchange in 1996 and acquired several major cosmetics brands, including MAC Cosmetics, Aveda, Bobbi Brown, and La Mer. In 2013, Lauder promised his collection of Cubist art to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The collection is valued at over $1 billion and constitutes one of the largest gifts in the museum's history. Bloomberg Billionaires Index estimated Lauder's net worth at US$32.3 billion as of September 2021, the 44th richest person in the world. He joined Estée Lauder in 1958 when he was 25. He created the company's first research and development laboratory in the mid-1990s. Under his leadership in the late 1980s, Estée Lauder opened its first store in Moscow with support from the Gosbank daughter the Moscow Narodny Bank Limited in London. Lauder stepped down as CEO of Estée Lauder in 1999, but remains chairman emeritus of the company and is known around the company as "Chief Teaching Officer". Derived from a Kirkus review: A captain of industry chronicles an extraordinary life in the beauty business. Lauder tells both his own story and that of his mother, Estée Lauder (1908-2004), founder of the eponymous cosmetics company. Born Josephine Esther Mentzer, she got experience in the business world as a child, helping out in her father's hardware store and a department store called Plafker & Rosenthal. At the time, Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein owned the cosmetics industry, but as Estée pioneered the ideas of individual consultations and free gifts, her star began to climb. Leonard began working in the plant at age 13; to put himself to sleep, he would "mentally check off all the specialty stores we sold to." In 1958, he "officially" joined the company, which "barely had a dozen employees, including my parents and me." He set his course early on: "My dream was to make Estée Lauder the General Motors of the beauty business, with multiple brands, multiple product lines, and multinational distribution." He also dreamed, literally, of tinted lip gloss, which didn't exist at the time, and put it into production immediately. A watershed moment occurred during college, when his film club became so successful he started a second club to compete against it. This experience emboldened him to create Clinique, Origins, and Prescriptives and later to acquire Aveda, MAC, and others. "Competing against myself," writes Lauder, "is an idea that never grows old." Against the changing backdrop of 20th-century retail, the author describes his battles with the "ruthless" Charles Revson of Revlon and the later "Lancôme Wars." The final chapters detail Lauder's successes as an art collector and philanthropist. The author is such a consistently genial guide that he even makes the rigors of the Navyâ"he joined after being rejected from Harvard Business Schoolâ"seem charming. Full of sturdy, old-school leadership wisdom, a pleasant view from the top of a century of business. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated].

First Edition. Limited. No.2 of twenty-five copies. Ten folded sheets in folder (the cover with a signed etching) with glassine dustjacket. Printed on Reves Heavyweight; Folio, 12 by 18 inches. Etchings by Leonard Leibowitz. Calligraphy by Maureen Marsh. "The printing is limited to 25 copies and two artist's proofs . There are eleven etched plates of script, eleven etched engraved, aquatinted plates of design, two multicolored. Each plate is numbered and signed by poet and artist. Upon completion of the edition the plates will be destroyed" [from the colophon]. Cover lightly foxed, glassine which is oversized worn; Very Good. CLAY/PHILLIPS p. 274. There was a trade issue in blue stapled wrappers issued also by Folder Editions. Aldan published four issues of FOLDER magazine beginning in 1953, now quite scarce; an anthology A NEW FOLDER in 1959, as well as limited edition books for over nearly two decades. An important avant-garde poet. [66374]. Signed.