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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Mackin, Jeanne, author.
Title: The last collection: a novel of Elsa Schiaparelli and Coco Chanel / Jeanne Mackin.
Description: First edition. | New York, NY: Berkley, 2019.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018043153 | ISBN 9781101990544 (hardback) | ISBN 9781101990551 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Chanel, Coco, 1883–1971—Fiction. | Schiaparelli, Elsa, 1890–1973—Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Biographical. | FICTION / Contemporary Women. | GSAFD: Biographical fiction.
Classification: LCC PS3563.A3169 L37 2019 | DDC 813/.54—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018043153
International edition ISBN: 9780593099339
First Edition: June 2019
Cover photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt / The LIFE Picture Collection / Getty Images
Cover design by Rita Frangie
Interior art: art nouveau pattern by Curly Pat / Shutterstock.com
This is a work of fiction. All incidents and dialogue, and all characters with the exception of some historical figures, are products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Where real-life historical persons appear, the situations, incidents, and dialogues concerning those persons are not intended to change the entirely fictional nature of the work. In all other respects, any resemblance to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.