My Royal Past

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1960. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8.5" by 5.5". Cecil Beaton. Cecil Beaton's entertaining novel about an aristocratic woman, the Baroness von Bulop, an amusing work with Beaton's illustrations. In the original unclipped dustwrapper.Cecil Beaton's entertaining faux-memoir on the Baroness von Bulop, a fictional aristocratic woman whose reminiscences form this novel.Illustrated with a frontispiece, twenty-two plates, and in-text illustrations.Beaton is a renowned fashion, portrait, and war photographer, well known and loved for his stage and costume design for films and theatre. He won Academy Awards for his costume design for the films 'Gigi' and 'My Fair Lady'.Stamp to the recto to the front endpaper, numerical ink to the half-title.A revised edition of this work. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, generally smart, with some marks to the boards and spine. A little bumping to the spine and extremities. Stamp to the recto to the front endpaper. Dustwrapper is lightly edgeworn, with a little discolouration and marks to the wraps. Evidence of a label being formerly adhered to the backstrip. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Numerical ink to the half-title. Very Good