Cecil Beaton - Memoirs Of the 40's
by Beaton, Cecil
SIR CECIL BEATON was born in Hampstead in 1904. Throughout his life he was a diarist, painter and interior designer but most recognised as a fashion and portrait photographer for Vogue, Vanity Fair and LIFE. He won several theatre and film awards, including two Academy Awards for his stage and costume design for My Fair Lady, and was knighted in 1972. He died at home in Wiltshire in 1980.
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Cecil Beaton : theatre of War
by Beaton, Cecil, 1904-1980
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London: Jonathan Cape : in association with Imperial War Museums, 2012. Hardcover. VG, corners slightly bumped. Illustrated dj; pictorial board covers. 227 pages : illustrations. At the beginning of the Second World War the Ministry of Information, through the advice of Kenneth Clark, commissioned Cecil Beaton to photograph the Home Front. Theatre of War is published in conjunction… Read more about this item Item Price
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Cecil Beaton: Memoirs of the 40's
by Beaton, Cecil
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- 1972
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New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1972. Red cloth boards have light wear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound.. First Printing. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Item Price
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CECIL BEATON: MEMOIRS OF THE 40's
by Beaton, Cecil
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NY, McGraw Hill Book Co., (c. 1972),, 1972. Hardcover. near Very Good/Very Good. Pages 310, octavo, hardcover. Some light spotting on covers, else Very Good; dust jacket has light edge wear, still Very Good. 100403A ISBN: 0-07-004225-X
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Cecil Beaton : Theatre of War
by Cecil Beaton
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London, United Kingdom: Jonathan Cape in Association with Imperial War Museums , 2012. General wear to top edge of jacket. 227 pages with b/w illustrations. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Item Price
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Cecil Beaton: Theatre of War
by Beaton, Cecil
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Cecil Beaton
by Beaton, Cecil (1904-1980). Cecil Beaton (Exhibition) (2009: London). Huxley-Parlour, Giles. Wootton, David 91963-). Chris Beetles Gallery. Sotheby's (Firm)
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London : Chris Beetles Ltd in a unique collaboration with Sotheby's, 2009. First Edition. Softcover. Fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 90 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. Notes; ""Edited and compiled by Giles Huxley-Parlour and David Wootton""-- p.[4]. Bibliography: p. 90. Contents; Foreword / Mario… Read more about this item Item Price
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Cecil Beaton: Portraits and Profiles.
by BEATON, Cecil.
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- 2014
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London:: Frances Lincoln Limited,. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2014. Hardcover. 0711235503 . Edited by Hugo Vickers. Black and white photographs throughout. First printing. Publisher's press release laid in. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Item Price
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CECIL BEATON: Memoirs of the 40's
by Cecil Beaton
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- 1972
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New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good. 310p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. Contains the signature of Chicago-based professional musician Donald Knight; otherwise clean and tight. The jacket has some mild edge wear, but is otherwise intact. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Item Price
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CECIL BEATON: Memoirs Of The 40's
by Beaton, Cecil
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- 1972
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New York, St. Louis, San Francisco, Dusseldorf, Mexico, Toronto: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1972. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st edition. A Near Fine copy in Very Good dust jacket. 8vo., 310 pp.Maroon cloth in black, photo-illustrated dj. The dj, priced at $10.00, has a small closed tear along the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Cecil Beaton: Memoirs of the 40's
by BEATON, Cecil
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- 1972
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New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1972. Hardcover. Small 4to. Maroon cloth, price-clipped dust jacket. 310pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Good/good plus. Minor warping of pages. First edition. Item Price
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Cecil Beaton: A Retrospective
by Beaton, Cecil
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- 1986
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Middlebury, Vermont, USA
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Little, Brown, & Co.: New York Graphic Society, 1986. 1st US. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Cecil Beaton. 256 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Retrospective on famed artist. Edited by Dr. David Mellor. With color and b&w plates throughout. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Light fading and foxing to front flyleaf. Unmarked. A bright and tight… Read more about this item Item Price
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Cecil Beaton
by BEATON, Cecil
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- 1982
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Milan: Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri, 1982. First edition. Softcover. Text by Philippe Garner in Italian. A nicely printed retrospective collection of black and white and some color images. A clean near fine copy in wrappers. Item Price
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Cecil Beaton: Memoirs of the 40's
by Beaton, Cecil
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- 1972
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New York, ET AL: McGraw-Hill Book Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1972. First Printing. Hardcover. 007004225X . Owner blindstamp lower corner of title-page. . Item Price
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Cecil Beaton: Memoirs of the 40's.
by BEATON, Cecil.
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- 1972
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NY:: McGraw-Hill,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1972. Hardcover. 007004225X . Second printing. Very good in a very good dust jacket. . Item Price
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Cecil Beaton
by Cecil Beaton
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- 1986
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London: Barbican Art Gallery, 1986. 255pp. A good sound copy, tight and clean throughout. . 1st Edition. Paperback. Good +/No Jacket. Illus. by Illustrated. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Item Price
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Cecil Beaton: Memoirs of the 40's
by BEATON, Cecil
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- Very Good
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- 1972
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New York: McGraw, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 310pp. Illustrated. Page fine edges soiled, very good in a very good dustwrapper with short tears on edges. Item Price
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Cecil Beaton: Memoirs of the 40's
by BEATON, Cecil
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- 1972
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Wadsworth, Illinois, USA
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New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1972. Second printing. Hardcover. 310 pages. A look at one of the more productive periods of Cecil Beaton's long career. Includes numerous black and white illustrations and images. A tight near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Item Price
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Cecil Beaton: Memoirs of the 40's
by Beaton, Cecil
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- 1972
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- Hardcover
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Santa Barbara, California, USA
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New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1972. Cloth, 310 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover.. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo. Item Price
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Cecil Beaton: Memoirs of the 40's
by Beaton, Cecil
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- Used - Fine in Very Good dust jacket
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- 1972
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- Hard Cover
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Los Angeles, California, USA
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McGraw-Hill. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1972. First Edition; First Printing. Hard Cover. 007004225X . From the estate of American Director and Screenwriter Charles Eastman, author of the original screenplay "Little Fauss and Big Halsy", the motorcycle racing film with Robert Redford and Michael J. Pollard. ; Tight binding, clean pages. A touch of shelf/edge wear… Read more about this item Item Price
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Cecil Beaton: Memoirs of the 40's
by Beaton, Cecil
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- Used - Good
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- Good
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- First Edition
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- 1972
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- Hardcover
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Tolar, Texas, USA
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New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1972. Dj scuffed with rubbed edges and small tears and description stickers inside. Notes and underscoring on pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Libris. Item Price
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