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My Royal Past
by Cecil Beaton
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: B. T. Batsford LTD, 1939. First edition. Cloth. Good. 10" by 7.5". Cecil Beaton. The first edition of this satirical Cecil Beaton novel, an illustrated account of the life of a fictional Baroness. The first edition of this work.Cecil Beaton's entertaining faux-memoir on the Baroness von Bulop, a fictional aristocratic woman whose reminiscences form this novel.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, thirty-two plates, and full-paged and in-text illustrations.Collated, complete.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'.Without the original dustwrapper.Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front endpaper. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally smart, with some marks to the boards and spine. Light rubbing and discolouration to the spine. A couple of small cracks to the rear joint. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities, with a small amount of loss of cloth to the spine. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with a few odd handling marks. Good
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 771P46
- Title
- My Royal Past
- Author
- Cecil Beaton
- Illustrator
- Cecil Beaton
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- B. T. Batsford LTD
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1939
- Size
- 10" by 7.5"
- Keywords
- My Royal Past cecil beaton beaton baroness von bulop cecil beaton satire
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Rooke Books
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BATH, Somerset
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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