Search Results: photobiography by beaton cecil

Doubleday & Co., 1951-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 1.1024 9.9213 7.0079. Dust jacket is very worn and torn mainly on the edges.

Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1951. First Edition. hardcover. Good/Missing. 9x7x1. First edition stated from 1951. No dust jacket. Tan and black cloth boards have some spot stains, moderate soiling, and edge wear. Binding is slanted. Front pastedown has a name and date in dark pencil, and an old address label. Interior pages are clean and unmarked, with light toning. 255 pages. LO

Odhams, London, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Cecil Beaton – photography. 254 pages including frontispiece and 60 pages of photogravure illustrations, with a complete list of illustrations appearing on pages 7 & 8. The edges of the text block are Fox, but there is no real penetration into the margins of the book. Previous owner's neat name stamp at the top right of the front free end page, no other damage to report. The dust jacket is rubbed across both top and bottom edges, chip out of the top left side of the front panel tear and bottom right and bottom left of the rear panel, rubbing to the corners et cetera et cetera now protected. "Today we have become so accustomed to photographic flattery that, unless the photographer has resorted to the basic use of wholesale retouching on the negative, thereby losing the quality of truthfulness in his pictures, we feel the camera has erred on the side of cruelty. We are so… Read More

London: Odhams Press, 1951. Book. Illus. by Photos. Good to Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Boards have a little sunning and a few soil marks with a couple bumped soft corners. The contents are very clean and tight. 191pp..

London: Odhams Press. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Bound in oatmeal coloured cloth, frontispiece portrait, 60 b/w plates, 191pp. Slight scuffing to top of spine and tips of corners are scuffed. Text is very good.

London: Odhams Press Limited, 1951. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Small Quarto. 191 pp, b&w frontis, list of approx 60 b&w plates, introduction, I. First Steps; II. Jejune Enthusiasms and Excitements; III. First Success; IV. A New World; V. The Early 'Thirties in London, Chicago, New York, Hollywood, and More Travel Abroad; VI. Fashions in Photography and Fashion; VII. Some Personalities; VIII. War Experiences; IX. Some Painters and writers and Others; X. Photographing Royalty; XI. Stage Photography, Publicity and Mishaps; XII. Reflections, Techinques, Models and Beauties; XIII. Summiong Up; index. Publishing date at bottom of page 191: First Edition, 1951. 7.4" x 10" pale gray cloth boards, "Here is a happy combination of witty, interesting writing and lavish illustrationoa an unusually high standard that will appeal to lovers of good reading as much as it will to connoisseurs of good photography." from the jacket flap. Not Price Clipped. 1/4"… Read More

Odhams, 1951. 10" x 7.25". Photo frontis. 254 pp. including 60 pages of b&w photos. The author " ... presents, for the first time, a full and intimate account of his crowded and successful twenty-five years' career." Gray cloth, light wear at spine tips, VG. DJ starting to yellow around top edge and spine, bit of edgewear especially at spine tips and corners. .

Odhams. hardcover octavo (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

New York: Doubleday & Co, 1951. 1st Us Edition. Cloth. VG/VG. Large 8 Vo. Black lettered cream cloth over black cloth in pictorial dust jacket. Foxing to dust jacket and the book edges o/w vg copy.

Odhams Press London 1951. first edition, beige cloth with gilt to spine, 190pp illus, VG+(v sl wear & sunning to board edges, v sl tear to spine head, v sl sunned spine, prev owners inscr & stamps to prelims, sl foxing to ep's & edges with v sl spasmodically throughout) d/w VG-(sl wear tears & chipping to extrems, price clipped, sl internal foxing, sl rubbed & soiled & v sl sunned)

Odhams Press Ltd. super octavo, grey cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 191pp, illus, (VG) moderate tanning to extermities tanning to pages , d/w (G) major damage to d/w

Garden City,NY: Doubleday & Company, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 255p quarto, illustrated A very good copy in a very good dust jacket

Odhams Press. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Odhams Press undated edition. Pages clean and bright, binding firm, minor shelf wear to dust jacket, price clipped.

London: Odhams, 1951. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardback. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. First edition first printing quarto Hardback 192 pages Illustrated with many photographs Very Good condition in Good unclipped dust jacket (small closed tears at two corners of jacket, with a longer closed split along spine edge. Edges of jacket also rubbed) No inscriptions

London: Odhams Press Limited, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightly dust-dulled and rubbed on the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 190 pages, 65 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations, portraits; 27 cm. Index present. Subjects; Sitwell, Edith (1887-1964). Photographers. Biography. Photographers Correspondence, reminiscences, etc. 20th Century.

London: Odhams, 1951. 1st edition. Near Fine. large octavo. hardback in original cloth 191pp., b/w pls., index,

Odhams, undated. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Fair. Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton CBE was a British fashion, portrait and war photographer, diarist, painter, and interior designer, as well as an Oscar–winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre.Dust wrapper is worn and torn. Previous owners name to endpaper Size: Octavo . Category: Biography & Autobiography; .

UK: Odhams Press. Good. Hardcover. 1951. pp 190 slight cloth wear head and tail of spine white cloth sli ghtly soiled scans available .

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1951. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Quarto. 255pp. Illustrated reproducing black-and-white photographs by Beaton. A fine, bright copy in very good pictorial dust jacket with light wear and tanning on spine and an early internal tape mend.