Search Results: an indian album by cecil beaton

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1991.. 170pp. Small 4to. Original boards in dustwrapper. Black and white illustrations. Light foxing to top edge. A very good copy.. First OUP edition.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1991. New edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 170 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 26 cm. Contents: 1.Indian diary. -- 2.Indian album. (The latter consisting of photographs).Subjects: Beaton, Cecil 1904-1980; Diaries; Parr (Martin) Collection; World War, 1939-1945 East Asia; Pictorial works; photography India; Photography Burma; Beaton, Cecil Walter Hardy (English photographer and scenographer, 1904-1980); Documentary photography India; Black-and-white photography; India; Pictorial works; East Asia; India History British occupation, 1765-1947; India Description and travel; Memoirs and diaries 20th century.

London, Batsford, 1946. With frontisp., 4 pp. introduction and 78 pp. with photographs. Cloth w.dustj. (dustj. a bit damaged; cloth very slightly unfresh/spotted; dedication on flyleaf: 'from F.F. & F. to F.F.') 34 - Azie

Minor shelfwear, with some foxing and bubbling to cloth of front board; slight dampstaining to lower edge of rear board; light scattered foxing to prelims; jacket a bit toned, creased, and chipped, with slight lost at spine ends. Very good. LMM-280. Cecil Beaton. An Indian Album. London: B.T. Batsford, Ltd, 1945/6. First edition. Small Quarto. 78pp. Illustrated, with black and white photo plates throughout. Publisher's orange cloth with blue lettering to spine and front cover, in unclipped dust jacket, listing price 12s 16d net. Photos by Beaton, having been sent to the Far East to take photographs for the Ministry of Information. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .

London: B. T. Batsford LTD, 1945. First Edition 1st Printing. Orange Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good + Dust Jacket. 9 " Tall. Black and White Photographs. (Vi), 77 Pages. Orange Cloth With Blue Lettering, Bright, Light Foxing To Prelims (Not To Glossy Photographic Pages), Two Tiny Initials At Corner Of Front Free Endpaper. Dust Jacket With Slight Wear To Corners And Fore Edges And Spine, A Few Minute Losses, Slight Browning.

UK: Batsford, 1945. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good++. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 1st Edition 1945. A lovely example. Book is very good++ and bright. Nice clean contents. Bookplate to endpaper. The wrapper is very good++ and bright. Edges rubbed and nicked. Light age toning lines to front of wrapper. Light soiling to wrapper. Miniscule loss to odd areas. More images can be taken upon request. Ref15529

Bombay, Thacker & Co. Ltd., 1945. . First edition, inscribed by Cecil Beaton to Hugh Francis, 4to., [106]pp., 100 full-page black & white photographic plates, slight age-toning and minor dust-soiling to half-title, otherwise near-fine, modern half morocco over original boards, all edges gilt, a very good copy. Photographs taken by Beaton while Official Photographer for The Ministry of Information: from Beggars to Marharanies.A fine association copy. 'When war was declared I knew myself to be incapable of filling any regular service job. Fortunately, Hugh Francis [Controller of Photographs] of the M. of I. [Ministry of information], at the suggestion of Sir Kenneth Clark, saw fit to employ me as a photographer' (The Best of Beaton, 1968).