Chinese Album by Cecil Beaton (40 results)

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. We are on holiday from 18th July-31st July items ordered during this period will be posted on our return. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. illustrated, 169 pages.

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardback. Dust wrapper over black boards with gilt titles to the spine; Measures 10" x 7¾" (1 kg); pp (ix) 169; Preface by Jane Carmichael; Includes: Sketches; Black & white photographs; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #199558 ||.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. With an Introduction by Jane Carmichael. Superb photograhs of China,Cecil Beaton has produced a vivid portrait of Nationist China in its last years.

1991 1ST D/W TEAR REPAIRED O/W FINE /FINE.

Yellow hardback cloth cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. (More images available on request). G: in good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed and marked. Spine darkened, with chipping to ends. Previous owner inscription to fep. Inner hinge cracking. Sporadic foxing; heavier at prelims. 230mm x 180mm (9" x 7"). [viii], 78pp. B/w plates. Compiled whilst Cecil Beaton was sent to the Far East to take photographs for the Ministry of Information.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo.pp. 78. Original publisher's cloth binding in brightest yellow, lettered Blue, with a yin/yang symbol on front cover. Dust jacket in pink, lettered black with a Chinese-style drawing of butterflies. Neat name on front endpaper. B/w photographs taken by Beaton illustrate the people and the lifestyle he encountered on his travels. Subjects include the extraordinary process of noodle making by hand, Chinese theatre, girls working in a cotton mill and boys working at a naval dockyard, Government officials, military, sport, temples, tobacco,landscapes and cities. Very good indeed in minus very good dust jacket. Endpapers very slight foxing. Price Ğ clipped dust jacket nicked at spine with a small loss.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. A decent copy, with the dustjacket, which is hardly ever seen without tears and bits missing and other signs of shelfwear and handling. Two reasons: 1) the jacket was an end-of-wartime product; 2) this is a book that has always attracted people, because Cecil Beaton's main interest in China was in its people, seen as if on a vast theatre set. As he writes in his Introduction: "Perhaps from scrutinising these pictures you may be able to recognise the fact that, in all Chinese people, the element of Drama is instilled to the very marrow - witness the minute children pretending to be asleep, or plying a fan, the seller of feather dusters posing in the sunlight, the young archers and sportsmen with the gestures of ballet dancers, and the sentry stopping the oncoming traffic with every fragment of his body." Part of the interest of this book is to judge for oneself how much Beaton's generalising tendency towards "all Chinese people" is contradicted by the individualities of his pictures. Anyway, the dustjacket has been repaired on the reverse and is now in a smart protective sleeve, but as you can see from the pictures supplied, it does have some marks, and wears and tears, and small areas of loss, as is usual. The jacket has been price-clipped on the inner front flap. The book itself is spotted in varying degrees towards the end and front, and around the outer edges. The photographic plates, because they are printed on better paper, are clean with only occasional small spots and marks. The binding is getting tender between pages 14 and 15 but is otherwise still good and sound. The yellow boards are a bit foxed around the spine, the area near the top of the spine and along the outer edges but generally they are bright and pretty good. The book contains nearly 110 photographs, including the frontispiece, taken when Beaton was sent to China by Britain's Ministry of Information during World War Two, or as he notes, during China's "eighth year of war against aggression" - since Japan invaded in 1937.

First edition. 8vo. (viii), 77, (1) pp. Publisher's yellow cloth, blue lettered to the spine and upper board, dust jacket Numerous black and white photographic illustrations. Jacket worn with some losses and splitting to the spine, foxing to the front and rear leaves, the book itself very good otherwise.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Small quarto, pp frontispiece photo; [6]; 78 pages of gravure printed photographs with captions. Yellow cloth covered hard boards with blue lettering and blue ying-yang device to upper board. In the original distinctive pink dust jacket which is unclipped but has had the price neatly blacked out. Beaton was sent to China in late 1945 by the Ministry of Information, London to record the situation in the country in the immediate aftermath of war hostilities. This book was the result of his visit. A graceful and sensitive album of photographs, from many rural areas as well as Kunming, Chengtu, Chungking and the Yangtse river. Very Good Plus condition book, clean and unmarked internally, a little light spotting to top and fore edges. The jacket has chips at the top of the spine and bottom edge and grades Good Plus.

Condition: Used - Good. 1st UK edition, in bright yellow cloth with black; B&W photographs. Owner's name on front free end paper; slight browning & wear at head & foot of spine. Dust jacket not price-clipped, but with loss & tear to back panel; dj protected in removable clear film.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Cecil Beaton (illustrator). First edition. A beautiful travel work by Cecil Beaton, containing his photographs from a trip to China in the 1940s, in his original colourful dustwrapper. The first edition of this work.In the original unclipped colourful dustwrapper by the author.Cecil Beaton's vivid travel account of his time spent in China, a lovely collection of photographs of the people and scenery of the country.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and seventy-eight plates.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'. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart, with a little discolouration to the boards and spine. Dustwrapper is a little edgeworn with some chips and closed tears. Dustwrapper is lightly discoloured with some light spots. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with some odd spots, mostly to the first and last few pages. Very Good Indeed. book.

Condition: Near Fine. Jacket Condition: Very Good ++. 1st Edition, 1st Impression. 17.2 x 22.9 cm bright yellow cloth with dark blue titles to the front and spine. Top edge yellow, [viii]77[1]pp including 77 pages of Beaton's black and white photographs. In original unclipped jacket with a 12s 6d Net price. The boards have been well protected by the dust jacket and are bright with firm sharp corners. Internally clean and with no name inscription or bookplate. The dust jacket presents very well in its clear removable cover (not shown). It is lightly dust stained with a touch of toning to the spine, with a couple of spots to the rear panel. There is a tiny 3 mm x 1 cm triangular chip to the bottom joint of the upper panel. A really good looking 1st Edition copy of the photographs taken by Beaton on a tour of China and India undertaken at the end of World War II for the Ministry of Information. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Winter, 1945-6. First edition. B.T. Batsford Ltd. London. Winter, 1945-6. First edition. Hardback, octavo; yellow cloth-bound boards with blue titles, yellow top edge, dust jacket. Black-and-white frontispiece, [viii], 78 pages of black-and-white photographs. English. 230x175mm. 0.35kg. Very good, in very good dust jacket; light shelf wear to dust jacket, slightly chipped at head and base of spine, light wear to forecorners, some browning to spine, not price-clipped; clean internally, no inscriptions. During the Second World War Cecil Beaton was sent to the Far East as a War Photographer for the Ministry of Information. Whilst there he took thousands of photographs, a selection of which are collected into his Chinese Album. Beaton took an eager interest in everyone he met and all levels of Chinese society are documented in the book, with images of poets, scholars, orphans, mothers, soldiers, government officials, firemen, policemen, noodle makers, salt miners, farmers, factory workers and villagers. Beaux Books specialises in fine and rare books on art and culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. We welcome questions about our books and we are happy to provide any extra images. Buy with confidence from an experienced bookseller.

Condition: Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.4.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.4.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.4.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.4.

Hardcover, in dust jacket. First edition thus. Light rubbing and bumping, still fine in fine, gently rubbed dust jacket, in mylar cover.

Hardcover with dustjacket, 170 pages very good condition; light rubbing to dj; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Reprint. Black and white photographic illustrations, ix + 169pp, prior owner's neat chop on title page, dustjacket with sunned spine, very good hardback copy. 25.5 x 19.5cm. Cecil Beaton was sent by the British Ministry of Information with his camera to the Far East in order to take photographs of the Empire and its Allies at War. This book is a reprint of "Far East" and "Chinese Album" which were published by Batsford in 1945-6.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 169 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket with slightly sunned spine. Clean, tight copy. Record # 460349.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Photographs by Cecil Beaton. Introduction by Jane Carmichael. x, 169pp. Fine in about fine dust jacket with a tiny tear at the spine base. Reissues two of Beaton's books with a new introduction.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Covers soiled but colors bright. Sturdy biinding, clean unmarked interior. Corner of one interior page scrunched.

Hardcover. Condition: New.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No DJ. Some light soiling to cover. Pages clean, binding solid. Book.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No DJ. Some light soiling to cover. Pages clean, binding solid. Book.