Book Beauty by Beaton Cecil (16 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. UK hardback first impression. Rare. A poor copy though with some wear and bowing. Missing plates 2,3,8,17,18 & 23, with plate 5 defaced. A couple of plates also loose.There does however remain plenty to enjoy. No jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 67pp. 27 collotype plates, plus many in-text line drawings. Hardback, quarto; white paper-covered boards with gilt polka-dot pattern, backed with metallic-pink cloth spine. Boards stained and soiled, edges chipped Gold polka-dots are scratched. There is a bookplate of Sir William Symonds on the front pastedown. The binding is tight and the plates in good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. BEATON, Cecil [67] pp. Duckworth Press 1930 11 1/4 x 9" Amazing/ unique copy hand-painted by Cecil Beaton himself w/ his signature 'rosebuds' over the polka dot boards 'I have tried.to make my book an analysis of modern beauty, a collection of the loveliest ladies I have ever seen, and, in time, it may become a sentimental document for our grandchildren, to marvel at all the types of beauty to-day; the latest varieties of Venus as well as the counterparts of former belles.' (Beaton in his Introduction) Cecil Beaton's scarce first book. The Book of Beauty is Beaton's unashamed paean to the beauty of the women who inhabit his world. The book is inspired by books of beauty published in the Victorian period and by his childhood fascination with the theatricality and glamour of the opposite sex. Photographs of women are accompanied by flowery descriptions. Sitters include Baba and Nancy Beaton, Edith Sitwell, Tallulah Bankhead, Tilly Losch, Nancy Cunard and Lady Diana Cooper. The whole captures the wit, intelligence and spirit of the modern women. The Book of Beauty is a 1930 book by Cecil Beaton, his first published book of photographs. In his concept of beauty, Beaton, with sketches and photographs, highlights actresses such as Tallulah Bankhead and Anna May Wong but also modernist literary figures like Edith Sitwell and Nancy Cunard. Contents: Lillie Langtry Lily Elsie Gaby Deslys Gina Palerme Mary Curzon, Lady Howe The Morgan Sisters (Thelma Furness, Viscountess Furness and Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt) Gladys Cooper Rosamond Pinchot Lady Diana Abdy The Beaton Sisters (Nancy Beaton and Baba Beaton) The Jungman Sisters (Zita Jungman and Baby Jungman) Edith Sitwell Virginia Woolf Hazel Lavery Tallulah Bankhead The French Sisters (Essex French and Valerie French) Lillian Gish Marion Davies Norma Shearer Alice White Greta Garbo Irene Castle Gertrude Lawrence Lady Eleanor Smith and Lady Pamela Smith Hon. Daisy Fellowes Tilly Losch Vicomtess Alice de Janzé Marjorie Oelrichs Mrs Gordon Beckles Wilson Mona Williams The Ruthven Twins (Alison Ruthven and Peggy Ruthven) Paula Gellibrand, Marquise de Casa Maury Nada Ruffer and Clarita de Uriburu Freda Dudley Ward Anita Loos Adele Astaire Lady Nancy Cunard Lady Sylvia Ashley Lady Diana Cooper.

Cloth Spine Card Boards. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. xii, 67 pp. Baby pink cloth spine over white card boards, with gilt lettering to the spine and gilt polka dot decoration to the boards. With a colour frontis illustration of Queen Alexandra and in text illustrations throughout by Cecil Beaton, alongside 27 black and white photographic plates by Beaton. Rubbing to the spine and boards. Toning, some foxing and rubbing to the gilt at the boards. Spot to plate II, the stain of which has spread between pages 1-7. Plate 27 bears a 21cm tear at the hinge, still attached along 7cm at the top of the hinge. A little splitting at the hinges at the rear of the binding. A VG first edition of Cecil Beaton's first published book of photographs. This ode to Beaton's conception of female beauty provides wonderful sketches and photographs of the glamourous women inhabiting his circles, including actors such as Tallulah Bankhead, literary figures Edith Sitwell and Virginia Woolf, to his own sister's Baba and Nancy Beaton. 4to. Illustrated.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. BEATON, Cecil [67] pp. Duckworth 1930 11" x 8 3/8" w/ 27 Photo Plates Ex-Libris: East Sussex County Library w/ Drawing The Book of Beauty is a 1930 book by Cecil Beaton, his first published book of photographs. In his concept of beauty, Beaton, with sketches and photographs, highlights actresses such as Tallulah Bankhead and Anna May Wong but also modernist literary figures like Edith Sitwell and Nancy Cunard. Contents: Lillie Langtry Lily Elsie Gaby Deslys Gina Palerme Mary Curzon, Lady Howe The Morgan Sisters (Thelma Furness, Viscountess Furness and Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt) Gladys Cooper Rosamond Pinchot Lady Diana Abdy The Beaton Sisters (Nancy Beaton and Baba Beaton) The Jungman Sisters (Zita Jungman and Baby Jungman) Edith Sitwell Virginia Woolf Hazel Lavery Tallulah Bankhead The French Sisters (Essex French and Valerie French) Lillian Gish Marion Davies Norma Shearer Alice White Greta Garbo Irene Castle Gertrude Lawrence Lady Eleanor Smith and Lady Pamela Smith Hon. Daisy Fellowes Tilly Losch Vicomtess Alice de Janzé Marjorie Oelrichs Mrs Gordon Beckles Wilson Mona Williams The Ruthven Twins (Alison Ruthven and Peggy Ruthven) Paula Gellibrand, Marquise de Casa Maury Nada Ruffer and Clarita de Uriburu Freda Dudley Ward Anita Loos Adele Astaire Lady Nancy Cunard Lady Sylvia Ashley Lady Diana Cooper.

Condition: Very Good. 1930. First edition. Duckworth. London. 1930. First edition. Hardback, quarto; white paper-covered boards with gilt polka-dot pattern, backed with metallic-pink cloth spine, gilt title to spine, top-edge pink. xii, 67 pages. Colour frontispiece, 27 hors-texte black-and-white collotype plates and numerous line-drawing illustrations in the text. English. 285x230mm. 0.8kg. Very good; some light soiling and marks to white covers, some light rubbing to edges and forecorners, spine slightly toned; slight offsetting to endpapers, spotting to edges and prelims, occasional spotting to remaining pages, no inscriptions. I have tried.to make my book an analysis of modern beauty, a collection of the loveliest ladies I have ever seen, and, in time, it may become a sentimental document for our granchildren, to marvel at all the types of beauty to-day; the latest varieties of Venus as well as the counterparts of former belles.' The Book of Beauty is Cecil Beaton's first book. It is an unashamed paean to the beauty of the women who inhabit his world. The book is inspired by books of beauty published in the Victorian period and by his childhood fascination with the theatricality and glamour of the opposite sex. Photographs of women are accompanied by flowery descriptions. Sitters include Baba and Nancy Beaton, Edith Sitwell, Tallulah Bankhead, Tilly Losch, Nancy Cunard and Lady Diana Cooper. The whole captures the wit, intelligence and spirit of the modern women. 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. Duckworth. London. 1930. First edition. From the deluxe edition limited to 110 copies, bound in fine ivory cloth and printed on handmade paper by the Camelot Press Ltd. Numbered and signed by the author. This copy being number 50. Hardback, quarto; ivory cloth-bound boards, with gilt title to spine, top-edge pink. xii, 67 pages. Colour frontispiece, 27 hors-texte black-and-white collotype plates and numerous line-drawing illustrations in the text. English. 295x235mm. 0.8kg. Very good; light shelf wear and some light soiling and marks to white boards and spine, spine lightly toned; some occasional faint spotting to some of the plates. I have tried.to make my book an analysis of modern beauty, a collection of the loveliest ladies I have ever seen, and, in time, it may become a sentimental document for our granchildren, to marvel at all the types of beauty to-day; the latest varieties of Venus as well as the counterparts of former belles.' The Book of Beauty is Cecil Beaton's first book. It is an unashamed paean to the beauty of the women who inhabit his world. The book is inspired by books of beauty published in the Victorian period and by his childhood fascination with the theatricality and glamour of the opposite sex. Photographs of women are accompanied by flowery descriptions. Sitters include Baba and Nancy Beaton, Edith Sitwell, Tallulah Bankhead, Tilly Losch, Nancy Cunard and Lady Diana Cooper. The whole captures the wit, intelligence and spirit of the modern women. A rare copy of the deluxe edition, limited to 110 copies, signed and numbered by Beaton. 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. 1930. First edition. From the deluxe edition limited to 110 copies, bound in fine ivory cloth and printed on handmade paper by the Camelot Press Ltd. Numbered and signed by the author. This copy being number 50. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. BEATON, Cecil [67] pp. Duckworth 1930 11 1/4" x 9" The Book of Beauty is Beaton's unashamed paean to the beauty of the women who inhabit his world. The book is inspired by books of beauty published in the Victorian period and by his childhood fascination with the theatricality and glamour of the opposite sex. Photographs of women are accompanied by flowery descriptions. Sitters include Baba and Nancy Beaton, Edith Sitwell, Tallulah Bankhead, Tilly Losch, Nancy Cunard and Lady Diana Cooper. The whole captures the wit, intelligence and spirit of the modern women.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. BEATON, Cecil [67] pp. Duckworth 1930 11 1/8" x 9" Exceedingly rare with the jacket. Illustrated with a coloured frontispiece from the author's drawing of Queen Alexandra, 27 collotype reproductions of his photographs, and 100 line drawings in the text. Cecil Beaton's scarce first book. The Book of Beauty is Beaton's unashamed paean to the beauty of the women who inhabit his world. The book is inspired by books of beauty published in the Victorian period and by his childhood fascination with the theatricality and glamour of the opposite sex. Photographs of women are accompanied by flowery descriptions. Sitters include Baba and Nancy Beaton, Edith Sitwell, Tallulah Bankhead, Tilly Losch, Nancy Cunard and Lady Diana Cooper. The whole captures the wit, intelligence and spirit of the modern women. The Book of Beauty is a 1930 book by Cecil Beaton, his first published book of photographs. In his concept of beauty, Beaton, with sketches and photographs, highlights actresses such as Tallulah Bankhead and Anna May Wong but also modernist literary figures like Edith Sitwell and Nancy Cunard. Contents: Lillie Langtry Lily Elsie Gaby Deslys Gina Palerme Mary Curzon, Lady Howe The Morgan Sisters (Thelma Furness, Viscountess Furness and Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt) Gladys Cooper Rosamond Pinchot Lady Diana Abdy The Beaton Sisters (Nancy Beaton and Baba Beaton) The Jungman Sisters (Zita Jungman and Baby Jungman) Edith Sitwell Virginia Woolf Hazel Lavery Tallulah Bankhead The French Sisters (Essex French and Valerie French) Lillian Gish Marion Davies Norma Shearer Alice White Greta Garbo Irene Castle Gertrude Lawrence Lady Eleanor Smith and Lady Pamela Smith Hon. Daisy Fellowes Tilly Losch Vicomtess Alice de Janzé Marjorie Oelrichs Mrs Gordon Beckles Wilson Mona Williams The Ruthven Twins (Alison Ruthven and Peggy Ruthven) Paula Gellibrand, Marquise de Casa Maury Nada Ruffer and Clarita de Uriburu Freda Dudley Ward Anita Loos Adele Astaire Lady Nancy Cunard Lady Sylvia Ashley Lady Diana Cooper.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Cecil Beaton (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of Cecil Beaton's first published photographical work, containing a variety of portraits of the beautiful women of the day. The first edition of this work.In the original torn dustwrapper, dustwrapper is very scarcely seen.Cecil Beaton's first published work, a collection of portrait photographs pondering on the beauty of the time.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'.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, twenty-seven plates, and in-text illustrations.Collated, complete.The portraits show Edith Sitwell, Anna May Wong, Nancy Beaton, Georgina Curzon, Norma Shearer, Lillie Langtry, Gladys Cooper, and more. The colour frontispiece portrays Queen Alexandra.Each portrait is accompanied by a brief biography. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original dustwrapper. Externally, smart, with some light marks to the boards and spine. A little bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Dustwrapper is torn, lacking the bottom half of the wraps and backstrip. Edgewear to the remnants of the wraps, with some chips and closed tears. Some discolouration and marks to the wraps. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with some odd spots. Plates of Edith Sitwell and Lady Lavery are working loose. Very Good Indeed. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. BEATON, Cecil [67] pp. Duckworth 1930 11 1/4" x 9" w/ Frederick Carlisle Baker bookplate Cecil Beaton's scarce first book. The Book of Beauty is Beaton's unashamed paean to the beauty of the women who inhabit his world. The book is inspired by books of beauty published in the Victorian period and by his childhood fascination with the theatricality and glamour of the opposite sex. Photographs of women are accompanied by flowery descriptions. Sitters include Baba and Nancy Beaton, Edith Sitwell, Tallulah Bankhead, Tilly Losch, Nancy Cunard and Lady Diana Cooper. The whole captures the wit, intelligence and spirit of the modern women.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. BEATON, Cecil [67] pp. Duckworth 1930 11 1/4" x 9" The Book of Beauty is Beaton's unashamed paean to the beauty of the women who inhabit his world. The book is inspired by books of beauty published in the Victorian period and by his childhood fascination with the theatricality and glamour of the opposite sex. Photographs of women are accompanied by flowery descriptions. Sitters include Baba and Nancy Beaton, Edith Sitwell, Tallulah Bankhead, Tilly Losch, Nancy Cunard and Lady Diana Cooper. The whole captures the wit, intelligence and spirit of the modern women. The Book of Beauty is a 1930 book by Cecil Beaton, his first published book of photographs. In his concept of beauty, Beaton, with sketches and photographs, highlights actresses such as Tallulah Bankhead and Anna May Wong but also modernist literary figures like Edith Sitwell and Nancy Cunard. Contents: Lillie Langtry Lily Elsie Gaby Deslys Gina Palerme Mary Curzon, Lady Howe The Morgan Sisters (Thelma Furness, Viscountess Furness and Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt) Gladys Cooper Rosamond Pinchot Lady Diana Abdy The Beaton Sisters (Nancy Beaton and Baba Beaton) The Jungman Sisters (Zita Jungman and Baby Jungman) Edith Sitwell Virginia Woolf Hazel Lavery Tallulah Bankhead The French Sisters (Essex French and Valerie French) Lillian Gish Marion Davies Norma Shearer Alice White Greta Garbo Irene Castle Gertrude Lawrence Lady Eleanor Smith and Lady Pamela Smith Hon. Daisy Fellowes Tilly Losch Vicomtess Alice de Janzé Marjorie Oelrichs Mrs Gordon Beckles Wilson Mona Williams The Ruthven Twins (Alison Ruthven and Peggy Ruthven) Paula Gellibrand, Marquise de Casa Maury Nada Ruffer and Clarita de Uriburu Freda Dudley Ward Anita Loos Adele Astaire Lady Nancy Cunard Lady Sylvia Ashley Lady Diana Cooper.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. BEATON, Cecil [67] pp. Duckworth 1930 11 1/4" x 8 7/8 Re-bound in red morocco leather spine w/ moire silk boards The Book of Beauty is Beaton's unashamed paean to the beauty of the women who inhabit his world. The book is inspired by books of beauty published in the Victorian period and by his childhood fascination with the theatricality and glamour of the opposite sex. Photographs of women are accompanied by flowery descriptions. Sitters include Baba and Nancy Beaton, Edith Sitwell, Tallulah Bankhead, Tilly Losch, Nancy Cunard and Lady Diana Cooper. The whole captures the wit, intelligence and spirit of the modern women.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. BEATON, Cecil [67] pp. Duckworth 1930 11 1/8" x 9" Exceedingly rare with the jacket Illustrated with a coloured frontispiece from the author's drawing of Queen Alexandra, 27 collotype reproductions of his photographs, and 100 line drawings in the text. Cecil Beaton's scarce first book. The Book of Beauty is Beaton's unashamed paean to the beauty of the women who inhabit his world. The book is inspired by books of beauty published in the Victorian period and by his childhood fascination with the theatricality and glamour of the opposite sex. Photographs of women are accompanied by flowery descriptions. Sitters include Baba and Nancy Beaton, Edith Sitwell, Tallulah Bankhead, Tilly Losch, Nancy Cunard and Lady Diana Cooper. The whole captures the wit, intelligence and spirit of the modern women. I have tried.to make my book an analysis of modern beauty, a collection of the loveliest ladies I have ever seen, and, in time, it may become a sentimental document for our granchildren, to marvel at all the types of beauty to-day; the latest varieties of Venus as well as the counterparts of former belles.' The Book of Beauty is a 1930 book by Cecil Beaton, his first published book of photographs. In his concept of beauty, Beaton, with sketches and photographs, highlights actresses such as Tallulah Bankhead and Anna May Wong but also modernist literary figures like Edith Sitwell and Nancy Cunard. Contents: Lillie Langtry Lily Elsie Gaby Deslys Gina Palerme Mary Curzon, Lady Howe The Morgan Sisters (Thelma Furness, Viscountess Furness and Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt) Gladys Cooper Rosamond Pinchot Lady Diana Abdy The Beaton Sisters (Nancy Beaton and Baba Beaton) The Jungman Sisters (Zita Jungman and Baby Jungman) Edith Sitwell Virginia Woolf Hazel Lavery Tallulah Bankhead The French Sisters (Essex French and Valerie French) Lillian Gish Marion Davies Norma Shearer Alice White Greta Garbo Irene Castle Gertrude Lawrence Lady Eleanor Smith and Lady Pamela Smith Hon. Daisy Fellowes Tilly Losch Vicomtess Alice de Janzé Marjorie Oelrichs Mrs Gordon Beckles Wilson Mona Williams The Ruthven Twins (Alison Ruthven and Peggy Ruthven) Paula Gellibrand, Marquise de Casa Maury Nada Ruffer and Clarita de Uriburu Freda Dudley Ward Anita Loos Adele Astaire Lady Nancy Cunard Lady Sylvia Ashley Lady Diana Cooper.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. 4to. Pp 67. 25 photographic plates - lacking 2 plates and 1 plate damaged. Page removed between title page and table of contents. Cloth-backed patterned boards, very worn. A horrible copy of no account, but one that is rescued and elevated quite above the ordinary by the presence on the half tile and title pages of the signatures of 49 guests at Ivor Novello's party, Santa Monica, Hollywood, 15/8/31. The signatures include those of Phyllis Dare, Jill Edmond, Bramwell Fletcher, Gladys O'Hagen, Laurence Olivier, Edmund Lowe,P.G.Wodehouse, Ivor Novello, etc.etc. Also included are 2 signed portraits. Appropriate restoration required.

First edition, 4to, xii, 67, (1) pp. Colour frontispiece and 27 photographic portrait plates plus numerous illustrations in the text, contemporary inscription to fly leaf with a slightly later signature underneath. Original cloth backed gilt dotted boards, slight wear to the lower hinge, some general scuffing and marks to the boards. Beaton's paean to female beauty comprising a collection of photographs of a variety of society figures including Tallulah Bankhead, Lilian Gish and Lady Diana Cooper, some in rather outlandish costumes or scenes.