Cecil Beatons Scrapbook (23 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardbound, no Dust Jacket. First Edition. London: B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1937. "Cecil Beaton's Scrapbook" Boards show light wear and have warped slightly. Endpages and page edges show light foxing. The previous owner's bookplate is affixed to the front pastedown. Otherwise in good condition. Interior clean and binding sound. RARE!

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Book is in very good condition. Quarto, publishers yellow cloth board. First edition. Unclipped dust-jacket, internally very good, clean & bright, a few pale spots, cloth with general discoloration and war at head caps, dust-jacket worn with loss around spine/corners. 0.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. BEATON, Cecil [136] pp. B.T. Batsford Ltd. 1937 'On the shelves at Ashcombe, I have now over fifty diaries & scrapbooks, memorials of many violated magazines, repositories of museum picture postcards, theatrical programmes, letters, photographs & pictorial miscellanea which have accumulated since childhood. Christian Bérard suggested to me that a similar scrapbook might be distilled from my own work during the last five years; & that is what has been done.' (from the preface). The Scrapbook is Cecil Beaton's second book, published in 1937. Beaton's photographs and drawings, drawn from the author's numerous scrap albums, are collected together and accompanied by witty essays on subjects such as Christmas, Winter House Party, Mrs Simpson: 20th November 1936, Marlene Dietrich, Garbo, Hats, New York, Dubrovnik, The Russian Ballet and Coronation.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Published September, 1937. Three quarter cloth and floral boards with soil and heavy wear. Spine with heavy wear, scuffing, wrinkle. Spine tips/joints with edge wear, soft creases, tearing. Front hinge with heavy wear and cloth splits. Rear hinge with wear and a few areas of loosened weave. Corners rubbed, bowed, but no board exposure. An invoice dated 31 Oct 1937 from W. H. Smith & Son, Ltd. for the book is laid in. Floral endpapers have toning but are bright. Prelims and last endpaper with toning, foxing. Internally some soil, mostly finger ink smudges and in good+/VG- condition. Heavy edge wear with tearing and loss of paper. Wear to text block edges. Relaxed binding at head. Text block edges with wear. Please ask to see images for your satisfaction. Shelf 5b.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Wear to spine Floral boards and endpapers.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Quarto. Unnumbered pages. Bound in half cloth with floral boards and matching endpapers. Previous owners name to verso of frontispiece. Lightly spotted preliminaries. Overall a firm, undamaged and internally clean example. A mishmash of articles and illustrations by the celebrated artist, designer, and fashion/portrait photographer Cecil Beaton. A decent example in near very good condition.

Cecil Beaton (1904-1980) one of the most celebrated British portrait photographers of the twentieth century, is renowned for his images of elegance, glamour and style. This work features studies on Katherine Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo among others. From the collection of prominent Australian photographer, Laurence Le Guay. With his signature. Bound in coloured pictorial boards with cloth spine, 235mm x 290mm, 144 pages, photographic illustrations and drawings throughout, decorative endpapers; a little wear to spine and a few scattered fox marks otherwise a near fine copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback, well read copy with some spine wear, with spine starting to come away from book covers, colouring of page edges due to age. Still very useable. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Quite rare with the 'rosebud' signature wallpaper endpapers boards with a superb/ complete wrap around 'decoupage' dustjacket BEATON, Cecil [135] pp. B.T. Batsford Ltd 1937 11 1/2" x 9 1/4" *jacket spine detached from front panel* w/ floral rose bud Sanderson wallpaper boards & endpapers VG/ VG Scroll Down for (13) Additional Scans: On the shelves at Ashcombe, I have now over fifty diaries & scrapbooks, memorials of many violated magazines, repositories of museum picture postcards, theatrical programmes, letters, photographs & pictorial miscellanea which have accumulated since childhood. Christian Bérard suggested to me that a similar scrapbook might be distilled from my own work during the last five years; that is what has been done.' (Preface). The Scrapbook is Cecil Beaton's second book, published in 1937. Beaton's photographs and drawings, drawn from the author's numerous scrap albums, are collected together and accompanied by witty essays on subjects such as Christmas, Winter House Party, Mrs Simpson: 20th November 1936, Marlene Dietrich, Garbo, Hats, New York, Dubrovnik, The Russian Ballet and Coronation. This copy with the desirable variant binding that uses floral wallpaper for the boards and endpapers.

Condition: Very Good. B.T. Batsford Ltd. London. 1937. First edition, first printing. From the edition deluxe, in a vellum binding and limited to 150 copies and signed by the author. Exhibited at 'Cecil Beaton's Fashionable World' at the National Portrait Gallery, 2025. Hardback, quarto; full parchment vellum, gilt title to spine, top edge gilt, floral gilt endpapers, issued without dust jacket. 136 pages. Illustrated throughout with over 350 drawings, collotype photographs and coloured plates on varied paper stock; frontispiece and tailpiece by Christian Bérard. English. 290x235mm. 1.1kg. Very good; slight spotting and soiling to parchment vellum, very slight bowing to boards, small knock to gilt edge, two small stains affecting top- and fore-edge of boards and very edge of final four leaves, slight spotting to prelims. 'On the shelves at Ashcombe, I have now over fifty diaries & scrapbooks, memorials of many violated magazines, repositories of museum picture postcards, theatrical programmes, letters, photographs & pictorial miscellanea which have accumulated since childhood. Christian Bérard suggested to me that a similar scrapbook might be distilled from my own work during the last five years; & that is what has been done.' (Preface).  The Scrapbook is Cecil Beaton's second book, published in 1937. Beaton's photographs and drawings, drawn from the author's numerous scrap albums, are collected together and accompanied by witty essays on subjects such as Christmas, Winter House Party, Mrs Simpson: 20th November 1936, Marlene Dietrich, Garbo, Hats, New York, Dubrovnik, The Russian Ballet and Coronation. A rare copy of the deluxe edition, limited to 150 copies, signed by Beaton with paraph, and bound in parchment vellum. The simplicity of the vellum is counterbalanced by the striking and bold floral gilt endpapers, with a pink lilac colourway to the front and white lilac colourway to the rear. 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. 1937. First edition, first printing. From the edition deluxe, in a vellum binding and limited to 150 copies and signed by the author. Signed.

Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1937. First edition, second printing. B.T. Batsford Ltd. London. 1937. First edition, second printing. Hardback, quarto; yellow cloth-bound boards with title in red to spine, dust jacket. 136 pages. Illustrated throughout with over 350 drawings, collotype photographs and coloured plates on varied paper stock; frontispiece and tailpiece by Christian Bérard. English. 290x235mm. 1.1kg. Good, in very good dust jacket; light shelf wear to jacket, a small 1.5cm area of loss at the head of spine, repaired with clear tape to both sides, short 1cm closed tear to rear top edge, toning to spine, a couple of small repairs to verso with adhesive paper, foxing to rear flap and verso of jacket, price-clipped; some mottling and staining to boards, light offsetting to endpapers, some light spotting to endpapers and title-pages, neat contemporary owner's signature to front pastedown dated 1937; with the dust jacket in much better condition than usual. 'On the shelves at Ashcombe, I have now over fifty diaries & scrapbooks, memorials of many violated magazines, repositories of museum picture postcards, theatrical programmes, letters, photographs & pictorial miscellanea which have accumulated since childhood. Christian Bérard suggested to me that a similar scrapbook might be distilled from my own work during the last five years; & that is what has been done.' (Preface).  The Scrapbook is Cecil Beaton's second book, published in 1937. Beaton's photographs and drawings, drawn from the author's numerous scrap albums, are collected together and accompanied by witty essays on subjects such as Christmas, Winter House Party, Mrs Simpson: 20th November 1936, Marlene Dietrich, Garbo, Hats, New York, Dubrovnik, The Russian Ballet and Coronation. Scarce with the dust jacket. 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: Near Fine. 1937. First edition, first printing. B.T. Batsford Ltd. London. 1937. First edition, first printing. Exhibited at 'Cecil Beaton's Fashionable World' at the National Portrait Gallery, 2025. Hardback, quarto; quarter-cloth floral paper boards, matching floral endpapers, without dust jacket. 136 pages. Illustrated throughout with over 350 drawings, collotype photographs and coloured plates on varied paper stock; frontispiece and tailpiece by Christian Bérard. English. 290x235mm. 1.1kg. Near fine; light rubbing to bottom edge, light bump to lower forecorner, slight lean to spine; some mottling to top edge, slight spotting to first few pages, otherwise clean and fresh internally with no inscriptions. 'On the shelves at Ashcombe, I have now over fifty diaries & scrapbooks, memorials of many violated magazines, repositories of museum picture postcards, theatrical programmes, letters, photographs & pictorial miscellanea which have accumulated since childhood. Christian Bérard suggested to me that a similar scrapbook might be distilled from my own work during the last five years; & that is what has been done.' (Preface).  The Scrapbook is Cecil Beaton's second book, published in 1937. Beaton's photographs and drawings, drawn from the author's numerous scrap albums, are collected together and accompanied by witty essays on subjects such as Christmas, Winter House Party, Mrs Simpson: 20th November 1936, Marlene Dietrich, Garbo, Hats, New York, Dubrovnik, The Russian Ballet and Coronation. This copy with the desirable variant binding that uses floral wallpaper for the boards and endpapers. 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. BEATON, Cecil [135] pp. B. T. Batsford 1937 11 1/2" x 9 1/2" Cecil Beaton's second book with the scarce dust jacket. 'On the shelves at Ashcombe, I have now over fifty diaries & scrapbooks, memorials of many violated magazines, repositories of museum picture postcards, theatrical programmes, letters, photographs & pictorial miscellanea which have accumulated since childhood. Christian Bérard suggested to me that a similar scrapbook might be distilled from my own work during the last five years; & that is what has been done.' (from the preface). Beaton's photographs and drawings are collected together here and accompanied by witty essays on subjects such as Christmas, Winter House Party, Mrs Simpson: 20th November 1936, Marlene Dietrich, Garbo, Hats, New York, Dubrovnik, The Russian Ballet and Coronation.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. BEATON, Cecil [136] pp. Charles Scribner's Sons 1937 11 1/2" x 9 1/4" w/ floral rose bud Sanderson wallpaper boards & endpapers On the shelves at Ashcombe, I have now over fifty diaries & scrapbooks, memorials of many violated magazines, repositories of museum picture postcards, theatrical programmes, letters, photographs & pictorial miscellanea which have accumulated since childhood. Christian Bérard suggested to me that a similar scrapbook might be distilled from my own work during the last five years; & that is what has been done.' (Preface). The Scrapbook is Cecil Beaton's second book, published in 1937. Beaton's photographs and drawings, drawn from the author's numerous scrap albums, are collected together and accompanied by witty essays on subjects such as Christmas, Winter House Party, Mrs Simpson: 20th November 1936, Marlene Dietrich, Garbo, Hats, New York, Dubrovnik, The Russian Ballet and Coronation. This copy with the desirable variant binding that uses floral wallpaper for the boards and endpapers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. w/ the rare floral 'rosebud' boards & endpapers. Illustrations throughout in both colour, and black & white.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. BEATON, Cecil [136] pp. Charles Scribner's Sons 1937 11 1/2" x 9 1/2" On the shelves at Ashcombe, I have now over fifty diaries & scrapbooks, memorials of many violated magazines, repositories of museum picture postcards, theatrical programmes, letters, photographs & pictorial miscellanea which have accumulated since childhood. Christian Bérard suggested to me that a similar scrapbook might be distilled from my own work during the last five years; & that is what has been done.' (Preface). The Scrapbook is Cecil Beaton's second book, published in 1937. Beaton's photographs and drawings, drawn from the author's numerous scrap albums, are collected together and accompanied by witty essays on subjects such as Christmas, Winter House Party, Mrs Simpson: 20th November 1936, Marlene Dietrich, Garbo, Hats, New York, Dubrovnik, The Russian Ballet and Coronation.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. BEATON, Cecil [135] pp. Charles Scribner's Sons 1937 11 1/2" x 9 1/4" w/ floral rose bud Sanderson wallpaper boards & endpapers On the shelves at Ashcombe, I have now over fifty diaries & scrapbooks, memorials of many violated magazines, repositories of museum picture postcards, theatrical programmes, letters, photographs & pictorial miscellanea which have accumulated since childhood. Christian Bérard suggested to me that a similar scrapbook might be distilled from my own work during the last five years; & that is what has been done.' (Preface). The Scrapbook is Cecil Beaton's second book, published in 1937. Beaton's photographs and drawings, drawn from the author's numerous scrap albums, are collected together and accompanied by witty essays on subjects such as Christmas, Winter House Party, Mrs Simpson: 20th November 1936, Marlene Dietrich, Garbo, Hats, New York, Dubrovnik, The Russian Ballet and Coronation. This copy with the desirable variant binding that uses floral wallpaper for the boards and endpapers.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, hardcover issue, complete with the scarce dust wrapper. The contents are clean and unmarked with only light browning to the end papers. The dust wrapper has a chip to the head of the spine and inner corner of the front panel, about 1" deep, rubbing to the corners, but overall a very good example, no price clipped. Cecil Beaton's classic work.

First edition, 4to, viii, 135, (1) pp. Illustrated throughout, with a light damp stain throughout to the top and bottom edges Original half cloth over floral boards, spine and edges with some wear and staining.

1st edition, 1937, in floral boards with green cloth at board corners, & yellow cloth spine; floral end papers. Internally near VG, but boards worn at edges; stain at top inner corner of front board; cloth on spine soiled & worn Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket).

First edition, signed limited issue, one of 150 copies signed by the author and specially bound. This lavishly illustrated work includes 34 studies of Beaton's enthusiasms and inspirations, such as Hollywood film stars, royalty, and his travels from Russia to Haiti, all in the form of pictures and his witty essays. Published in September 1937, it appeared at the height of his interwar fame and met a fanfare of publicity in London and New York. Quarto. With 10 colour illustrations, half-tone photographic reproductions, black-and-white illustrations in the text. Title page printed red and black, contents printed in blue and black on white and pink paper. Original japon, spine lettered in gilt, blossom-patterned endpapers in pink, white, red, green, and gilt, top edge gilt. Ownership inscription on half-title. Library stamp on p. 69 and on recto of frontispiece and rear free endpaper. Spine lightly toned, soiling to boards, rubbing and minor wear to edges, sporadic foxing. A very good copy.

First edition, signed limited issue, one of 150 copies signed by the author and specially bound. This lavishly illustrated work includes 34 studies of Beaton's enthusiasms and inspirations, such as Hollywood film stars, royalty, and his travels from Russia to Haiti, all in the form of pictures and his witty essays. Published in September 1937, it appeared at the height of his interwar fame and met a fanfare of publicity in London and New York. Quarto. With 10 colour illustrations, half-tone photographic reproductions, black-and-white illustrations in the text. Title page printed red and black, contents printed in blue and black on white and pink paper. Original japon, spine lettered in gilt, blossom-patterned endpapers in pink, white, red, green, and gilt, top edge gilt. Spine toned, superficial split to head of rear joint, front board bowed, foxing to outer leaves, a couple of short closed tears to fore-edge of final leaves: a very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. BEATON, Cecil [135] pp. w/ Rosebud floral wallpaper boards & endpapers B.T. Batsford Ltd 1937 11 1/2" x 9 1/4" Cecil Beaton's second book with the scarce dust jacket. 'On the shelves at Ashcombe, I have now over fifty diaries & scrapbooks, memorials of many violated magazines, repositories of museum picture postcards, theatrical programmes, letters, photographs & pictorial miscellanea which have accumulated since childhood. Christian Bérard suggested to me that a similar scrapbook might be distilled from my own work during the last five years; & that is what has been done.' (from the preface). Beaton's photographs and drawings are collected together here and accompanied by witty essays on subjects such as Christmas, Winter House Party, Mrs Simpson: 20th November 1936, Marlene Dietrich, Garbo, Hats, New York, Dubrovnik, The Russian Ballet and Coronation.