BEATON, CECIL (1904-1980) - TRUMAN CAPOTE (INTRODUCTION), - The Best of Beaton. With notes on the photograps by Cecil Beaton. First edition.London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1968. 4°., original cloth, dustjacket. 248pp. Numerous captioned black/white and coloured illustrations on plates, including a number of portraits of famous personages, acknowledgements, table of contents. Lavishly illustrated english language anthology of the career of Cecil Beaton, 1904-1980, one of the world's great photographers, stage- and fashion designers, which includes portraits of eminent people of the last four decades of the twentieth century, e.g. Marien Davies, Max Beerbohm, Katharine Hepburn, Orson Welles, Fred AstaireVivian Leigh, Gertrude Lawrence, Madonna, Marlène Dietrich (et.al.). Fashions of the late Twenties and Thirties, Performing artists, War Fashions and after..Very good copy. (tears in dustjacket skilfully restored, some fairly large pieces at rims of dustjacket gone, bold ms. inscription in ink by previous owner at top margin of ti.-p.). EUR 125.00 [Appr.: US$ 142.25 | £UK 106.25 | JP¥ 20276] Book number 50152is offered by:
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