Author: Cecil Beaton
Title: The Book of Beauty
Description: London, Duckworth, 1930. First edition. Cloth. 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&apos.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 . Ill.: Cecil Beaton. Very Good Indeed/Fair.

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