Ashcombe: The Story of a Fifteen-Year Lease by Beaton, Cecil - 1949

Paperback. Very Good.

London: B.T. Batsford, Ltd. , 1949. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Previous owner's signature on front free endpaper. Jacket complete but rubbed and split at fore edge. .

The Dovecote Press, 1999. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,400grams, ISBN:9781874336662

The Dovecote Press, 1999. Book. Fine. Soft cover. FIRST. A NEAR FINE FIRST THUS IN PAPERBACK.

E-230: B. T. Batsford Ltd.. Good. 1949. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by B. T. Batsford, Ltd. , London, UK. 1949. Viii, 124 pgs. Illustrated. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (spine is sunned and faded). Offsetting present to the endpapers. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Text hs notes and marks present to the margins. Binding tight and solid. The author's account of his residence at Ashcombe from 1930 to 1945, with mentions for many of his guests. Ashcombe House, also known as Ashcombe Park, is a Georgian manor house, set in 1,134 acres (4.59 km2) of land on Cranborne Chase in the parish of Berwick St John, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. The photographer and designer Cecil Beaton first visited the house in 1930, taken there by the sculptor Stephen Tomlin together with the writer Edith Olivier. He was later to write of his… Read More

London: B.T. Batsford Ltd, 1949. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. Illustrated from black and white photographs, plates, and drawings. Color frontispiece. Octavo. 124pp. Foxing on page edges and endpapers, edges rubbed, very good in a good only price-clipped dust jacket with foxing and small chips and tears along the extremities. Beaton's recollections of his home Ashcombe from the years 1930 to 1945.

London: B.T. Batsford, 1949. Nice copy in its first printing. Unmarked, tight and square. Two lightly bumped tips. Some offset to front endpaper. Beautifully written memoir of his life in his home in Wilshire between 1930 and 1945. Many photographs by the famed fashion, portrait and war photographer who later did much design work for films. The jacket is reprinted from a painting of Ashcombe by Rex Whistler and it is a nice one. It is partially price clipped and has onlyh light to moderate wear. Scarce. In mylar. . First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

new pb, Beaton

London: B T Batsford, 1949. Pages clean and bright, light spotting on closed edges, some foxing on endpapers, boards tidy, rubbing to dust jacket with some light chipping to edges.. First Edition. Hard. Very Good/Good. 8vo.