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Ashcombe : The Story Of A Fifteen Year Lease by Beaton, Cecil - 1949

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Ashcombe : The Story Of A Fifteen Year Lease by Beaton, Cecil - 1949

Ashcombe : The Story Of A Fifteen Year Lease

by Beaton, Cecil

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The First UK printing published by Batsford, London in 1949. The BOOK is in Very Good++ condition. Light pushing and fading at the spine ends with the gilt titling remaining bright. Russet top-stain is present. Some very light spotting to the text-block and prelims which has very slightly encroached onto some page edges in a few places. Mild offsetting to the end-papers. Free from inscriptions and erasures. The WRAPPER is neatly price-clipped and is in Very Good+ condition with some mild edge-wear and creasing at the spine ends and edges. A little loss at the spine ends with some rubbing to the spine folds and some fading of the colouring and toning to the spine. A 3cm closed tear to the lower front spine fold. Some small areas of rubbing in places. The wraparound wrapper artwork by Rex Whistler looks very attractive in the removable Brodart archival cover. Numerous B/W photographic plates and B/W illustrations by Rex Whistler et al. ' 'Ashcombe' is the name of the country house in the Wiltshire Downs whose lease Cecil Beaton held for the fifteen years from 1930. In this book Mr. Beaton has wonderfully succeeded in recreating the atmosphere of those days'.'the weekends, when there would be visit from Rex Whistler, Edith Olivier, Augustus John, Tilly Bosch, Lord David Cecil, and so many others.' (wrapper blurb). An increasingly elusive title with the wrapper. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.
  • Bookseller Ashton Rare Books ABA, PBFA, ILAB GB (GB)
  • Illustrator Whistler, Rex et al.
  • Book Condition Used - Very Good++
  • Jacket Condition Very Good+
  • Quantity Available 1
  • Edition First UK Edition
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Batsford, London
  • Place of Publication UK
  • Date Published 1949
  • Keywords Ashcombe, Beaton, Whistler

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Ashcombe: The Story of a Fifteen Year Lease

by Beaton, Cecil

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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. .
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Ashcombe: The Story of a Fifteen-Year Lease

by Cecil Beaton

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9781874336662
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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
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Ashcombe: The Story of a Fifteen-year Lease

by Cecil Beaton

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

by Beaton, Cecil

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  • good
  • Hardcover
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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
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Ashcombe: The Story of a Fifteen-Year Lease

Ashcombe: The Story of a Fifteen-Year Lease

by BEATON, Cecil

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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.
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Ashcombe: The Story of a Fifteen Year Lease

by Beaton, Cecil

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First U.K. Edition
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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.
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Ashcombe: The Story of a Fifteen-year Lease

by Cecil Beaton

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ISBN 13
9781874336662
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1874336660
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Ashcombe: The Story of a Fifteen Year Lease

by Beaton, Cecil

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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.
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