Cecil Beaton's New York by Beaton, Cecil - 1938

Philadelphia & New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1938. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. At Least Very Good/Very Good. Bright yellow cloth over boards, title stamped in black onto upper board and spine, 8vo (8-13/16 inches tall), top edge stained purple, pp. viii, 1-261, index. illustrated with 117 B&W photographs and two additional photographic collages - one consisting of 13 photos and one consisting of 29 photos, 60 line drawings (inc. one set of 8 illustrations drawn in the outer margins of 2 pages), one line of sheet music and a color illustrated frontispiece. "First Published October 1938" on copyright page. Volume with light wear and rubs to bottom corners, small spots of sunning to cloth from chips in DJ, top edge stain partially faded. Price intact DJ with edge wear, toning and shallow chips from spine panel and flap corners, a chip from the top edge of front and back panels and an 1.5 inch closed tear at foot of front panel. Front and back panels still bright and colorful with "$4.00" price intact at foot of front flap. "Cecil Beaton is as much at home in New York is in his native London, and the book is a record of impressions accumulated as a result of many winters spent in the most astonishing and paradoxical city in the world. He has captured the spirit of Manhattan as only a foreigner can, from a Bowery flophouse to his Louis Seize bed in the Waldorf, from a highbrow party in Harlem to a low brow ball on fifth Avenue." from the front flap.