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Cecil Beaton's Scrapbook
by Beaton, Cecil
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: B. T. Batsford. Very Good- in Fair dust jacket. 1937. First Edition. Hardback. Very scarce edition, still in dust jacket w/ a number of notable splits and tears, though still intact, now covered in removable archival film; Boards half bound in yellow cloth on spine and green cloth on corners, as well as colourful floral paper, slightly edge-worn; Pages lightly spotted on edges, same floral paper used for endpapers, previous owner's dedication on half-title and bookplate on verso of ffep, light spotting throughout text block, B&W plates and a number of full colour illustrations; Binding tight. ; 9.25 x 11.5"; 136 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walden Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 52501
- Title
- Cecil Beaton's Scrapbook
- Author
- Beaton, Cecil
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Fair dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- B. T. Batsford
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1937
Terms of Sale
Walden Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Walden Books
Biblio member since 2010
London, Greater London
About Walden Books
Second-hand and antiquarian booksellers since 1977, in present shop since 1979, open Thurs-Sunday, with an emphasis on History of Art and Architecture, Photography, Literature and Poetry, Literary Biography and Criticism and the the History of London.
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Half Bound
- ...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
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