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
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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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- Half Bound
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- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- 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...