Chinese Album by BEATON, Cecil - 1945

London: B.T. Batsford 1945 / 1946. 8vo. (4), + 78 plates, pp. Publisher's decorated yellow cloth. Some spotting to edges of boards. Light foxing to prelims. Otherwise internally clean. With 78 plates of black and white photographs by the author. . Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 1945.

London: B.T. Batsford, 1945. Book. Very Good. Cloth. No DJ. Some light soiling to cover. Pages clean, binding solid..

London: B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1945. Four pages of text followed by 78 pages of b/w photographs. Pages are in very good condition; light foxing on the endpapers and a few pages at the beginning. Bright yellow hardcovers with blue titles. Corners a little bumped and stained. Pink/blue DJ with black titles. Most of spine is missing, large chips on the corners and edges. Jacket soiled. VG-/Poor. First UK Edition. Hardcover. VG-/Poor.

London: B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1945. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. No Dust Jacket. Yellow cloth boards with blue lettering to front and spine. Yellow top edge. Binding tight with light bumping to corners and spine ends. Top and bottom edges of boards slightly darkened. Front board curved and lightly soiled to top. Pages slightly wavy and age toned. Numerous black and white photographs of China. Not ex-library. No names, notes or inscriptions. 78 pages. All books are individually described.

London: B. T. Batsford, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 9x6x0. Some spotting to pages. Spotting to inside D/J. Three inch tear to top edge of D/J with some loss. Rubbing to edges and corners of D/J with darkening.

London: Batsford, 1945-46. 1st edition. Nice copy. small quarto. hardback in decorated cloth 78pp., frontis., b/w pls., No dust jacket, neat ownership stamp to front end paper & light toning to prelims. o/w very nice copy in bright yellow cloth with bright blue titles. Superb photography. Uncommon, especially in this condition

London: Batsford, 1945. 1st edition. Nice copy. small quarto. hardback in decorated cloth 78pp., frontis., b/w plates, Neat ownership signature o/w nice tight, square copy in bright yellow cloth with bright blue titles. Uncommon, especially in this condition

London: B.T. Batsford, 1945-6.. First edition. 8vo. (viii), 77, (1) pp. Publisher's yellow cloth, blue lettered to the spine and upper board, dust jacket Numerous black and white photographic illustrations. Jacket edge worn with losses, most significantly to the head of the rear panel, the book very good.

Great Britain: B. T. Batsford, 1945. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. This is a collection of black & white photographs taken by Beaton, best known for his fashion and society portraits, while traveling through wartime China in 1944 on assignment for the British Ministry of Information; includes a brief introduction by Beaton; "First published, Winter, 1945-46" printed on the coryright page (yellow cloth with blue lettering on front & spine, endpapers slightly wrinkled, introductory pages slightly foxed, otherwise a bright, clean copy)

London: B. T. Batsford LTD, 1945-6. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Very Good. 9" by 7". Cecil Beaton. A beautiful travel work by Cecil Beaton, containing his photographs from a trip to China in the 1940s, in his original colourful dustwrapper. The first edition of this work.In the original unclipped colourful dustwrapper by the author.Cecil Beaton's vivid travel account of his time spent in China, a lovely collection of photographs of the people and scenery of the country.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and seventy-eight plates.Collated, complete.Beaton is a renowned fashion, portrait, and war photographer, well known and loved for his stage and costume design for films and theatre. He won Academy Awards for his costume design for the films 'Gigi' and 'My Fair Lady'. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart, with a little discolouration to the boards and spine. Dustwrapper is a little edgeworn with some chips and closed tears.… Read More