Persona Grata by BEATON, CECIL & TYNAN, KENNETH - 1953

Allan Wingate, 1953. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1953. First Published. 99 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with decorations. Black and white photographs and illustrations throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and photographs have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscription and sticker to front pastedown and endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Water marking to front board.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Very Good+. 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [modest browning to spine cloth, slight fading along several edges]. (B&W photographs, graphics) "An alphabetical anthology of unique human beings; a portrait gallery in words and photographs of a hundred living people whom we, its self-appointed curators, both admire. Here are no lawyers, no heads of state, no professional footballers [because] these callings, admirable as they are, lie outside the range of our immediate interests. Honesty dictated that our bias be towards actors, actresses, writers, painters, dancers and clowns. One politician has slipped in; so has a horse; but these are exceptions. We sought, as we made our choice, certain qualities; chief among them were craftsman ship, energy, elegance, wit, and a dash of the unpredictable." Further: "The authors would like to make it clear that Mr. Beaton had no hand in the text, and that Mr. Tynan took none of the… Read More

Wingate, 1953T. hardcover. Good. 2.0305 in x 23.0964 in x 18.7817 in. Wingate 1953 first edition. Pages clean and bright, inscripiton on first page, binding split in places, minor shelf wear to cover.

London, Wingate 1953.. 4to. 100pp. + 64 plates of portraits by Beaton. Original pale blue boards blocked in silver in dustwrapper, a very good copy.. First edition.

Putnam. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1953. First Edition. Hardback. Dust jacket lightly worn w/ a number of small creases and splits at edges, minute losses at either end of spine, chipped down edge of spine, age-toned; Blue paper boards sunned at bottom edge, slight flecked staining, gilt lettering bright; Light offsetting and spotting on endpapers, previous owner's signature on front pastedown, no annotation, B&W plates; Binding tight. ; 7.1 x 9.6"; 99 pages .

G/G. Jacket in mylar. Spine edges chipped, edge rub, rear panel tear, boards faded

New York: Putnams, 1954. First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Small quarto; original cloth, DJ. pp. 99. Much nicer than usual copy in jacket. Illustrated throughout.

New York: Putnam, 1954. First U.S. . Hard. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. A nice copy of this collection of biographical sketches. Text by Tynan, photos and jacket design by Beaton. First U.S. printing. Near fine, save browning on pages facing spots where non-archival tape was used to affix protective jacket cover. Also, a crease in the Cole Porter photo. Jacket has tiny chip at base of spine, some wear at front edge and where front panel of jacket meets spine, else quite good.

London: Allan Wingate,, 1954. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. Clean, very good indeed in a slightly edeg nicked, very good indeed dust jacket. 2nd impression 1954.

New York: Putnam, (1954), 1954. First American edition. 4to; 99 pp.; illustrated from photographs by Cecil Beaton. A very good copy in a good dust jacket.with some wear to spine ends. Beaton and Tynan's collection of photographs of and essays of the important figures in the arts at mid-century..