Portrait of New York by Beaton, Cecil - 1948

Batsford. London. 1948 (Revised). 8vo, VIII 132pp. Hardcover, slight spotting on spine; no d/w text in ex cond. Impressions of a city that is mysterious and impressive with each visit; b&w plates.

B T Batsford, 1948. hARDCOVER. Very Good. in x in x in. B T Batsford, 1948. Condition: Very Good (Fine). Clean copy - tight Harcover binding with clear and complete text. Includes a good original Dust Jacket.

London/New York: B.T. Batsford, 1948. Hardcover. Very Good. First with this title. Revised form of "Cecil Beaton's New York". Very good with a faded spine, soiling, light edgewear, lacking the dustwrapper.

London: Batsford, 1948. revised edition. Very Good. octavo. hardback with dust jacket viii + 136pp., frontis., b/w plates, text ills., index, 'My book is less a guide-book than a catalogue of impressions, mostly visual, of a city that, with each visit, becomes, for me, very much more beguiling, mysterious and impressive.' Some use o/w a quite nice copy in grey cloth boards in a very good slightly chipped dust jacket

Batsford, 1948. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1948. revised form. 136 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over grey cloth and red lettering. Contains black and white photographic plates. Binding remains firm.Pages are moderately tanned. Plates remain bright with minimal tanning. More pronounced tanning and foxing to free end papers and pastedowns. Boards have light edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and spine is presentable.Strong tanning to spine and edges. Mild crushing to spine ends causing cloth to fray. Unclipped jacket. Jacket has heavy edge-wear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing. Moderate tanning to jacket spine and edges. Notable tear along front panel and spine fold.

B.T. Batsford. Original boards spine sunned. Revise edition. Internally about fine. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1948.

London: B. T. Batsford, 1948. Closed edges, DJ, and prelims heavily foxed. Cloth also has light foxing. DJ also has sunned spine and light chipping. Contents clean and tight.. First Thus. Cloth. Very Good Minus/Very Good Minus. 8vo.

London: B. T,, 1948. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Very Good. 9" by 6". Cecil Beaton. A revised edition of Cecil Beaton's beautiful and vivid description of life in interwar New York, illustrated with Beaton's photography. In the original price-clipped dustwrapper, colourfully illustrated by the author.Cecil Beaton's vivid and humorous travel work, looking at his time in New York before the Second World War. Slightly satirical, this work looks at the lives of New Yorkers and Beaton's impressions of the bustling city.Illustrated with a frontispiece, sixty-two plates of photographs, and in-text illustrations.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'.A revised edition. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original price-clipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the spine and… Read More

London: B.T. Batsford Limited, 1948. Second Edition. Grey Cloth. Very Good/Very Good Minus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Beaton, Cecil. 135pp. First published in this present revised form in 1948. Originally published (1938) under the title, 'Cecil Beaton's New York'. The text supported by super photographic reproductions. A very good, tight clean copy in a very good minus wrapper. Original publisher's grey cloth boards - red embossed to the spine. The foreedges foxed and the extreme margins of some pages. Light foxing to the endpapers. The wrapper, which has not been price-clipped is almost entirely complete but for some tiny chips to the head and tail of the spine and to several corners. There is a 3.5cm repaired tear to the head of the front panel. Some toning to the spine of the wrapper and three or four small rub marks to the spine. A couple of very short tears to the head of the flaps of the wrapper - now expertly repaired. A very good, tight… Read More

B T Batsford Ltd., 1948. 1st Thus. Hardcover. VG++/VG++. 1st Edition Thus. 14.7 x 22.5 cm grey cloth with red titles to the spine. Top edge tinted red, 135[1] pp with 61 pages of photographic illustrations including frontispiece. In original unclipped jacket priced at 16s Net. Clean boards with firm sharp corners. Internally without name, inscription or bookplate but with some light spotting mainly to the endpapers and the edge of the text block. There is a vertical crease on p61. The dust jacket, which is now protected in a removable, clear cover (not shown), presents very well but has a touch of spotting and tape reinforcement to spine tips and corners of the front flaps on the verso. All in all a very good plus copy of this collection of impressions of New York, a revision of his 1938 book, Cecil Beaton's New York, with new post war illustrations. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All… Read More