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