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Self-Portrait With Friends: The Selected Diaries of Cecil Beaton, 1922-1974
by Buckle, Richard, ed
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0812908597
- ISBN 13
- 9780812908596
- Seller
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Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
NY: Times Books, div of Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co, 1979. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. 1st Edition. (vi) + list of illustrations, acknowledgments, intro, note on the text; 435 pp, index; captioned full-page photos; 8vo, contents very good+. Brown cloth, gilt lettering spine, spine ends bumped, very good; b/w illustrated dust jacket, price clipped, light edge wear, very good.Cecil Beaton was a photographer and set & fashion designer surrounded by great artists and the social elite. Diary records his life as an artist, friend, and courtship of Greta Garbo..
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- Bookseller
- Abstract Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 033341
- Title
- Self-Portrait With Friends: The Selected Diaries of Cecil Beaton, 1922-1974
- Author
- Buckle, Richard, ed
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0812908597
- ISBN 13
- 9780812908596
- Publisher
- Times Books, div of Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- Diaries, Biography, Photography, Society, Artists
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- Gilt
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