Cecil Beaton, sixteen titles by or relating to him, or with ...

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£80 - £120

Cecil Beaton, sixteen titles by or relating to him, or with dust wrappers or illustrations by him, including: 'The Best of Beaton', intro. Truman Capote, London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1968, 1st edition, 8 colour plates from photographs and over 300 b/w illustrations from photographs by Beaton complete, large 4to (30.5 x 23cm), original cloth lettered in silver, dust wrapper; 'Cecil Beaton's Fair Lady', London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1964, 1st edition, colour frontis + 32 ills. from photographs + b/w ills. in text complete, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper; Cecil Beaton & Kenneth Tynan: 'Persona Grata', London, Allan wingate, 1953, 1st edition, 78 mainly full page b/w illustrations from photographs by Cecil Beaton as called for, being society portraits including Judy Garland, Greta Garbo, Nancy Mitford, Colette, Pablo Picasso, Graham Greene, Laurence Olivier, Truman Capote, Jean cocteau, Marc Chagall, Noel Coward, Katharine Hepburn, Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland, Osbert, Edith and Sacheverell Sitwell etc etc, b/w frontis, colour illustrated title page + b/w decorations, head & tail pieces etc by Beaton, original pictorial cloth silvered, wraparound pictorial dust wrapper by Beaton (21s price intact); 'Photobiography', L, Odhams, 1951, 1st edition, frontis + 60 b/w plates from photographs complete, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper; 'Images', L, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1963, 1st edition, illustrations from photographs throughout, orig. cloth gilt, d/w; Paul Cohen-Portheim: 'The Spirit of Paris', L, Batsford, 1937, 1st edition, colour frontis + b/w ills. from photos throughout, orig. cloth gilt, d/w by Cecil Beaton; 'Quail in Aspic: The Life Story of Count Charles Korsetz, as tape-recorded to Cecil Beaton', L, W & N, 1962, 1st edition, b/w ills. from photos throughout, orig. cloth gilt, d/w; Hugo Vickers (Intro.), 2 titles: 'Beaton in the Sixties', NY, Knopf, 2004, 1st US edition, 'The Unexpurgated Beaton', NY, Knopf, 2003, 1st US edition, each orig. boards, dust wrappers; Richard Buckle (ed.): 'Self Portrait with Friends: The Selected Diaries of Cecil Beaton 1926-1974', L, W & N, 1979, orig. cloth gilt, d/w; R.B. Sheridan: 'The School for Scandal', L, Folio Society, 1949, 9 colour costume plates + 5 monochrome decor plates by Cecil Beaton complete, orig. cloth gilt, d/w; plus 5 others (16)