Edited by David Cecil (21 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 256 pages, illustrations (some colour), 1 map, facsimiles, portraits (some colour); 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Lower right corner lightly bumped. Age toning, edges lightly soiled. Profusely illustrated. *** "Presents a collection of the works of English fashion, portrait and war photographer, diarist, painter, interior designer and an Academy Award winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre, Cecil Beaton (1904-1980). Beaton is best known for his fashion photographs and society portraits. He worked as a staff photographer for Vanity Fair and Vogue, during the 1930's and 40's, in addition to photographing celebrities in Hollywood. Queen Elizabeth and the Queen Mother was his favorite Royal subjects, in addition to taking the famous wedding pictures of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Included are articles on various aspects of Beaton's art. The essay writers discuss Beaton's love of theatricality and artifice and its evidence in his style: subjects posed in period costume, shot against or reflected in mirrors, the photographer's own reflection visible in a photo, ironic and sometimes severely unflattering angles. Even his wartime photos have the oddly displaced quality of a stage set." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Beaton's beauties: self-representation, authority and British culture, by Dr David Mellor; Chronology: snapshots in time: a working life, by Terence Pepper; A fly in amber: Beaton as diarist, by Hugo Vickers; An instinct for style: the fashion photography of Cecil Beaton, by Philippe Garner; Landscape, nation and ideology: the role of the garden in Cecil Beaton's art, by Ian Jeffrey; Eggie's pupil: Beaton as artist, by Michael Parkin; The tyranny of the eye: the theatrical imagination of Cecil Beaton, by Ian Jeffrey and Dr. David Miller; Open secrets: identity, persona, and Cecil Beaton, by Stuart Morgan; [1.] Colour plates; [2.] The catalogue; Bibliography of Cecil Beaton's works; General bibliography; Acknowledgements; Photographic acknowledgements; Index of lenders; General index. Size: 4to.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st. Cloth, vii, 252 pages, chiefly illustrations; 34 cm. Topstained brown. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Stated First American Edition. Price-clipped dust jacket with closed tears/back cover & a sunned spine (bold & legible titles). OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. A massive coffee-table book. Profusely illustrated. *** "A photograph collection of Victorian portraits collected by Julia Margaret Cameron and gifted as a photograph album to her sister Mia (Maria) Jackson in 1863. The original album was made up of two parts, the first part being photographs taken by Julia Margaret Cameron and the second part taken by other prominent Victorian era photographers." - Publisher. Size: Folio. …

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition (stated) in unclipped dust jacket, no markings, NOT ex-lib, light shelf/edge wear to jacket spine ends & corners, else Fine; 8vo; 390pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine Dust Jacket. First Edition. CLEAN Fine 1975 First American Edition HARDCOVER with Fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Cream faux-leather covers, sound binding, clean pages and plates, light foxing to end-papers, Light shelf-wear on upper edge of dust-jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 78124121028. All our books are sent by tracked mail.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Contents: Reflections / D.B. Quinn -- The writings of D.B. Quinn -- Outthrust and Encounter / P.E.H. Hair -- Ethiopia and Europe, 1200-1650 / C.F. Beckingham -- The Portuguese in the Far East / Rebecca Catz -- Russian penetration into Siberia up to 1800 / Terence Armstrong -- Finding Columbus: implications of a newly-discovered text / David Henige -- Drake on the Pacific coast of North America / Norman J.W. Thrower -- The reluctant go-between: John Ley's survey of aboriginal settlement on the Guayana coastline / Joyce Lorimer -- Thevet and the English / P.E.H. Hair -- Anson at Canton, 1743 / Glyndwr Williams -- The New World and the Italian Renaissance / Cecil H. Clough. 348 p., ill. ; 21 cm. Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.…

Unbound. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Publisher's advertisement. Single octavo sheet folded to make four pages. Measuring 3½" x 8½" closed. Tiniest crease at the foredge of each conjugate leaf else fine. Prints complimentary blurbs and a list of the over 100 poets represented.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 390pp. Purple cloth boards with gilt titles to spine in unclipped dustwrapper. Bookplate and signature of actress Liza Goddard to ffep and additional dated signature by Goddard to fep. Covers lightly worn at extremities with light crease to spine. Some wear to closed edges. Dustwrapper lightly rubbed and sunned with some chips and short closed tears to extremities.…

Paperback. Condition: New. Soft Cover. Book Palace Books Winter 2012. The sumptuous ART quarterly presenting the world's finest illustrators. 1st Edition. Book condition: New. Full Colour illustrations. Features in issue 2 include: David Wright - a brush with Fitzrovia and his elegant art; My Affair with Carol Day - Roger Clark confesses all; Cecil Doughty - Blades and Brocades; Raymond Sheppard - his Iridescent World Under the Great Arch of Heaven; Renato Fratini and his urbane art; John Watkiss gets under the skin of the Walking Dead; Jordi Penalva - his Fleetway Super Library covers plus our regular features including The Bookshelf and Letters. illustrators is the art quarterly devoted to the finest illustration art ever published. With its unique blend of art and insight, it guides you through the stories behind the artists and their art, with features written by some of the leading authorities on this vital art form. As well as building into an indispensable reference library, illustrators gives readers an insight into the creative process, from the initial idea to the image potentially seen by millions. Truly fabulous artwork abounds in every issue, much of the art taken from scans of the original work. A Book Palace Books publication. 96 pages. Size: 9" x 11" (216mm x 280mm). (0.7). Cecil Doughty, David Wright, Raymond Sheppard, Renato Fratini, et al (illustrator).…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. 560 pp. Message to previous owner to inside cover. Small brown mark to end pages from removal of old paper clip.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).…

paperback. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Jacket Frayed Over Spine Ends Ans Edges Also A Little Frayed Over Board Corners. Spine Shows Denting To Ends. Boards Clean With Binding Tight And All Pages Clean Bar An Inscription Within Cover. Photo Supplied By Site Not Seller And Will Not Represent Actual Copy.…

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Type: Book D/J complete but repair internally to head and tail of d/j spine.

Hardback. Condition: nrFine. VG- Pc DW. 1st Edition. Owner's embossed stamp on title page. Small vendor's label on front pastedown. Purple cloth, gilt. Text edges lightly spotted ELSE book is in nearly fine condition with only slightest signs of wear and/or age. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is price clipped, and a bit faded and chipped.…

Condition: Very Good. Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press/Little,Brown, Boston, 1970. First Edition, First Printing. FINE hardcover book in FINE- dust-jacket. NOT remainder marked. NOT price-clipped. NOT faded. NOT a book club edition. NOT an ex-library copy. All of our books with dust-jackets are shipped in fresh, archival-safe mylar protective sleeves.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. nice copy but a couple of chips to dust jacket.

Condition: Very Good. Publisher's original colour illustrated card covers with front cover drawn by H. Barklam. Oblong 8vo 5½'' x 8¼''. Colour armorial coat of arms to the title page. Colour and monochrome illustrations throughout, colour maps to the end papers. Damp stain to the top corner of the rear pages and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper as published. Member of the P.B.F.A. HERTFORDSHIRE.…

Publishers Cloth. Condition: Very Good Plus. Very Good Plus. Book measures 10 x 7 1/4 inches. xxviii, 248pp, illustrated. Bound in original publishers blue cloth, with gilt title lettering. Slightly lean on spine. Binding in very good clean firm condition. Dust jacket in very good clean condition. Internally, pages clean throughout. A nice clean copy. Size: 8vo. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex library book, usual markings. Hardback with dust cover. Clean copy. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. CECIL, David [edited by] [390] pp. Little, Brown and Company First American Edition 1970 7 3/4" x 5 1/8" Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm (24 August 1872 20 May 1956) was an English essayist, parodist and caricaturist under the signature Max. He first became known in the 1890s as a dandy and a humorist. He was the drama critic for the Saturday Review from 1898 until 1910, when he relocated to Rapallo, Italy. In his later years he was popular for his occasional radio broadcasts. Among his best-known works is his only novel, Zuleika Dobson, published in 1911. His caricatures, drawn usually in pen or pencil with muted watercolour tinting, are in many public collections.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. A slight smudge on the front board, else fine in an attractive, very good or better dustwrapper with some smudges on the front panel. The front pastedown bears the large bookplate of Arthur Leonard Ross, an attorney who represented many authors, including Frank Harris, as literary executor, as well as defended Emma Goldman. David Cecil has Inscribed the bookplate, and Tate has Inscribed the book: "Inscribed to Arthur Leonard Ross with the kindest regards of his friend Allen Tate. Sept. 26, '59.".…