Cecil Beaton, Signed (33 results)

Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Hodder & Stoughton. London. 2021. First edition, first printing. Signed by Hugo Vickers on the title-page. Hardback, octavo; purple boards, dust jacket. 344 pages. Hors-texte colour and b&w plates and several b&w text illustrations. English. 240x160mm. 0.7kg. Fine, in fine dust jacket; as new. Hugo Vickers' account of the journeys he made and the people he met whilst writing the authorised biography of Cecil Beaton. The author draws on the diaries he kept during 1980 to 1985. The pages are filled with meetings with the leading lights of twentieth century society including the Queen Mother, Grace Kelly, Truman Capote, Stephen Tennant, Irving Penn, Horst, Lady Diana Cooper and Diana Vreeland. Writing Beaton's biography was a personal journey for the young Vickers and the diary entries bring back a vanished world, complemented by the snapshots from the author's personal collection. Beaux Books specialises in fine and rare books on art and culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. We welcome questions about our books and we are happy to provide any extra images. Buy with confidence from an experienced bookseller. 2021. First edition, first printing. Signed by Hugo Vickers on the title-page. Signed.

Condition: As New. PFAS26? PLEASE READ - This is a vintage hand signed photo for Gemma?Craven which has been personally signed by the Irish actress where her signature rests perfectly accompanying her portrait.- Please note whilst this is mint condition it does have a long indent to its right corner diagonal - You are buying strictly on this understanding (otherwise outstanding) - On reverse she has written a message to the fan all in her hand writing and it says. "This Picture Was Taken By Sir Cecil Beaton?in 1976" so a double autographed item.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Vickers, Hugo ,Malice in Wonderland, My Adventures in the World of Cecil Beaton ,New ,Signed will be sent boxed and via a signed for method of postage Extra postage will be needed for overseas orders if the weight exceeds one kilo book is signed without dedication unless stated otherwise. All books come with a lifetime guarantee No Coa's issued unless the book originally came with one then it will be included with the book. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. SIGNED by the author at title page. 8vo. vii, 344 pp. Purple paper boards lettered in gold at spine. Corners and spine-ends slightly bumped, very small stain to crown of spine. Jacket edgeworn, light wrinkling to top edge. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Signed by Author(s).

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near fine, slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Rear free endpaper shows a small tear (no loss) repaired with tape. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Notes; Signed by the editor. Physical description; x, 522 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes; Subjects; Beaton, Cecil (1904-1980) Diaries. Photographers Great Britain Diaries. 20th century. 1960s. Illustrated. 3 Kg.

Softcover. Original-Autogrammkarte ( Postkartenformat) mit s/w Fotografie und Signatur / 23 x 20 cm. Rotes Originalheft. 5 nicht paginierte Seiten. Obere Ecken sind eselsohrig. Innen sauber und gut erhalten. Mit dem Beitrag ' Ein Wort zum Thema Musical' von Hellmut Kotschenreuther. --- Das Programmheft enthält keine Darsteller-Fotos, nur ein Porträt von G. B. Shaw. -- Bitte Portokosten außerhalb EU erfragen! / Please ask for postage costs outside EU! / S ' il vous plait demander des frais de port en dehors de l ' UE! // Bitte beachten Sie auch unsere Fotos! / Please also note our photos! / Veuillez noter nos photos -- Lesen Sie etwas Schönes auf einer Bank in der Frühlingssonne! Wir haben die passende Lektüre. -- Wir kaufen Ihre werthaltigen Bücher! WidmO.

Hard. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Pages clean and bright, boards tidy, light shelf wear to edges of dust jacket, 'Signed by the Author' sticker on front of dust jacket. Size: 8vo. Signed by the Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Queen Elizabeth II: Portraits by Cecil Beaton. Signed first edition, second inpression. Signed by the author to the title page. Quarto. 128pp. Includes numerous black and white and colour images. This book is in fine condition. The blue cloth boards are fine, without any bumping or rubbing to the edges or corners. The gilt titling to the spine is bright. The pages are clean and the binding is tight. The dust jacket is near fine, with minor bumping to the top edge and one corner. There a two minor bumps to the front of the dust jacket adjacent to the spine. There is one small 1-2mm chip to the rear of the dust jacket adjacent to the top edge/spine. The dust jacket is unclipped. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition / First Printing. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Signed & Inscribed by Beaton on the front free-endpaper. 8vo, cloth. PLEASE NOTE that all our First Editions are also First Printings, unless we specifically note otherwise. All our dust jackets are protected in clear mylar covers. Good to very good in a very good dust jacket. The spine is slightly rolled from reading, with some rubbing along the edges of the cloth. The dust jacket has a 2-inch closed tear on the rear panel but is otherwise well-preserved, showing minor wear.

Paper. Condition: Good. First Edition. An Original Handwritten and Signed Letter from Cecil Beaton to the daughter of Ottoline Morrell Julian Morrell. Dated 1978. An interesting letter discussing and praising the new book 'Lady Ottoline Album and Tanya. Julian Vinogradoff (née Morrell) (1906-1989), Former wife of Sir Victor Goodman, and later wife of Igor Vinogradoff. English aristocrat, the daughter of Lady Ottoline Morrell. Her twin brother Hugh died of a brain hemorrhage three days after their birth. Julian Morrell first married Sir Victor Goodman, and later married Igor Vinogradoff. She died on 6 December 1989. Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton CBE (14 January 1904 - 18 January 1980) was a British fashion, portrait and war photographer, diarist, painter, and interior designer, as well as costume designer and set designer for stage and screen. His accolades include three Academy Awards and four Tony Awards. After a stroke in 1974, Beaton was paralyzed on the right side and wrote his letters with the left hand. Size is 253mm x 204mm. Condition is good. Light folding creases. Ref 19237. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition hardcover signed to the ffep by Cecil Beaton. Spine a bit flattened, cloth upper extremities faintly mottled/sunned, minor foxing to top edge, white stain to bottom board edge. PO name of Evans Frankenheimer to front pastedown. Evans Evans, American actress, was married to film director John Frankenheimer. The DJ in mylar is price clipped, faintly sunned to spine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 310 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Drawings By Cecil Beaton, Photographs By Beaton And Others (illustrator). 1st Edition. 261 Pp.Yellow Cloth Stamped In Black. First American Printing, Using Sheets Printed In Great Britain. Signed By Beaton On The Front Endpaper. Book With Wear, Lettering Clear But Cloth Shows Browning Particularly On Spine, Small Frays At Corners, Hinges Tight. Dj Priced $4.00, Light Wear, Small Losses Along Top Edges With Internal Tape Reinforcements. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 2nd Edition. BEATON, Cecil [385] pp. Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1961 Second Printing 8 3/4" x 6" Custom Morocco leatherbound and inscribed to Alan Winstanley Best Wishes from Cecil Beaton One of England's finest bookbinders. Alan Winstanley studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts at Holborn, then studied bookbinding and creative art at Luton and St. Albans. He worked for Sydney Cockerell in Letchworth before moving to Salisbury in 1959 at the invitation of Harry Bailey to take on his craft bookbinding business. Salisbury Bookbinders flourished for forty-one years until Winstanley's retirement in 2000. His work was commissioned for wedding presents to Prince Charles and the late Princess of Wales, and he executed the prestigious job of creating and binding the donor record volume for Lord Mountbatten's memorial at Broadlands. Examples of his conservation work and design can be seen in major collections around the world. A characteristically witty family memoir from Beaton. The "Bolivian Aunt" of the title was Beaton's Aunt Jessie, a beauty who married "a rich, moustachioed Bolivian" and lived a life of drama in South America. Jessie's style, fashion, flair and theatricality captivated Beaton. His own family paled against her colourful, exotic personality. Jessie crops up frequently in his autobiographical writings and a chapter is dedicated to her in The Glass of Fashion. Her style also inspired many of his Edwardian-era costume and set designs, including those for My Fair Lady. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. BEATON, Cecil INSCRIBED on FFEP; with all good wishes from Cecil Beaton [310] pp. McGraw-Hill Book Company 1972 9 1/4" x 6 3/4". Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. BEATON, Cecil INSCRIBED on FFEP; Marion with best wishes from Cecil Beaton [310] pp. McGraw-Hill Book Company 1972 9 1/4" x 6 3/4" Cecil Beaton: Memoirs of the 40's is an illustrated autobiography by renowned British photographer/designer Cecil Beaton, published in 1972 by McGraw-Hill, offering a vivid look at his experiences during the war years (1944-1948), covering his travels in the UK, Paris, and America, and featuring encounters with famous figures like Greta Garbo and Picasso. Inscribed by Author(s).

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1938. First edition. American edition. J. B. Lippincott Company. Philadelphia & New York. 1938. First edition. American edition. Signed by Beaton in ink to front free-endpaper - 'Best wishes / Cecil Beaton' with his paraph. Hardback, octavo; yellow cloth-bound boards, black title to front board and spine, purple top edge, dust jacket. viii, 261 pages. Colour frontispiece, over 100 b&w photographs and line-drawings within the text. English. 230x160mm. 0.8kg. Very good, in very good dust jacket; slight toning to spine and folds, light wear to forecorners and spine ends, slight area of loss to head of spine, short tear along top spine fold, not price-clipped; slight spotting to cloth and endpapers, slight dustiness to top edge. A signed first edition of Beaton's witty and glamourous snapshot of Manhattan in the 1930s. Cecil Beaton first sailed to New York in November 1928, it was the first of many annual trips he was to take, spending the winter in a hotel in Manhattan creating portraits and fashion photographs for Condé Nast. It was in New York that Beaton steadily built up a reputation as a leading international photographer, American society embraced him enthusiastically and he was able to earn significant sums of money. Cecil's Beaton's New York is a personal account of the city - its style, exuberance, diversity, people and culture. Beaton translates the visual impressions he has gained from New York into written prose. He talks about the weather, the architecture, transport, the food, the press, crime, the museums, the theatres, and society figures. The text is accompanied by numerous black-and-white photographs and line drawings by Beaton, supplemented with additional press photos and images by photographers such as E. O. Hoppé, Higdon Cato and Ben Sahn. The layout for the book was overseen by Brian Cook of Batsford and Cook devised a vibrant wrap-around dust jacket, bright yellow cloth covers and a purple top-edge. Beaux Books specialises in fine and rare books on art and culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. We welcome questions about our books and we are happy to provide any extra images. Buy with confidence from an experienced bookseller. Signed.

Condition: Very Good. B.T. Batsford Ltd. London. 1937. First edition, first printing. From the edition deluxe, in a vellum binding and limited to 150 copies and signed by the author. Exhibited at 'Cecil Beaton's Fashionable World' at the National Portrait Gallery, 2025. Hardback, quarto; full parchment vellum, gilt title to spine, top edge gilt, floral gilt endpapers, issued without dust jacket. 136 pages. Illustrated throughout with over 350 drawings, collotype photographs and coloured plates on varied paper stock; frontispiece and tailpiece by Christian Bérard. English. 290x235mm. 1.1kg. Very good; slight spotting and soiling to parchment vellum, very slight bowing to boards, small knock to gilt edge, two small stains affecting top- and fore-edge of boards and very edge of final four leaves, slight spotting to prelims. 'On the shelves at Ashcombe, I have now over fifty diaries & scrapbooks, memorials of many violated magazines, repositories of museum picture postcards, theatrical programmes, letters, photographs & pictorial miscellanea which have accumulated since childhood. Christian Bérard suggested to me that a similar scrapbook might be distilled from my own work during the last five years; & that is what has been done.' (Preface).  The Scrapbook is Cecil Beaton's second book, published in 1937. Beaton's photographs and drawings, drawn from the author's numerous scrap albums, are collected together and accompanied by witty essays on subjects such as Christmas, Winter House Party, Mrs Simpson: 20th November 1936, Marlene Dietrich, Garbo, Hats, New York, Dubrovnik, The Russian Ballet and Coronation. A rare copy of the deluxe edition, limited to 150 copies, signed by Beaton with paraph, and bound in parchment vellum. The simplicity of the vellum is counterbalanced by the striking and bold floral gilt endpapers, with a pink lilac colourway to the front and white lilac colourway to the rear. Beaux Books specialises in fine and rare books on art and culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. We welcome questions about our books and we are happy to provide any extra images. Buy with confidence from an experienced bookseller. 1937. First edition, first printing. From the edition deluxe, in a vellum binding and limited to 150 copies and signed by the author. Signed.

First edition of Beaton's Fair Lady, a witty compilation of his personal diary entries recorded while managing the costume and set design of the 1957 Warner Brothers film starring Audrey Hepburn. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Elaine and Arthur Cohen my favorite publishers with thanks and admiration from Cecil." The recipients, Arthur and Elaine Lustig Cohen, were a publisher and graphic artist, respectively. With an autograph letter signed from Beaton to Arthur Cohen on New Yorkâs St. Regis Hotel stationery laid in. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Cecil Beaton. Uncommon signed and inscribed. One most eminent society portrait photographers, set, and costume designers of the 20th century, Cecil Beaton published over thirty books throughout the course of his lifetime including books of photography, satirical fiction, and personal memoirs. He received the 1957 Tony Award for Best Costume Design for the Broadway production of My Fair Lady, and was asked by Warner Brothers to lead the costume and set design for the 1964 film of the same name. Cecil Beaton's Fair Lady is a compilation of Beaton's daily diary entries recorded on the Hollywood set.Â.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. BEATON, Cecil Inscribed (in pencil): to Billy from Cecil w/ love on FFEP [190] pp. Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1976 8 3/4" x 5 3/4" This is the fifth of his diaries and there are 190pp text, together with a number of photographic illustrations by Beaton. "The Restless Years 1955-1963: Cecil Beaton's Diaries" is the fifth volume of the diaries of the renowned British fashion photographer and designer Cecil Beaton, published in 1976. The book contains 190 pages of text and includes photographic illustrations by Beaton himself. It offers a personal account of his life and experiences during the period between 1955 and 1963, a time of significant personal and professional events for him. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. BEATON, Cecil First UEdition Weidenfeld & Nicholson 8.75" x 5.75" Ex-Libris: Mary Anna Marten w/ her bookplates The Wandering Years (1932-1939) 1st Edition 1968 To Mary Anne with love from Cecil [387] pp. The Years Between (1939-1944) 1st Edition 1965 Mary Anna with love from Cecil [352] pp. The Happy Years (1944-1948) 1st Edition 1972 Mary Anna love Cecil [248] pp. The Strenuous Years (1948-1955) 1st Edition 1973 For darling Mary-Anna with love from her affectionate Cecil 1973 [231] pp. The Restless Years (1955-1963) First KEdition 1976 To Mary Anne love from Cecil [190] pp. The Parting Years (1963-1974) 1st Edition 1978 To Mary Anne love from Cecil [164] pp. Beaton, Cecil: CECIL BEATON DIARIES. The Wandering Years 1922-1939; The Years Between 1939-44; The Happy Years 1944-48; The Strenuous Years 1948-55; The Restless Years 1955-63; The Parting Years 1963-74. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1961 - 1976 First UK edition, first printing. Six volumes. Each an inscribed presentation copy from the author to Mary Anna Marten. With 4 autograph letters signed. All volumes with the bookplate of Mary Anna Marten to the front pastedown. The Wandering Years is in very good condition with a slight spine lean, the dustwrapper is faded to the spine with some small nicks at the extremities. Inscribed on the title page To Mary Anna / with love / Cecil. Tipped in to the back of the book are two autograph letters and one postcard from Cecil Beaton to Mary Anna Marten; The Years Between is in very good condition in a good rubbed, torn and chipped dustwrapper. Inscribed on the front free endpaper Mary Anna / with love from / Cecil . There is some adhesive marking on the endpaper affecting the inscription from the bookplate fixed to the front pastedown. Tipped into the rear is an autograph letter from the author; The Happy Years is in near fine condition in a near very good nicked and torn dustwrapper. Inscribed on the title page For Mary Anna / Love / Cecil ; The Strenuous Years is in near fine condition with the very good lightly worn and spine faded dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author in blue ink on the front free endpaper For darling / Mary-Anna / with love from / her affectionate / Cecil / 1973. ; The Restless Years is in near fine condition, in the very good lightly worn and spine faded dustwrapper. With a birthday presentation inscription to Mary-Anna Marten from her daughter on the front free endpaper and inscribed by the author on the half title To Mary-Anna / love from / Cecil; The Parting Years is in near fine condition in the very good rubbed and nicked dustwrapper. Inscribed in black ink on the title page To Mary-Anna / love from / Cecil . Mary Anna Sibell Elizabeth Marten, OBE (1929 2010) was an English aristocrat and landowner who made legal history in the Crichel Down affair. She was born Mary Anna Sibell Elizabeth Sturt on 12 September 1929 at Moor Critchel, the daughter of Napier Sturt, 3rd Baron Alington and Lady Mary Sibell Ashley-Cooper, daughter of the 9th Earl of Shaftesbury, sometime Lord Steward to the Household of George V & Queen Mary, by his wife Lady Constance Sibell Grosvenor (d 1957), a great friend of Queen Mary, daughter of Earl Grosvenor, and sister of Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster. She was god-daughter to Queen Elizabeth (later The Queen Mother), and in 1953 her son Napier was a page at the Coronation of Elizabeth II. After joining the Brownies alongside Princess Margaret, Mary Anna went to school in Lancaster Gate and later attended Cheltenham Ladies' College. Upon the death of her father, Baron Alington in active service in the RAF in 1940, Mary Anna inherited the Crichel House Estate in Dorset. In 1948 she went up to Somerville College, Oxford, to read agriculture, but she did not finish her degree. Mary Anna and her husband, Lt.-Cdr. George (Toby) Gosselin Marten, L.V.O. D.S.C., Royal Navy, (1918 - 1997), son of Vice-Admiral Sir Francis Arthur Marten, K.B.E., C.B., C.M.G., C.V.O., Inscribed by Author(s).

One page printed on both sides, 11 x 8.5", filled-in in blue and red MS, folds, office routing inkstamps and annotations, SIGNED AND DATED BY CECIL BEATON; stapled to a large group of biographical info pages including photocopied bio references, etc. Prepared for inclusion in a biographical reference book of authors. Includes a note to Beaton, with an ink answer: "Sir Cecil Beaton has not ceased to be a photographer to the Royal Family.".

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. ("Anita") in black ink on 1/2 length youthful pose with ribbon in her hair. Photograph is on single stock; 8" x 10"; very good, 1972. Signed and inscribed to book publicist & her agent Jay Allen: "With love to Jay from Anita by way of Cecil Oct. 15th 1972. Jay Allen handled publicity and book tours for Loos' books in the 1960's and 1970's. Loos (1891-1981), American humorous writer; best known for her novel "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" 1925; worked for various Hollywood studios as a writer and script consultant; film career from 1912: "My Baby" 1912; "The Telephone Girl and the Lady" 1913; "The Lady in Black" 1913; "San Francisco" 1936; "Saratoga" 1937; "The Women" 1939; "Another Thin Man" 1939; "Strange Cargo" 1940; "Susan and God" 1940; "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" 1945; "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" 1953; "Gigi" 1958. Signed by Author(s).

I TAKE GREAT PLEASURE The John Day Company, New York, 1. amerikanische Auflage 1956, ERSTAUSGABE, 214 SS. gebunden (Hardcover, hellgrünes Oln. 8°), leichte Gebrauchsspuren - vom Verfasser eigenhändig signiert.

First edition, inscribed by Cecil Beaton on the front endpaper, "For Margaret with Best Wishes from Cecil Beaton". The final of Beaton's six published diaries, The Parting Years chronicles Beaton's final 11 years as he continues to travel, meeting famous friends across the globe whilst saying goodbye to others, before ending with his illness in 1974. Loosely inserted is one sheet of blank notepaper, headed with Beaton's address, Reddish House, Broadchalke, Salisbury, where he lived from 1947 until his death in 1980. Octavo. With 4 double-sided photographs. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Slight bumps to spine ends, contents clean; unclipped dust jacket spine sunned, small open tear to right of tail of spine and small closed tear to top right of front panel: a near-fine copy.

First edition, inscribed by Cecil Beaton on the front endpaper, "To Margaret with Best Wishes from Cecil Beaton". The penultimate of Beaton's six published diaries, The Restless Years chronicles Beaton's globetrotting 8 years between 1955 and 1963, as he flits from one exotic destination to another, in between designing for Gigi and My Fair Lady, the latter of which earned him the Academy Award for Best Costume Design. Loosely inserted is one sheet of blank notepaper, headed with Beaton's address, Reddish House, Broadchalke, Salisbury, where he lived from 1947 until his death in 1980. Octavo. With 6 double-sided photographs. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Slight bumps to spine ends, contents clean; unclipped dust jacket spine sunned, otherwise fine: a fine copy.

First edition, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Mr Kenneth Nicolson, with my sincere thanks for all the care and trouble you have taken over this wonderful printing job, Cecil Beaton". Nicolson was a director at Jarrold & Sons, Norwich, which printed the book. Cecil Beaton's New York is the artist's celebration of the city through photography, sketches, and a series of essays in his distinctive lyrical style. Octavo. Colour frontispiece, 40 plates with illustrations by the author and others. Original yellow cloth, titles to spine and front cover in black, top edge purple. Cloth a little soiled, spine toned, light foxing to edges and outer leaves, ink stamp to title page verso partially erased. A very good copy.

First edition, the dedication copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To my darling Mona, with more love, Cecil". Mona von Bismarck was the fashionable American socialite whom Beaton photographed copiously. She is also well-known for her five husbands and being named "the best-dressed woman in the world" by a group of Parisian couturiers (including Coco Chanel). Octavo. Colour frontispiece, 40 plates with illustrations by the author and others. Original yellow cloth, titles to spine and front cover in black, top edge purple. Bookseller's ticket of Bretano's, Paris, to rear pastedown. Spine slightly toned, head of spine just bumped, extremities lightly rubbed, faint marks to boards, fore edge slightly foxed: a very good copy.

First edition, signed limited issue, one of 150 copies signed by the author and specially bound. This lavishly illustrated work includes 34 studies of Beaton's enthusiasms and inspirations, such as Hollywood film stars, royalty, and his travels from Russia to Haiti, all in the form of pictures and his witty essays. Published in September 1937, it appeared at the height of his interwar fame and met a fanfare of publicity in London and New York. Quarto. With 10 colour illustrations, half-tone photographic reproductions, black-and-white illustrations in the text. Title page printed red and black, contents printed in blue and black on white and pink paper. Original japon, spine lettered in gilt, blossom-patterned endpapers in pink, white, red, green, and gilt, top edge gilt. Spine toned, superficial split to head of rear joint, front board bowed, foxing to outer leaves, a couple of short closed tears to fore-edge of final leaves: a very good copy.

Beaton writes two work related letters to Peter Van Slingerland, a "staff writer" for Look Magazine, on "The Drake" hotel stationery, New York, undated. Beaton stayed at The Drake hotel in 1956 when he photographed Marilyn Monroe there. He was also staying at the hotel in 1961 when he sketched a costume design for the Metropolitan Opera's production of "Turandot" (in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum). In the Sept. 1, 1959 (Volume 23, no. 18) issue of Look Magazine, Beaton's photographs of Japan were published. The group offered here is related to that issue. Beaton writes that he is," Pleased with the choice of your layout & am sending you suggested captions for one or two of the pictures." He refers to his "forthcoming book Japanese," which was published in 1959. He signs, "Cecil Beaton, " on the second page of the bifold hotel stationery. Beaton includes two pages of descriptions for the Look article in the letter which begins, "I trust you will be able to use some of the enclosed suggestions for captions - I shall be sad if you don't include the picture of the Kimono's being tried [sic] by the Katsma River." This one page letter on bifold Drake hotel stationery is also signed in full, "Cecil Beaton." The enclosed four page descriptions of his photographs were Beaton's suggestions for his photographs' captions and offer offer his view of his own work. "The Geisha's Kimono is sprinkled with flowers that change with the season - orange leaves & crysanthemums [sic] appear with autumn, apple blossom petals with the end of winter - Yet the Geisha fashions remain unchanged.this object de vitrine has an abiding allure.The make-up is traditional & never varies.she has perfected the art of being entertaining and alluring. These Cezanne-[like formations are the mountains seen on the road to Nikko.The monochrome effect is typical of Japan as it is in reality though unlike the picturesque interpretation we see. We see a sudden snow fall descent on the elaborate roofs of the temples of Nikko.curved, carved and gilded.painted with scarlet lacquer.The men shoveling the snow appear as if in fancy dress.This is great sightseeing.Perhaps the book will yield more specific information." The undated typescript is the letter and descriptions typed on "Look" magazine stationery, titled, "Letter and information from Cecil Beaton, Drake hotel, NYC." The enclosed descriptions were written on both sides of one 4to sheet of Drake Hotel stationery and on two sides of a bifold sheet of one 8vo page of hotel stationery. Beaton known primarily as a photographer was also an Academy Award-winning stage and costume designer for film and theater. As photographer, Beaton wrote to Peter Van Slingerland, "staff writer" for Look Magazine who authored a number of articles in the late 1950s and 1960s. He is known for his 1966 book, "Something Terrible Has Happened: The Account of the Sensational Thalia Massie Affair" about a woman raped in Hawaii. The victim's mother, a socialite, was charged and convicted of murdering the man who was believed to have been the rapist. Clarence Darrow defended the mother who served no time for the crime.

showing them both full length in Buckingham Palace, She is wearing a long dress with a tiara and sash and he is wearing naval uniform, each 9½" x 7¼" in mount 11¼" x 8½" in original black morocco Presentation frames by H. H. Plante with gilt monograms at the head, 14¼" x 10", no place, the Queen's signature is slightly faded From 1960 almost all their signed material used autopen signatures so it is exceptionally rare to find genuinely signed presentation photos of the Queen. Sir Cecil Beaton, (1904-1980) was a British fashion, portrait, and war photographer, diarist, painter, and interior designer, as well as an Oscarwinning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre.