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Allan Wingate, 1953. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1953. First Published. 99 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with decorations. Black and white photographs and illustrations throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and photographs have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscription and sticker to front pastedown and endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Water marking to front board.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Very Good+. 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [modest browning to spine cloth, slight fading along several edges]. (B&W photographs, graphics) "An alphabetical anthology of unique human beings; a portrait gallery in words and photographs of a hundred living people whom we, its self-appointed curators, both admire. Here are no lawyers, no heads of state, no professional footballers [because] these callings, admirable as they are, lie outside the range of our immediate interests. Honesty dictated that our bias be towards actors, actresses, writers, painters, dancers and clowns. One politician has slipped in; so has a horse; but these are exceptions. We sought, as we made our choice, certain qualities; chief among them were craftsman ship, energy, elegance, wit, and a dash of the unpredictable." Further: "The authors would like to make it clear that Mr. Beaton had no hand in the text, and that Mr. Tynan took none of the… Leer más

New York: Putnam. Good in Good dust jacket. 1954. Hardcover. 99 pages, many b/w photos. , dustjacket a bit rubbed but attractive, there are several scraped spots to the dustjacket and wear to the corners, the book is in nice condition. ; lg. 8vo .

Wingate, 1953T. hardcover. Good. 2.0305 in x 23.0964 in x 18.7817 in. Wingate 1953 first edition. Pages clean and bright, inscripiton on first page, binding split in places, minor shelf wear to cover.

London, Wingate 1953.. 4to. 100pp. + 64 plates of portraits by Beaton. Original pale blue boards blocked in silver in dustwrapper, a very good copy.. First edition.

Putnam. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1953. First Edition. Hardback. Dust jacket lightly worn w/ a number of small creases and splits at edges, minute losses at either end of spine, chipped down edge of spine, age-toned; Blue paper boards sunned at bottom edge, slight flecked staining, gilt lettering bright; Light offsetting and spotting on endpapers, previous owner's signature on front pastedown, no annotation, B&W plates; Binding tight. ; 7.1 x 9.6"; 99 pages .

G/G. Jacket in mylar. Spine edges chipped, edge rub, rear panel tear, boards faded

New York: Putnams, 1954. First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Small quarto; original cloth, DJ. pp. 99. Much nicer than usual copy in jacket. Illustrated throughout.

New York: Putnam, 1954. First U.S. . Hard. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. A nice copy of this collection of biographical sketches. Text by Tynan, photos and jacket design by Beaton. First U.S. printing. Near fine, save browning on pages facing spots where non-archival tape was used to affix protective jacket cover. Also, a crease in the Cole Porter photo. Jacket has tiny chip at base of spine, some wear at front edge and where front panel of jacket meets spine, else quite good.

London: Allan Wingate,, 1954. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. Clean, very good indeed in a slightly edeg nicked, very good indeed dust jacket. 2nd impression 1954.

New York: Putnam, (1954), 1954. First American edition. 4to; 99 pp.; illustrated from photographs by Cecil Beaton. A very good copy in a good dust jacket.with some wear to spine ends. Beaton and Tynan's collection of photographs of and essays of the important figures in the arts at mid-century..

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1954. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First American edition from British sheets. Quarto. About fine in spine-darkened else very good or better dust jacket. A nice copy of this uncommon book of photographs by Beaton of celebrities and artists, accompanied by the critic Tynan's commentary. A handsome copy with a nice example of the attractive Rex Whistler-designed jacket.

London: Allan Wingate, (1953). First edition, first printing. This is a near fine copy. The dust wrapper, designed by Cecil Beaton, has some light wear. It has not been price clipped, showing the original 21s net price. There are some tape repairs on the verso at the spine ends. The boards are free from notable chips and marks, with the silver tooling bright and clean. The text blocks are free from foxing and are overall bright. This copy is free from inscriptions and is, overall, in near fine condition. £115An anthology of unique human beings.

London: Allan Wingate, 1953. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. small quarto. Prior owner details to flyleaf. 1st printing. Spine sunned. Boards grubby, otherwise very good.

London: Wingate, 1953. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Very Good. 9.5" by 7". Cecil Beaton. A superb first edition of this wonderful Cecil Beaton work, a collection of portraits of famous people of the time, in his original colourful dustwrapper. The first edition of this work.In the original unclipped bright and colourfully illustrated dustwrapper.Publisher's review copy, with a slip loosely inserted.A selection of beautiful portrait photographs by Cecil Beaton, portrayals of the celebrities of the mid twentieth century.Portraits included in this work include Judy Garland, Greta Garbo, Nancy Mitford, Colette, Pablo Picasso, Graham Greene, Laurence Olivier, and more.Illustrated with sixty-four plates.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'. Described by Kenneth Tynan. In the original… Leer más