Cecil Beaton the Glass of Fashion

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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Beginning Edition. Fair condition hardcover with no jacket, 1954, 1st edition, second press. Book has some llight general vesture and the backstrip on the spine has detached at both gutters, making information technology loose just present. Binding hinges are ok and volume is readable and usable, perhaps repairable. Volume is bound in red cloth. Interior quite nice. Scarce title. Size: 8vo - 7.5" to ix.5" Alpine. Book.
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Condition: Off-white. 1954. Second Impression. 343 pages. No dust jacket. Red textile boards with gilt lettering. Blackness and white illustrated frontispiece and illustrations. Slight crinkling to paper at gutter. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and foxing to text block edges. Binding is firm throughout with minor thumb-marker. Heavier tanning to free endpapers. Pencil inscription to forepart pastedown. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Slight burdensome to spine ends. Gold lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges. Minor article of clothing marks to boards.
THE Drinking glass OF Way

Beaton, Cecil

Published past Doubleday & Company, Garden City NJ, 1954

First Edition

Hardcover. Condition: Skillful. No Jacket. illustrated (illustrator). 1st Edition. Black hardcover binding a footling soiled, rubbed along edges, Library stamp along lesser border of text cake. Front endpaper removed, endpaper rubbed and torn where a previous dustjacket had been glued down and at present missing. Previous owner proper noun fep. Back pocket intact, back hinge croaky. Bounden integrity ok. 397 pages with index.
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Hardcover. Status: Very Good.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Grit Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Illustrated by the writer. A facsimile reprint edition. Two book auction stamps on front complimentary endpaper, else very expert in a near fine grit jacket.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Decil Beaton (illustrator). 2nd Press. Dust jacket is worn extremities, with pocket-sized loss on tips of spine. Light clammy ripple on lesser from edge of jacket (book non affected), non credible inside Brodart sleeve.
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Hardcover (Original Material). Status: Fair. Starting time Edition. A piffling shelf worn. Gilt on spine is slightly faded Size: Octavo (standard book size). Category: Way, Fabrics & Style; 1950s; For further information on this title, click on the "Ask Bookseller a Question" button directly underneath this listing. We will try to reply within two working days. Buyers from Exterior of the UK are strongly recommended to make contact, to enquire for an accurate aircraft cost, BEFORE buying.
Condition: Good. . Adept dust jacket. (Fashion, Blueprint, History) A copy that has been read only remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few calorie-free stains.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Skilful. Grit Jacket Condition: Off-white. 2nd Impression. Hardback. A very good re-create in the original cloth. In a fair dustwrapper which shows a trivial edge wear and tear and which has traces of superficial damp-staining. The wrapper is at present protected in a clear, removable, sleeve. A clean copy internally with no ownership inscription or foxing. Pp.vii,343. Numerous drawings and photographs by the author. Described equally "A personal history of fifty years of changing tastes and the people who have inspired them.".
7, 343pp. Illus. 4to. Cloth. Inscribed by E. de Rothschild.
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The Glass of Mode

Beaton, Cecil

Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1954., Second impression,, 1954

hardback, 8vo, 343pp, illustrated, pictorial endpapers, pages edges browned and slight foxing, otherwise clean and sound, no inscriptions, cherry fabric, rubbed, Proficient / no dustwrapper.
1989 FACSIMILE OF 1954 1ST FINE /FINE.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 2nd Impression.
1st edition / 1st printing pictorial boards New book octavo 405pp., text ills., alphabetize,
Hard Cover. Status: Skilful. Dust Jacket Condition: Expert. Beaton, Cecil (illustrator). Ex-lib. This is a look at the history of fashion and how social circles and famous figures influence it. Book is an ex-library book in proficient condition with usual markings, soil, stains and edgewear. 2nd impression. 343 pages, 8.v x 5.5.
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Hardcover. Condition: New. New. book.
HARDCOVER. 1954. Second impression. A very good copy only marked past light soiling to the edges of the text block and a souvenir inscription to the half championship page. The contents are fine. The d/due west is unclipped and good with light panel tanning and some loss from the spine ends. Scans available if required.
Difficult Encompass. Condition: Skillful. Dust Jacket Condition: Shelfworn. Illustrated by the Author (illustrator). Second Impression. Good hardback copy in shelfworn dustjacket. 7, 343pp. Illustrations by the author with b/w plates.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Cecil Beaton (illustrator). 1st Edition. Fashion and the art of living .
Hardcover. Status: Very Adept. Grit Jacket Condition: Good. lst edition stated. Illustrated. 397 pages. Illustrated terminate papers. Blackness pictorial stamped cloth with silver lettering. Very proficient plus condition in good grit jacket. Former owner proper name and date on front paste-downwards. Dj corners and spine edges chipped with 1/iv" to 1/2" loss at upper spine edge; a few edge tears and rear panel has crease marks at upper edge.
London 1954. 8vo. Orig. fabric. Dustjacket. viii344pp. With num. full-page plates text-illusts. and illust. end-papers. NOTE: A personal history of fifty years of changing tastes and the people who have inspired them.
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Pictorial Hardcover. Status: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Practiced Plus. Cecil Beaton (jacket) (illustrator). Early Printing. With a gift inscription, otherwise basically a crisp and clean re-create in illustrated black cloth boards, silver gilt lettering, with a little minor fading to top border. Jacket is lightly worn with record repair on the verso and a smallish dark-brown splash on the spine, merely is is otherwise bright and overall intact. Author's photo portrait on rear panel. "Fifty years of wearing apparel and decor".Profusely illustrated throughout by Beaton. A delightful memoir of irresolute tastes and the people who inspired them, and an uncommon championship. .
The Drinking glass Of Manner.

BEATON, Cecil.

Published by Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1954., 1954

Kickoff Edition

8vo. pp. 397. numerous b/w text illus. cloth (faint clammy marking to rear embrace & corner of rear gratuitous endpaper). dw (lacking & stained). First Edition.
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Couverture souple. Condition: Bon. united nations book in-viii�, 281 (1) pp. Couverture illustr�e. (couverture tr�s l�grand�rement frott�e et pr�sentant une fine cerne brune en bordure inf�rieure, le dos pr�sente un petit manque ainsi qu'une petite cerne brune en queue). Rare �dition originale fran�aise illustr�due east des magnifiques dessins en noir et blanc de l'auteur.
Difficult Cover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. VG/VG. 8vo. original crimson cloth gilt (leaf edges and endpapers spotted and a little stained, some offsetting from loosely inserted newspaper clippings, prev. possessor's and bookseller'south small rsms, else clean & brilliant) in dustwrapper (cost-clipped. slightly rubbed & nicked, some toning to spine); pp. 344 (terminal blank), with illustrations + pictorial endpapers. A very good re-create. Contemporary paper clippings relating to Christian Dior etc., loosely enclosed.
The Glass of Mode.

Beaton, Cecil.

Published by Doubleday and Visitor, Inc, Garden City, 1954

First Edition

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. A Later Press with no edition statement on copyright page. A Fine copy in rich black cloth stamped in silver and cerise on spine and front end cover, in a Near Fine dustwrapper, not toll-clipped, with scant vesture to points, rear panel. 397pp. with Illustrations by Beaton throughout text. Q13030.
Illustr past authork, eight.75 10 5.75, red textile, 343 pp with index, covers lightly rubbed, extremities bumped and lightly fraying, hinges loose, contents prissy and clean, in rubbed, edgeworn and toned, spine-sunned grit jacket. FIRST ED. ("First Published in 1954").
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Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Very Practiced. Dust Jacket Status: Poor. Get-go Edition. Inscribed past Author. BEATON, CECIL. The Glass of Fashion, 50 Years of Clothes and Decor: A Kaleidoscope of Changing Tastes and the People Who Inspired Them, octavo, first American edition, Doubleday, 1954, pp. 397, black material boards with lettering in silverish and a red stamped epitome of a fashionable lady on the front, illustrations by the author. Chunks of the dust jacket are missing at the spine, and the jacket is otherwise chipped. All else is sound, with the pages showing some age-toning. Beaton signed the half-title with an inscription to Mickey Martin, probably the dancer and actor Michael Martin-Harvey, with whom Beaton worked. This is the first The states edition. Size: Octavo (standard volume size). 397. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner notation, underlining and highlighting. Bounden is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket has chunks missing, only is otherwise intact, with both flaps. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Bachelor: 1. Shipped Weight: Under i kilo. Category: Fashion, Fabrics & Way; Drawing; Britain/UK; 1950s; Photography. Inscribed by Writer. Pictures of this item not already displayed hither available upon request. Inventory No: 50158.