My Royal Past by Beaton, Cecil ; Baroness Von Bulop - 1939

John Day, 1960. Unknown Binding. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket in acceptable condition. Cover and binding are worn but intact. A reading copy in fair condition. Wear and tear to dust jacket, now wrapped in protective sleeve. Internally clean. Light stains to cover boards. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

London: B. T. Batsford, 1939. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket issued. Shelf wear, edging and soiling to covers. Spine-ends and board edges rubbed and toned. First edition.

B. T. Batsford. London. 1939. Batsford. 1939. First edition. 4to hardback. No DW. Orange cloth, soiled and spotted. Illustrated with colour frontis., decorations and drawings all by Beaton plus photographs of Beaton and his friends, dressed in ball dresses, etc to appropriately add to the glorious spoof biography that this is. Could be seen to contain some of the earliest examples of deep-fake photos. Pages browned, endpapers lightly foxed otherwise clean and sound.

London: B. T. Batsford LTD, 1939. First edition. Cloth. Good. 10" by 7.5". Cecil Beaton. The first edition of this satirical Cecil Beaton novel, an illustrated account of the life of a fictional Baroness. The first edition of this work.Cecil Beaton's entertaining faux-memoir on the Baroness von Bulop, a fictional aristocratic woman whose reminiscences form this novel.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, thirty-two plates, and full-paged and in-text illustrations.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'.Without the original dustwrapper.Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front endpaper. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally smart, with some marks to the boards and spine. Light rubbing and discolouration to the spine. A couple of small cracks to the rear… Read More

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1960. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good Indeed. 8.5" by 5.5". Cecil Beaton. An illustrated satirical novel by Cecil Beaton, poking fun at the aristocracy, illustrated by Beaton throughout. In the original unclipped dustwrapper.Cecil Beaton's entertaining faux-memoir on the Baroness von Bulop, a fictional aristocratic woman whose reminiscences form this novel.Illustrated with a frontispiece, twenty-two plates, and in-text illustrations.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'.'File Copy' label taped to the recto to the front endpaper, with a 'Production Dept. File Copy' stamp.A revised edition of this work. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, generally smart, with marks to the boards and spine. Light bumping to the spine. Some light spots… Read More

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1960. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8.5" by 5.5". Cecil Beaton. Cecil Beaton's entertaining novel about an aristocratic woman, the Baroness von Bulop, an amusing work with Beaton's illustrations. In the original unclipped dustwrapper.Cecil Beaton's entertaining faux-memoir on the Baroness von Bulop, a fictional aristocratic woman whose reminiscences form this novel.Illustrated with a frontispiece, twenty-two plates, and in-text illustrations.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'.Stamp to the recto to the front endpaper, numerical ink to the half-title.A revised edition of this work. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, generally smart, with some marks to the boards and spine. A little bumping to the spine and extremities. Stamp to… Read More

London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1960. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Provenance: Bookplate of J.L. of Woodview. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xiv, 105p : ill ; 23cm. Subjects: Aristocracy (Social class), Europe ; Fiction.