BEATON, Cecil.

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Cecil Beaton's Scrapbook. 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.

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