Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$8.27 + shipping
Description: Original gilt-lettered cloth. Lacks dustjacket, else a very good copy. Text in English. Please see description or ask for photos.
Seller: Antiquariaat Hortus Conclusus, Den Haag, Netherlands
Price: US$44.91 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. Original publisher's purple cloth lettered gilt on spine. pp x, 118 with 32pp publishers' catalogue at rear. 134 black and white plates of Paris. 25 by Brassai and others by Beaton, Kollar, Verger, etc. Colour d/w jacket by Cecil Beaton. Sl rust mark from clip at head of first 3 pages, small neat name o/w very good indeed in slightly used near VG dust jacket very slightly chipped at edges and slightly rubbed at edges. No inscriptions, not price-clipped.
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
Price: US$51.33 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition (first printing). 8vo. x, 118pp + xxx publisher's catalogue. Purple cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. With decorated endpapers, a colour frontispiece and 133 captioned black and white photographs including four by Cecil Beaton and twenty-five by Brassaï. A minor slant to the binding and just a touch of very light spotting to occasional leaf margins. A very good copy in the magnificent double-spread colour Cecil Beaton dust wrapper, price-clipped and a little nicked at the spine panel ends and corner tips with a little internal reinforcement.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
Portheim, Paul Cohen & Cecil Beaton (D.J. by). THE SPIRIT OF PARIS. London, Batsford, 1937.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Large 8vo, Very Good bit skewed in a Good to Very Good D.J.bit chipped at spine edges and folds, with many photos.(VV6/1)
Seller: NUDEL BOOKS, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Paul Cohen Portheim. The Spirit of Paris. B. T. Batsford Ltd, London, 1937.
Price: US$125.76 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The first edition of this authentic account of the city of Paris by Paul Cohen Portheim, with photographs throughout. The first edition.In the publisher's original cloth with the original clipped dust wrapper designed by Cecil Beaton, the British photographer, painter and Oscar winning stage and costume designer.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and one hundred and thirty-four monochrome photographs, by Cecil Beaton, Brassai and other artists. Collated complete.This work was written by Paul Cohen-Portheim and provides an account and description of Paris. Commended for showing an authentic and realistic portrayal of the city, this work looks at the inhabitants from all classes and walks of life, capturing the soul of the city and its people.Publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth with the original clipped dust wrapper. Externally excellent with two light marks to the front board and minimal shelf wear. The wrap is smart with sunning to the spine, loss to the head of the spine, chips, rubbing to the rear of the wrap, the odd closed tear and edge wear. Internally firmly bound with clean and bright pages. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Cohen-Portheim, Paul.. The Spirit of Paris.. B. T. Batsford., London., 1937.
Price: US$141.16 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 118 pages + 32 page publishers catalogue at the rear, and 132 photographs after Cecil Beaton. Brassai, E. Brucken, Louis Caillaud, Keystone Views ans Aerofilms Ltd, etc. front and back endpapers from photos by Louis Caillaud. Maroon cloth with the wrapper by Cecil Beaton, protected behind clear loose plastic cover. Price intact. Tall octavo. Notes* The German-Jewish author & artist died tragically and suddenly in 1932 in his 30's. On a holiday in Portugal he fell ill and almost helpless and on his own, he managed to get to Paris his adopted city where he died a week later. The images and scenes portrayed are of the café Paris and the last of the old Paris. 1st printing in English.
Seller: Colophon Books (UK), Leek, United Kingdom
Portheim, Paul Cohen. The Spirit of Paris. B.T. Batsford, London, 1937.
Price: US$265.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: DJ chips around edges, spine top and bottom, some foxing front endpapers, text block. slightly cocked From the inside flap: When Paul Cohen-Portheim's Spirit of London made its appearance a few years ago, it was hailed as, both in letterpress and illustration, the perfect " portrait of a city.". In his Spirit of Paris, previously published in Germany but now appearing in English for the first time, the author employed a very similar method, which has resulted in an unbiased and at the same time perhaps more revealing and authentic portrait of the French capital than has been achieved before. Cohen-Portheim was equally at home with workmen, students, artists, middle-class people and that high cosmopolitan society that always has Paris for its centre. His sympathy with these classes enabled him to describe the occupations, amusements and milieu of each with complete fidelity, while his coolly critical yet appreciative eye could note down every significant detail in that brilliant ensemble that makes Paris the most beautiful of capital cities.
Seller: Hayden & Fandetta Rare Books ABAA/ILAB, Horseshoe Bay, TX, U.S.A.
Cecil Beaton. Cecil Beaton's Scrapbook. B. T. Batsford Ltd., London, 1937.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardbound, no Dust Jacket. First Edition. London: B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1937. "Cecil Beaton's Scrapbook" Boards show light wear and have warped slightly. Endpages and page edges show light foxing. The previous owner's bookplate is affixed to the front pastedown. Otherwise in good condition. Interior clean and binding sound. RARE!
Seller: Black Cat Books, Shelter Island, NY, U.S.A.
BEATON, Cecil. Cecil Beaton's Scrapbook. B.T. Batsford, London, 1937.
Price: US$340.63 + shipping
Description: Cecil Beaton (1904-1980) one of the most celebrated British portrait photographers of the twentieth century, is renowned for his images of elegance, glamour and style. This work features studies on Katherine Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo among others. From the collection of prominent Australian photographer, Laurence Le Guay. With his signature. Bound in coloured pictorial boards with cloth spine, 235mm x 290mm, 144 pages, photographic illustrations and drawings throughout, decorative endpapers; a little wear to spine and a few scattered fox marks otherwise a near fine copy.
Seller: Rare Illustrated Books, Surry Hills, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Beaton, Cecil. Cecil Beaton's Scrapbook. B. T. Batsford, London, 1937.
Price: US$513.31 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very scarce edition, still in dust jacket w/ a number of notable splits and tears, though still intact, now covered in removable archival film; Boards half bound in yellow cloth on spine and green cloth on corners, as well as colourful floral paper, slightly edge-worn; Pages lightly spotted on edges, same floral paper used for endpapers, previous owner's dedication on half-title and bookplate on verso of ffep, light spotting throughout text block, B&W plates and a number of full colour illustrations; Binding tight. ; 9.25 x 11.5"; 136 pages
Seller: Walden Books, London, United Kingdom
Beaton, Cecil. Cecil Beaton'S Scrapbook. B.T. Batsford Ltd., London, 1937.
Price: US$641.63 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback, well read copy with some spine wear, with spine starting to come away from book covers, colouring of page edges due to age. Still very useable. Quick dispatch from UK seller.
Seller: Stephen White Books, Bradford, United Kingdom
Beaton, Cecil. Cecil Beaton's Scrapbook. Batsford, London, 1937.
Price: US$936.76 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, hardcover issue, complete with the scarce dust wrapper. The contents are clean and unmarked with only light browning to the end papers. The dust wrapper has a chip to the head of the spine and inner corner of the front panel, about 1" deep, rubbing to the corners, but overall a very good example, no price clipped. Cecil Beaton's classic work.
Seller: Temple Bar Bookshop, Dublin, DUB, Ireland