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BEATON, CECIL. The Face of the World: an International Scrapbook of People and Places. Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1957, 1957.

Price: US$24.69 + shipping

Description: Quarto quarter bound grey cloth boards, black cloth and gilt lettering to spine, illus., 240pp, VG (moderate fading and scuffing to boards, light tanning and foxing to edges & within, prev. owner's name in pen to fep.) in d/w VG- (moderate scuffing and chipping, segments lost to edges and small triangular segment lost to rear, moderate soiling and tanning)

Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand

Cecil Beaton:. The Face of the World ( An International scrapbook of people and places). Weidenfeld and Nicholson 1957, 1957.

Price: US$25.99 + shipping

Description: Hardback with a worn dustwrapper, some foxing to first and last few pages, otherwise contents are in good bright clean cond. Photographs and sketches throughout.

Seller: Jenny Hurst, Folkestone, United Kingdom

Beaton Cecil. The Face of the World. An international scrapbook of people and places. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1957.

Price: US$27.84 + shipping

Description: In-4°, pp. 240, legatura editoriale t. tela bicroma con titolo in oro al dorso e sovraccoperta trasparente. Interamente illustrato con fotografie e disegni dello stesso Beaton. Tracce di scotch ai contropiatti, qualche fioritura. In buono stato. Sovraccoperta assente. Prima edizione. Autobiografia del grande fotografo, in cui si intrecciano ricordi di viaggio a quelli degli incontri con i maggiori personaggi del XX secolo, immortalati dall'obiettivo di Beaton (Churchill come Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly come Joan Crawford, Berenson come T. S. Eliot, Audrey Hepburn come Maria Callas). Inglese

Seller: Gilibert Libreria Antiquaria (ILAB), Torino, TO, Italy

BEATON, Cecil. The Face of the World. An international scrapbook of people and places. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson (1957)., 1957.

Price: US$38.99 + shipping

Description: First edition, 4to, 240 pp. Numerous black and white illustrations, mostly photographic by the author, the various sections printed on a variety of different coloured paper stock, ink stamp to fly leaf reading "Production Dept. File Copy". Original two tone cloth, mild rubbing to extremities.

Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom

BEATON Cecil.. The Face of the World. An International Scrapbook of People and Places.. , 1957.

Price: US$67.19 + shipping

Description: London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1957. 4to. Orig. cloth. Dustwrapper. 240pp. Profusely illust. 1st ed. Text printed on different coloured papers. Old tape marks on endpapers. Assoc. clippings loosely inserted.

Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia

Cecil Beaton. The Face of the World. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1957.

Price: US$71.48 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: The first edition of this beautiful travel work from Cecil Beaton, illustrated throughout with his original portrait and travel photography. The first edition, first impression of this work, in the original unclipped dust wrapper, designed by Beaton himself.Cecil Beaton's beautiful collection of portraits from around the world, a wonderful tribute to some of the famous people of the time, as well as ordinary people. Some individuals covered in this work include Julie Andrews, Audrey Hepburn, Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh, Grace Kelly, Laurence Olivier, Marylin Monroe, Marlon Brando and Picasso.Illustrated throughout with full page and in-text photographs, as well as Beaton's vignette illustrations, and with a mixture of portrait and travel photography.A number of the pages are printed on blue, yellow, or green paper.A wonderful collection of portraits of the most iconic figures of mid twentieth century popular culture, from renowned fashion, portrait, and war photographer Cecil Beaton, celebrated for his stage and costume design for films and theatre, including his Academy Award winning costume design for the films 'Gigi' and 'My Fair Lady'. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Bumping to back strip head and tail, and board perimeters. Spotting to tail of front board, with a few further light spots to front board head and rear board tail. Dust wrapper front wrap detached from rear wrap and back strip. With only the back strip head remaining, and light chipping to back strip head. Loss to tail of rear wrap. Closed tears and significant edge wear to tail of front wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, with significant spotting to half title and perimeters of first few leaves. Further significant spotting to final seven leaves of text, with plates remaining bright. Very Good

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

Beaton, Cecil. The Face of the World. An Interrnational Scrapbook of People and Places. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1957.

Price: US$97.47 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Dustwrapper slightly rubbed and bumped at top corners and edges; slightly grubby, especially at rear. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall

Seller: Caledonia Books, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Cecil Beaton.. The Face of the World. An International Scrapbook of People and Places. Weidenfeld and Nicolson., London., 1957.

Price: US$163.74 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. London. 1957. First edition. Hardback, quarto; light-blue cloth-bound boards, backed with dark-blue cloth, with gilt title to spine, dust jacket. 240 pages. Extensively illustrated with photographs and text illustrations, on various coloured paper stock. English. 285x225mm. 1.2kg. Good, in fair dust jacket; shelf wear to jacket, light wear to edges and forecorners, areas of loss to head and base of spine, tear to front fold, browning to spine, some soiling and spot marks to rear panel, some neat tape repairs to verso, price-clipped; slight wear to boards, slight bump to top forecorner. From the library of the English actor Edna Wood, with her large dated ink inscription to the front free endpaper. The Face of the World is a scrapbook and compilation of 'a decade of revival', a demonstration of how art and culture had been revitalised after the war years. It contains a mixture of photographs, drawings, and extracts from journals and published articles produced by Beaton in the years from 1945-1956. ‘People Places Pleasures All come under the engaging scrutiny of Cecil Beaton’s camera, brush and pen.’ The title and subtitle of the book (An International Scrapbook of People and Places) reflects the global outlook of the contents. There are articles on London, Paris, New York, Sicily, and Tokyo laid out on hotel notepaper and the ‘Travel Album’ spreads reproduce photographs taken on visits around the world. The portrait photographs likewise demonstrate an international cast of creatives. The usual suspects are there (including Christian Bérard, Picasso, Diana Cooper, Colette, the Royal Family, Evelyn Waugh, Nancy Mitford and Winston Churchill), but Beaton was keen to ensure that the book was up to the minute and so included images of several contemporary stars, such as Albert Camus, Truman Capote, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Maria Callas, Marlon Brando, Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon. Beaux Books specialises in fine and rare books on art and culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. We welcome questions about our books and we are happy to provide any extra images. Buy with confidence from an experienced bookseller.

Seller: Beaux Books, ABA, ILAB, Hartley Wintney, HAMPS, United Kingdom

BEATON, Cecil.. The Face of the World - an international scrapbook of people and places.. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London., 1957.

Price: US$227.42 + shipping

Description: First edition. Quarto. 240 pages. Numerous photographs, including portraits of Sir Winston Churchill, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, Joan Crawford, Audrey Hepburn, Karen Blixen, Camus, Sartre, Picasso etc. Also drawings and designs by the author.The front free endpaper has been replaced. Very good indeed in very good indeed, slightly nicked, price-clipped dustwrapper designed by Beaton.

Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom

Beaton, Cecil. The Face of the World - an international scrapbook of people and places.. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1957.

Price: US$312.75 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: (1957) Première édition anglaise parue la même année aux Etats-Unis chez John Day. Reliure d'éditeur frappée or au dos sous jaquette illustrée, 288 x 228 mm. 240 pages, textes imprimés sur papier de divers couleurs, nombreuses photographies reproduites sur papier couché. Très bel exemplaire.

Seller: La Chambre Noire, Lausanne, VD, Switzerland

BEATON, Cecil. THE FACE OF THE WORLD. AN INTERNATIONAL SCRAPBOOK OF PEOPLE AND PLACES. (SIGNED). Weidenfeld & Nicolson,, London,, 1957.

Price: US$324.89 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First Edition. First Impression Hardback. Dust Jacket. 4to. pp 240. Illustrated throughout with b/w photos. Signed presentation from the author "To Victor Ross with best wishes from Cecil Beaton 18th Jan 1979." Earlier short insc above from 1958 in an unknown hand. Original black and blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, printed on plain and coloured papers. Clean VG+ copyr in near VG used dust jacket a little nicked to corners and head and foot of spine.

Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom