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Cecil Beaton. The Glass Of Fashion. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1954.
Price: US$6.83 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1954. First Edition. 343 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Book has been rebound by library, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Contains black and white illustrated and photographic plates. Pages are lightly tanned with pen marks, rubbing and a few small nicks along text block edge. Slight tearing to half title page, with occasional thumb-marking present throughout. Minor dog-eared corners. Mild cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf-wear with mild corner bumping and slight crushing to spine ends. Book has a pronounced forward lean. Faint tanning to spine.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Cecil Beaton. The Glass of Fashion. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1954.
Price: US$10.29 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1954. First Edition. 343 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white illustrations throughout by author. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Gilt lettering to spine is strongly dulled.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Cecil Beaton. The Glass of Fashion. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1954.
Price: US$12.43 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1954. 343 pages. No dust jacket. Orange cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Cecil Beaton. The Glass of Fashion (Second Impression). Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1954.
Price: US$12.88 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 2nd Imp. Boards have some wear/minor marks. Content has light toning with a prev. owner name to half title page. No DJ
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Cecil Beaton. The Glass of Fashion. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1954.
Price: US$13.70 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1954. 343 pages. No dust jacket. Pink cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are clean and bright, and appear almost good as new. With minimal tanning throughout. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Beaton, Cecil. The Glass of Fashion. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1954.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Fair condition hardcover with no jacket, 1954, 1st edition, 2nd printing. Book has some llight general wear and the backstrip on the spine has detached at both gutters, making it loose but present. Binding hinges are ok and book is readable and usable, perhaps repairable. Book is bound in red cloth. Interior quite nice. Scarce title. Size: 8vo - 7.5" to 9.5" Tall
Seller: Squirrel Away Books, Loveland, CO, U.S.A.
Beaton, Cecil. The Glass of Fashion. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1954.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Dust jacket is worn extremities, with minor loss on tips of spine. Light damp ripple on bottom from edge of jacket (book not affected), not apparent within Brodart sleeve.
Seller: Browse Awhile Books, Tipp City, OH, U.S.A.
Beaton, Cecil. The Glass of Fashion. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1954.
Price: US$33.15 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good hardback copy in shelfworn dustjacket. vii, 343pp. Illustrations by the author with b/w plates.
Seller: Theologia Books, La Charite sur Loire, France
Beaton Cecil. the Glass of Fashion :. London Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1954 first ediiton, 1954.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: cloth Hard cover 8vo. illustrated.343 PP. very good copy. No Jacket.scarce.
Seller: The Compulsive Collector, New York NY, NY, U.S.A.
Beaton, Cecil. The Glass of Fashion. Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, 1954.
Price: US$45.09 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Illustrated with drawings and photographs by Beaton, octavo, pp viii, 343, a signature on the front endpaper, otherwise clean internally, red cloth very slightly worn, binding leaning, still a good copy.
Seller: Mike Park Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$50.39 + shipping
Description: hard cover, red cloth, clipped dust jacket, 343pp including index, illustrated endpapers, bw photographs and bw line drawings in the text by the author, bw portrait frontis drawing by Augustus John, dj has tear on lower front corner, other small chips and tears, light foxing to endpapers and edges of text block, cloth is lightly faded on outer edges, spine of jacket darkened, now in removable protective plastic sleeve, no marks or inscriptions, internally in very good condition in very good dust jacket. No ISBN
Seller: Book Fossicker, Clunes, VIC, Australia
Cecil Beaton. The Glass of Fashion. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, LONDON, 1954.
Price: US$64.41 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Fashion and the art of living .
Seller: susan emson, Cirencester, United Kingdom
Beaton, Cecil. The Glass of Fashion. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1954.
Price: US$66.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 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 good condition with usual markings, soil, stains and edgewear. 2nd impression. 343 pages, 8.5 x 5.5.
Seller: Popeks Used and Rare Books, IOBA, Oneonta, NY, U.S.A.
Cecil Beaton. The Glass of Fashion. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1954.
Price: US$69.57 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second impression. Illustrations by the author, pictorial endpapers. 8vo. Publisher's original cloth, edge worn, gently discoloured fore-edge, spine leaning a fraction, contents clean and sound, discreet ink ownership, price-clipped pictorial dust wrapper designed by CB, this with significant tape repairs and chipping, nevertheless reasonably complete, still a very good copy of an uncommon title, "a personal history of fifty years of changing tastes and the people who have inspired them" - jacket will come in a protective plastic sleeve. vii, 343pp.
Seller: B. B. Scott, Fine Books (PBFA), London, UK, United Kingdom
Cecil Beaton.. The Glass of Fashion. Weidenfeld and Nicolson., London., 1954.
Price: US$202.91 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. London. 1954. First edition, second impression (published one month after the first impression). Hardback, octavo; red cloth-bound boards, dust jacket. viii, 343 pages. Portrait frontispiece, 16 hors-texte b&w photographic plates and numerous line drawings in the text. English. 225x155mm. 0.8kg. Very good, in good dust jacket; light wear to jacket, ruffling to forecorners and spine ends, slight loss to head of spine, some tears to head of spine and top edge with creasing, repaired with tape to verso, browning to spine and fore-edges, not price-clipped; light lean to spine. The Glass of Fashion is 'A personal history of fifty years of changing tastes and the people who have inspired them'. Beaton, with his wit and perfectly turned phrases, ensures that this is no dry history of early twentieth century fashion and design. It is a lively look at the vivid characters who have influenced the style of the time, the designers and the tastemakers, including Schiaparelli, Chanel, Dior, Diaghilev, Lady Diana Cooper, Syrie Maugham, Audrey Hepburn, Diana Vreeland, Christian Berard and many more. The text is accompanied by Beaton's own drawings and photographs. 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. 1954. First edition, second impression (published one month after the first impression).
Seller: Beaux Books, ABA, ILAB, Hartley Wintney, HAMPS, United Kingdom
Beaton, Cecil.. THE GLASS OF FASHION.. Weidenfeld and Nicolson: London, 1954.
Price: US$230.00 + shipping
Description: Illustr by authork, 8.75 x 5.75, red cloth, 343 pp with index, covers lightly rubbed, extremities bumped and lightly fraying, hinges loose, contents nice and clean, in rubbed, edgeworn and toned, spine-sunned dust jacket. FIRST ED. ("First Published in 1954").
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
BEATON, Cecil. The Glass of Fashion. Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1954.
Price: US$257.65 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: BEATON, Cecil. The Glass of Fashion. London: Weidenfeld &Nicholson, 1954. First edition, first printing. A classic work on the history of fashion and the personalities who shaped the tastes and styles of the 20th century. Across eighteen chapters, complemented by more than 150 of his own line drawings and photographs, Beaton writes with great wit about the influence of luminaries such as Schiaparelli, Chanel, Dior, Lady Diana Cooper, Greta Garbo, Audrey Hepburn and, Diana Vreeland, as well as relatively unknown muses like his Aunt Jessie, who gave him his first glimpse of the grown-up world of fashion. In a very attractive dust jacket by Beaton. viii, 343 pages. Portrait frontispiece, b&w photos, line drawings. 8vo, original red cloth boards, slight lean to spine. Very good in very good dust- jacket (a few minor chips, nicks, and short tears; spine slightly browned; price-clipped).
Seller: Chase Rare Books, Fulmer, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Beaton, Cecil. The Glass of Fashion. 1954 Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1954, 1954.
Price: US$354.27 + shipping
Description: A first edition, first printing published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson in 1954. A very good book with staining to the page edges - small owner's stamp to the top of the rear of the front endpaper. Spotting to the page edges. In a very good clipped with stain to the front panel and some browning to the spine. A little edgewear and stain to the rear panel.
Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom
Price: US$592.60 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: VG++ in VG d/w (chips at head of spine, 1/4" tear), unprice-clipped. Brown cloth boards. 6"x8.5". 343pp inc. index. 16 black and white photographs, numerous in-text line drawings. Dedicated by Beaton on title page: "To Alicia [Markova] with love from Cecil." The ballerina was one of his subjects. Nice clean and tight copy.
Seller: Osterley Bookshop, Isleworth, United Kingdom
Cecil Beaton. The Glass of Fashion. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1954.
Price: US$662.93 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Beaton, Cecil. The Glass of Fashion London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1954 First edition, second impression (July 1954). A classic of the history of fashion, this work is a witty analysis of the development of fashion during the first half of the twentieth century, through the influence of designers such as Chanel and Dior, and tastemakers such as Audrey Hepburn, Diana Vreeland and Lady Diana Cooper. This work is complemented by more than 150 of Cecil's own line drawings and 16 black and white photographs. Despite being primarily know as a photographer, Cecil Beaton authored more than thirty books in his lifetime. In original dust wrappers, chipped and worn at edges, a very good copy. 343 pp. 21,5 x 13,5 cm.
Seller: Feheri Books, Veszprem, Hungary