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The Best of Beaton. With notes on the photographs by Cecil Beaton. Introduction by Truman Capote.

BEATON, Cecil (1904-1980), [CAPOTE, Truman, introduction].

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1968. [Photography] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (31 x 24cm), pp.248. Profusely illustrated with mainly black and white photographs by Beaton. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine, orange endpapers, dust-jacket. Edges toned with the occasional mark, cloth lightly handled. Jacket price-clipped, with extensive amateur repairs to heavily chipped and torn edges using a rough backing sheet pasted to reverse. Very good in a good wrapper. Item #54442

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