Academy Award–winning British photographer and costume and production designer (1904–1980). Signed book: Cecil Beaton’s Diaries. First edition. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1961. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6 x 8.75, 387 pages. Signed and inscribed on the first free end page to New York Times columnist Leonard Lyons, “To Leonard Lyons, with best wishes, Cecil Beaton 1968,” with Beaton adding a fabulous full-page portrait of Lyons above the inscription. Autographic condition is fine. Book condition: VG/VG-. Black cloth-covered spine and yellow paper-covered boards; minor edgewear; slight discoloration to spine-ends; light soiling; edges slightly yellowed. Dust jacket in protective sleeve; chips/tears and creases to edges (largest chip at spinetail, approx. 1 inch); one larger tear (approx. 2 inches) from spinetail onto front cover; minor yellowing; slight soiling. Original artwork from Beaton is quite uncommon. Pre-certified PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.
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