Biography & Memoir

Alexis. The Memoirs of the Baron de Rede£250.00

The scarce memoirs of the stylish society figure, the Baron de Rede.

Coco Chanel: A New Portrait by Marion Pike. Paris 1967-1971£80.00

An account of the portait of Chanel by Marion Pike and the ensuing friendship.

Keith Vaughan. Journals & Drawings 1939-1965£95.00

The selected journals of the Neo-Romantic artist Keith Vaughan.

The Private World of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor£60.00

A fascinating album of snapshots and portraits.

Paris Journal 1937-1939; Journal 1936-1937£80.00

The two volumes of pre-War journals of Surrealist poet David Gascoyne.

Dance till the Stars Come Down. A Biography of John Minton£150.00

Frances Spalding's definitive biography of the English Neo-Romantic painter John Minton.

Bricks and Flowers. Memoirs of Katherine Everett£120.00

The autobiography of Katherine Everett, an Anglo-Irish designer of houses and gardens.

The Adventures of a Ballet Critic£15.00

Richard Buckle's memoir of life in post-War London.

Noel£30.00

The life of Noel Coward, told through words and pictures.

Paris Was Yesterday 1925-1939£35.00

A selection of articles from Janet Flanner's fortnightly "Letter from Paris" in 'The New Yorker'

The World of Coco Chanel. Friends, Fashion, Fame£45.00

Edmonde Charles-Roux's visual biography of Coco Chanel.

Eileen Agar. A Look at My Life£95.00

The autobiography of English surrealist artist Eileen Agar.

Serious Pleasures. The Life of Stephen Tennant£75.00

Philip Hoare's definitive biography of Stephen Tennant.

Cecil Beaton. The Art of the Scrapbook£200.00

A compendium of pages from Cecil Beaton's scrapbooks

Leon Bakst and the Ballets Russes£80.00

Charles Spencer's important illustrated biography of Bakst.

View from a Long Chair. The Memoirs of Jack Pritchard [INSCRIBED]£125.00

An inscribed copy of the memoirs of the British Modernist designer Jack Pritchard.

Brian Howard. Portrait of a Failure£120.00

'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' - a biography of Brian Howard.

John Richardson : At Home£30.00

An autobiography of the art-historian John Richardson told through his homes and residences.

Ashcombe. The Story of a Fifteen-Year Lease£130.00

A first edition of Beaton's record of his famous Wiltshire country house.

Paris Between The Wars£50.00

A study of the artistic life of the French capital during the Roaring Twenties and the Depression Thirties.