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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.