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I Take Great Pleasure
£120.00

Cecil Beaton's amusing account of his lecture tour across North America.

It Gives Me Great Pleasure
£140.00

Cecil Beaton's amusing account of his lecture tour across North America.

Madame De Pompadour
£80.00

Nancy Mitford's biography, with a dust jacket design by Cecil Beaton.

My Royal Past By Baronness von Bulop as told to Cecil Beaton
£280.00

A first edition of Beaton's spoof memoirs of Baroness Von Bülop.

Photobiography
£100.00

A precursor to Beaton's published diaries.

The Blue Fox
£100.00

Ronald Duncan's tales from the farm, with a dust jacket by Cecil Beaton.

White Heat
£130.00

One of the most influential cook books of a generation.

Emerald and Nancy. Lady Cunard and her daughter
£45.00

Daphne Fielding's double biography of Emerald and Nancy Cunard.

Shocking Life
£140.00

A first edition of Schiaparelli's autobiography with the shocking pink dust jacket.

Brian Howard. Portrait of a Failure
£100.00

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

Cecil Beaton. The Authorised Biography
£35.00

The official biography of Beaton by Hugo Vickers.

The Rainbow Comes and Goes; The Light of Common Day; Trumpets from the Steep [Complete Set]
£150.00

A complete three-volume set of the memoirs of Lady Diana Cooper.

Pierre Balmain. My Years and Seasons
£90.00

The fashion designer's autobiography.

Leon Bakst and the Ballets Russes
£120.00

Charles Spencer's important illustrated biography of Bakst.

Oliver Messel. A Biography
£85.00

An illustrated biography of Messel's life, work, theatre designs and interiors.

A Background for Domenico Scarlatti 1685-1757 written for his two hundred and fiftieth anniversary [Association Copy]
£75.00

An association copy of Sitwell's biography of the Italian composer.

Taken Care Of. An Autobiography [Uncorrected Proof Copy]
£60.00

A proof copy of Edith Sitwell's autobiography.

Eileen Agar. A Look at My Life
Eileen Agar. A Look at My Life
£95.00

The autobiography of English surrealist artist Eileen Agar.

The Ossie Clark Diaries
£70.00

The exuberant and uninhibited diaries of London's famous sixties fashion designer.

Merry Hall; Laughter on the Stairs; Sunlight on the Lawn [THE COMPLETE MERRY HALL TRILOGY]
£450.00

The trilogy of books recounting Beverley Nichols' restoration of the Georgian house, Merry Hall.

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