Cecil Beaton:Memoirs of the 40's: Memoirs of the 40's (SIGNED).
Beaton, Cecil Walter Hardy.
Place Published: Hightstown, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Co,
Date Published: 1972.
Description: FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE FRONT FREE END PAGE. 310 pages with index. 29 pages black & white photos. The book and dust jacket are FINE. Comes with BRODART jacket cover. JMVintage specializes in books, magazines, and treasures related to the Duke & Duchess of Windsor..and other curious subjects like CECIL BEATON. Dust jacket notes read: "These memoirs of the immediate postwar years present a vibrant double portrait-one of the exquisite Garbo, a chiaroscuro interplay of light and shadow; the other, a brilliantly lighted view of the world of celebrated artists, writers, politicians, clever hangers-on and the true shakers and makers. Early in the book Beaton focuses on the fabled people among whom he lived in worked: Cocteau, Picasso, Churchill, Gertrude Stein, Andre Gide, deGaulle, Laurence Olivier, and many others. His observations are acute, spirited, warm and often surprising. But the special excitement of the volume is one of the most extraordinary narrative portraits ever written of the elusive, mysterious Greta Garbo, who shared with Beaton a unique and intense rerlationship. From the encounters between the two as recorded in his memoirs, Garbo emerges as she has never been seen before, at her most playful and most serious moments. Here is Garbo romping in Central park, Christmas-shopping for bargains at Macy's, working in her kitchen, enjoying her garden, unself-conscious about her beauty, guarding her privacy through various pseudonyms, talking about herselfÖWith gracious delicacy, Beaton both reveals Garbo and leaves intact her incandescent, indefinable aura. Written with an artist's unfailing eye for the unguarded gesture, this volume is an affecting distillation of the author's hectic and halcyon days of the 1940's-the days of renewed energy and purpose among the gifted people who brought the postwar world back to life. No volume of Cecil Beaton's would be complete without a sampling of the photographs, drawings, sketches for which the author first came to public attention. Pictured here are Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, Andre Gide, Gertrude Stein, Adele Astaire, Lady Daina Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Anita Loos, Jean Cocteau, Noel Coward-to mention only a few. And, of course, Garbo herself."
Edition: First editionBinding: Hard Back
Condition: Fine in Fine dj
Book Id: 7050
Price: $125.00
