Cecil Beaton
New York
London, B.T. Batsford: 1938 (first edition) 8vo, 260 pp.
Blue-green levant morocco binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe
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Cecil Beaton's New York
Fine Leather-Bound Book
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Cecil Beaton's whimsical observations and anecdotes about New York City in the 1930s, illustrated with black-and-white line sketches by Beaton, and photographs by Beaton and others. This is a specially bound presentation copy in a full blue-green crushed Levant morocco binding, with raised spines, decorated with a series of vertical gilt lines with horizontal series of small gilt rectangles interspersed, designed by George Sutcliffe and bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London. All edges are gilt, and the endpapers and slipcase (enclosing text block only) are in paper printed with geometrical pattern in four colors.