"My Royal Past" BEATON, Cecil
$250
VON BULOP, Baroness
[105] pp.
The John Day Company
1960
Revised Edition
8 5/8" x 5 3/4"
Cecil Beaton's entertaining novel about an aristocratic woman, the Baroness von Bulop, an amusing work with Beaton's illustrations. In the original unclipped dustwrapper.Cecil Beaton's entertaining faux-memoir on the Baroness von Bulop, a fictional aristocratic woman whose reminiscences form this novel.Illustrated with a frontispiece, twenty-two plates, and in-text illustrations.Beaton is a renowned fashion, portrait, and war photographer, well known and loved for his stage and costume design for films and theatre. He won Academy Awards for his costume design for the films 'Gigi' and 'My Fair Lady'.