Biography & Memoir

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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
£85.00
£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
£60.00
£90.00

The fashion designer's autobiography.

Leon Bakst and the Ballets Russes
£80.00
£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]
£50.00
£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
£50.00
£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]
£350.00
£450.00

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

Bring on the Girls! The Improbable Story of Our Life in Musical Comedy, with Pictures to Prove It
£70.00
£100.00

Wodehouse and Bolton's irreverent account of their collaborative involvement in Broadway musicals.

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