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Beaton, Cecil; Vickers, Hugo (Introduction by)
Beaton in the Sixties: More Unexpurgated Diaries
London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2003 0297645560 / 9780297645566 First Edition, First Printing Hard Cover Fine Fine Collectible
Cloth, xii, 434 pp., [24] pp. of plates, illus., bib. notes, index; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "The 1960s contains some of the very best set pieces, including Churchill's funeral. He has just completed making the film, My Fair Lady, which included rows with the director George Cukor, Rex Harrison's fondness for watching live sex, Cukor on Audrey Hepburn's figure etc. (Cecil was also the master at slicing up Hollywood social life at that period. He loathed it). His partner Kin, who has spent a year with him in England, returns to the USA, leaving Cecil to loneliness - but not for long. He is soon travelling aboard Cecile de Rothschild's yacht with Garbo - his former lover - as a fellow traveller. He visits Picasso at his home, the Rolling Stones in Marrakech; Andy Warhol in New York. Here is the young David Hockney, Peter Sellers being beastly, Paul Getty being mean. Cecil is fascinated by this new generation testing the boundaries as he and his friends had done in the 1920s. Friendships remain important - the Avons, Lady Juliet Duff, Lady Diana Cooper, Mrs Heinz. He also sees off all younger competition as photographer royal and as in the previous volume there are some very funny and often very pointed entries about the Queen, the Queen Mother, Princess Marina, Princess Margaret etc. Roy Strong, the extrovert young director, puts on a massive retrospective of Beaton's work at the National Portrait Gallery. Then, in 1969, Cecil endures a miserable phase (described in detail) working on Coco with Katharine Hepburn, bringing us to the point where The Unexpurgated Beaton took the story into the new decade. The diaries are as lively, if not livelier, than the ones for the 1970s. / As well as writing books, Hugo Vickers is a lecturer on all things royal. He is vice-chairman of the Jubilee Walkway Trust. He is married, lives in Hampshire and has three children." - Publisher.
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Beaton, Cecil; Vickers, Hugo (Introduction by)
Beaton in the Sixties: More Unexpurgated Diaries
New York Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book 2004 1400042976 / 9781400042975 First U.S. Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine Collectible
x, 522 pp., illus., bib. notes, index; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated "First American Edition." Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "Hugo Vickers, the author of Beaton's acclaimed biography, went back to the original manuscripts to find the unedited material in order to sidestep Beaton's endless retouching and has added, as with the first volume of unexpurgated Beaton, fascinating notes that are as lively as the diary entries themselves. Here is Beaton around the world, always in the hot spots of the moment: during the 'swinging sixties' in London, photographing the Queen, doing fashion shoots for British Vogue, and having lunch with Noël Coward and dinner with Cyril Connolly. He is in Morocco with the Rolling Stones; in the Greek islands for a cruise on Cécile de Rothschild's yacht with his former lover, Garbo; in New York attending Truman Capote's Black-and-White Ball; at work on Alan Jay Lerner and André Previn's musical Coco with Katharine Hepburn and on La Traviata with Anna Moffo at the Met--he is even caught in the first big New York City blackout; he is at a dinner for President Lyndon Johnson and invited for tea and caviar with Jacqueline Onassis. He's in Mougins to photograph Picasso, and then off to Monaco to see Princess Grace, among many other adventures. The eccentric English aesthete Stephen Tennant called Beaton 'a self-created genius.' Though he came out of the Edwardian era, Beaton was a modern polymath with a ferocious drive to be famous, and these diaries reflect his success at working with the most celebrated and creative figures. Reverential, testy, ebullient and acutely observed, they present us with the fascinating minutiae not only of one life but of the best part of a dazzling decade. / Hugo Vickers compiled The Unexpurgated Beaton and is the author of Gladys, Duchess of Marlborough; Cecil Beaton; Vivien Leigh; Loving Garbo; and Alice, Princess Andrew of Greece, among other books. He lives in London and Hampshire with his wife and three children." - Publisher.
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Vickers, Hugo
Cecil Beaton: A Biography
Boston and Toronto Little, Brown and Company 1985 0316902446 / 9780316902441 First U.S. Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good
xxix, 656 pp., [32] pp. of plates, illus., ports., bib. notes, index; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Edges lightly soiled. Stated "First American Edition." Dust jacket, with light edgewear/nicked on back cover, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement.
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Beaton, Cecil; Vickers, Hugo (Introduction by)
The Unexpurgated Beaton: The Cecil Beaton Diaries As He Wrote Them, 1970-1980
New York Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book 2003 1400041120 / 9781400041121 Hard Cover Fine Fine
xi, 508 pp., illus., index; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. "Cecil Beaton was one of the great twentieth-century tastemakers. A photographer, artist, writer and designer for more than fifty years, he was at the center of the worlds of fashion, society, theater and film. The Unexpurgated Beaton brings together for the first time the never-before-published diaries from 1970 to 1980 and, unlike the six slim volumes of diaries published during his lifetime, these have been left uniquely unedited. Hugo Vickers, the executor of Beaton's estate and the author of his acclaimed biography, has added extensive and fascinating notes that are as lively as the diary entries themselves. As one London reviewer wrote, 'Vickers' waspish footnotes are the salt on the side of the dish.' Beaton treated his other published diaries like his photographs, endlessly retouching them, but, for this volume, Vickers went back to the original manuscripts to find the unedited diaries. Here is the photographer for British and American Vogue, designer of the sets and costumes for the play and film My Fair Lady and the film Gigi, with a cast of characters from many worlds: Bianca Jagger, Greta Garbo, David Hockney, Truman Capote, the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret, Mae West, Elizabeth Taylor, Marlene Dietrich, Rose Kennedy and assorted Rothschilds, Phippses and Wrightsmans; in New York, San Francisco, Palm Beach, Rio and Greece, on the Amalfi coast; at shooting parties in the English countryside, on yachts, at garden parties at Buckingham Palace, at costume balls in Venice, Paris or London. Beaton had started as an outsider and 'developed the power to observe, first with his nose pressed up against the glass,' and then later from within inner circles. Vickers has said, 'his eagle eye missed nothing,' and his diaries are intuitive, malicious (he took a 'relish in hating certain figures'), praising and awestruck. Truman Capote once said 'the camera will never be invented that could capture or encompass all that he actually sees.' The Unexpurgated Beaton is a book that is not only a great read and wicked fun but a timeless chronicle of our age. / Hugo Vickers is the author of Gladys, Duchess of Marlborough; Cecil Beaton; Vivien Leigh; Loving Garbo; and Alice, Princess Andrew of Greece, among other books. He lives in London and Hampshire with his wife and his three children." - Publisher.
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