Cecil Beaton [Larry Mcmurtry] Inscribed Photobiography Art,Larry Mcmurtry Collection,Photography

Cecil Beaton.Photobiography. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1951. First edition. Pencil Inscribed by Cecil Beaton to front free endpaper:With all good/wishes & many thanks/Cecil Beaton. Small quarto. 255p. Illustrated with b/w photos by the author. Publisher's beige and black cloth, stamped in gilt to spine and front cover, original pictorial dust jacket. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. . Spine slightly sunned and leaning; extremities gently rubbed and edgeworn; ownership erasure to inscription page; offsetting from (still present) news clipping to title page; minor toning; jacket sunned and torn in two, repaired with clear tape to verso. An about very good copy in a fair jacket. LMM-00303A