munwar: Roneo Vickers

Friday, 28 September 2012

Roneo Vickers

VICKERS ON TITLE PAGE. 508 pages with index. The book is FINE/NEW . The dust jacket is in FINE condition. NOT price-clipped or NOT remaindered. JMVintage specializes in books, magazines, and treasures related to the Duke & Duchess of Windsor...and other curious subjects like Cecil Beaton. Dust jacket notes read: "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