Title: The Wandering Years: Diaries 1922-1939; The Years Between: Diaries 1939-44; The Happy Years: Diaries 1944-48; The Strenuous Years: Diaries 1948-55; The Restless Years: Diaries 1955-63; The Parting Years: Diaries 1963-74
Author: All Cecil Beaton
Published: 1961; 1965; 1972; 1973; 1976; 1978
Publisher: All Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London
All first edition/first impression; all UK; all hardback with dust wrapper (none are price-clipped, showing 30s net, 36s net, £2.25 net, £3.50 net, £4.95 net, £5.95 net respectively); all covered in clear, removable protective wrapper

All Very Good+ to Very Good / Very Good + to Very Good - : all books, boards, spines and internal pages clean and unmarked without stickers or inscriptions, a little bumping to some spine ends, some age-toning & foxing & light staining to exteriors of text blocks; some dust wrappers have a bit of shelfwear and general wear, with chipping and a bit of paper loss to first 3 volumes, dust wrapper spine faded to The Restless Years, see photos for closer inspection

Complete set of all six volumes of Cecil Beaton’s Diaries, which were published between 1961 and 1978, and which cover the years 1922 through to 1974.

All are true UK first hardback editions & first impressions. All published by Weidenfeld & Nicholson. All with original first state dust wrappers.

Each volume illustrated copiously with photographs.

Difficult to find a complete set of true first printings…….

Cecil Beaton was an English fashion, portrait and war photographer, diarist, painter, interior designer and an Academy Award–winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre. He is probably best known for his fashion photographs and society portraits, working as a staff photographer for Vanity Fair and Vogue, as well as photographing celebrities in Hollywood and providing official portraits of the British Royal Family. His published books included Time Exposure, Portrait of New York, Persona Grata, The Glass of Fashion and The Face of the World, along with six volumes of diaries, spanning the years 1922–1974.

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