My Bolivian Aunt by Cecil BEATON (Signed)
BEATON, Cecil. My Bolivian Aunt: A Memoir. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971.
First edition, third impression. Issued one month after the first and second printings. Signed to front endpaper ‘With Best Wishes, Cecil Beaton’.
Cecil Beaton’s wonderfully evocative recollections of his beloved aunt Jessie, a true romantic heroine and adventuress, who married a ‘a rich, moustachioed Bolivian’, and pursued a life of drama in South America. Jessie was an early and enduring influence on Beaton. He dedicated a chapter to her in A Glass of Fashion, and her style inspired several of his Edwardian costume and set designs, including those for My Fair Lady."
170 pp; b/w photos. 8vo, original cloth, some fading to top of the front board. A postcard with a Christmas gift message pasted to the front endpaper. Very good in good dust jacket (not price-clipped; light wear and ruffling to top of front panel; faint old stain to lower edge of the rear panel).