Beaton, Cecil. The Best of Beaton. Photographs by Cecil Beaton with introduction by Truman Capote.

Macmillan, 1968. 1st American edition, ex-library, card pocket, large heavy hard cover, bound in black cloth, hinges split and reglued, one inner hinge reinforced with tape, otherwise very good with protected dust jacket that has spots of wear at extremities and spine label.  248 pages. Comprehensive survey of Beaton’s long career, including cinema stars, fashion, World War II, travel, creative people in the arts, politicians, friends and family, etc. People in the photos include Beaton, Marlene Dietrich, Mel Ferrer, Twiggy, Truman Capote, Lucien Freud, Martha Graham, Henry Moore, Barbra Streisand, Sugar Ray Robinson, Rex Harrison, Maria Callas, Marilyn Monroe, Hermione Gingold, Audrey Hepburn, Georges Balanchine, Rudolph Nureyev, Charles Addams, Ingrid Bergman, Margot Fonteyn, Edith Sitwell, Coco Chanel, Augustus John, Colette, W.H. Auden, Pablo Picasso, Greta Garbo, Winston Churchill, General Charles de Gaulle, John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier, Gertrude Lawrence, Katherine Hepburn, Orson Welles, Fred Astaire, Beatrice Lillie, Jackie Cooper, Gertrude Stein, Salvador Dali, Max Beerbohm, E.M. Forster, Marion Moorhouse, Lee Miller, Marian Davies, Dolores Del Rio, Johnnie Weismuller, Anita Loos, Tallulah Bankhead, Anna May Wong, et al.  Note: photos of covers have reflections.