"Ashcombe The Story Of A Fifteen-Year Lease" 1949 BEATON, Cecil Interior Decoration Chicago Formerly of The Pendennis

Chicago Formerly of The Pendennis Club

In publisher's cardboard mailing envelope

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Chapter on Hawaii's colorful history

"Ashcombe The Story Of A Fifteen-Year Lease" 1949 BEATON, Cecil Interior Decoration Chicago Formerly of The PendennisBEATON, Cecil [124] pp. B. T. Batsford Ltd. 1949 8 3 4" x 5 7 8" The jacket is reproduced from a painting of Ashcombe by Rex Whistler "Ashcombe" is the name of the country house in the Wiltshire Downs whose lease Cecil Beaton held for the fifteen years from 1930. In this book Mr. Beaton has wonderfully succeeded in recreating the atmosphere of those days. A first edition copy of Cecil Beaton's record of his famous country house, with the original dust