@BeauxBooks

Rare Book Dealer specialising in the Art & Culture of 20th & 21st Centuries Online Shop. International Shipping. Buy Better Books

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For anyone who thinks that I make customer encounters up, here’s Nicki describing her exchange with today’s first customer.
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The ABA Chelsea Rare Book Fair ✨ Highlights ✨ Design for Death by Barbara Jones From @BeauxBooks (Stand 30) 29-30 April 2022 chelseabookfair.com 📖 #chelseabookfair #rarebooks #aba #bibliophiles #artbooks #chelsea #death #design #illustration #macabre #designhistory
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A powerful case for these being “the best of times for the rare book trade” made by Clare Trimming (from @beauxbooks) gave for a strong kick-off to @yabseminar #yabs21
Three legs in heels tied together over train-tracks, each with a different, very bright colour in their shoe and tights.

ALT Three legs in heels tied together over train-tracks, each with a different, very bright colour in their shoe and tights.

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Importance of physical book, & the magical combination of the internet x the physical space of a bookshop (plus temporary spaces like exhibitions, pop ups) Clare Trimming @BeauxBooks
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How the kindness economy will help your rare book trade business bottom line. People, planet, profit should be kept in that order. Clare Trimming @BeauxBooks
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Hitting the bookshelves this week. * 1. Mariano Fortuny. His Life and Work 2. Edward Bawden 3. Rex Whistler 1905-1944. A Memorial Exhibition 4. Bacon * All from the library of theatre designer David Collis. beauxbooks.com/ #fortuny #edwardbawden #rexwhistler #francisbacon
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Hitting the bookshelves this week... * It's been a busy week back in the office. Lots of books sold from yesterday's list but these are still available or have just come back into stock. #rarebooks #karllagerfeld #paulpoiret #johnpiper beauxbooks.com
Our short list CREATIVE LIVES is out now, featuring 20 biographies & memoirs of artists, writers and muses. beauxbooks.com/creative-live… * #rarebooks #brianhoward #marchesacasati #rexwhistler
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Who's Who? Can you recognise the famous faces appearing in 'Creative Lives'. Our new short list of 20 biographies & memoirs will be delivered to your inbox later today. Here's the link to join our mailing list if you're not on it. eepurl.com/dtpTGz #rarebooks #sneakpeak
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What do you think about owners' inscriptions in books? Are there some that add to the book's value and some that detract?
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At Beaux Books we believe that anything that tells the story of a particular copy and reveals it's historical provenance, passing from hand to hand, can only be a good thing. But we'd love to know what you think...
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1. Cecil Beaton to Juliet Duff 2. Auntie Connie's gift inscription in The Green Carnation 3. A droll and lengthy inscription in Beaton's Time Exposure 4. A school prize bookplate from Peterborough County Grammar School for Girls
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Going into the weekend with a smile. * 'The Honorable Mrs. J. J. Astor with Cecil Beaton'. Photographed by Richard Avedon at his New York Studio in October 1959. * Featured in RICHARD AVEDON PHOTOGRAPHS 1947-1977, Farrar, Straus & Giroux. New York. 1978. beauxbooks.com/avedon-photog…
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Hitting the bookshelves this week. * 1. The Jewels of the late Duchess of Windsor 2. Irving Penn Portraits 3. Avedon. The Sixties 4. Toni Frissell Photographs 1933-1967 * beauxbooks.com/new-arrivals.… #duchessofwindsor #irvingpenn #avedon #tonifrissell
Coming soon... * The Duke of Windsor, by Toni Frissell. Featured in TONI FRISSELL PHOTOGRAPHS: 1933-1967, Andre Deutsch, 1994. * Collector's List coming later today. Sign up here eepurl.com/dtpTGz #tonifrissell #dukeofwindsor
Coming soon... * Peter Watson, by Pavel Tchelitchew. Gouache on board, London, 1934, private collection. Featured in TCHELITCHEV, by Lincoln Kirstein, Twelvetree Press, 1994. * Collector's List coming later this week. Sign up eepurl.com/dtpTGz #paveltchelitchew #peterwatson
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English actress Edna Best exemplifying the best of 1920s fashion. Photographed by Hugh Cecil for his A BOOK OF BEAUTY, published in the mid-twenties. beauxbooks.com/a-book-of-bea… * #rarebooks #photobook #hughcecil #ednabest #brightyoungthings #brightyoungthursday
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An early monograph on the work of the painter William Scott. The artist worked alongside Alan Bowness to select the 149 paintings reproduced in the book, works created between 1938-1964. * WILLIAM SCOTT PAINTINGS, Alan Bowness, 1964. beauxbooks.com/william-scott… #artbook #williamscott
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'Mrs Somerset Maugham. White from tip to toe. All her flowers were white, all her furniture was pickled and she bitterly resented the absence of a white cocktail.' * Beverley Nichols in THE SWEET AND TWENTIES, 1958. Photograph by Cecil Beaton. * #BrightYoungThursday
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