"Portrait Of New York" 1948 BEATON, Cecil Racquets Charles Skiddy von Stade and

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"Portrait Of New York" 1948 BEATON, Cecil Racquets Charles Skiddy von Stade andBEATON, Cecil [136] pp. B. T. Batsford Ltd. 1948 9" x 6 1 4" This is the Revised Edition of Cecil Beatons New York, first published in 1938. Both editions have different but equally marvelous dust jacket illustrations by Beaton of the Manhattan skyline. The book is a journalistic evaluation of New York through text, b & w photographs, and also pen & ink line drawings. Beaton frequently relates New York to his home city, London, contrasting the