BEAUMONT, Cyril W[illiam].
Toys. Rhymes by ..... Decorations by EILEEN MAYO.
Description:
pp. 48, (i) Colophon, (i) Advertisement. Frontispiece and 7 plates, all partially coloured, title vignette in colour, headpieces. Original blue cloth with gilt device on front cover, uncut, inscription from Beaumont to his nephew Ian, 1930, a very good copy TOGETHER WITH 15 titles by Beaumont, mostly inscribed to family, plus ephemera, plus MASEFIELD & SEAGO, as listed below :
BEAUMONT, Cyril W. The Strange Adventures of a Toy Soldier. A Fairy Tale. With Decorations by WYNDHAM PAYNE. Beaumont. London. 1926. Dust wrapper, no inscription. BEAUMONT, Cyril W. The Wonderful Journey. A Fairy Tale. With Illustrations by WYNDHAM PAYNE. Beaumont. London. 1927. Torn dust wrapper. No inscription. BEAUMONT, Cyril W. Sea Magic. A Story of Adventure. Illustrated by WYNDHAM PAYNE. John Lane, The Bodley Head. London. 1928. Cloth-backed boards, glassine wrapper, not inscribed. BEAUMONT, Cyril W. Flash=Back - Stories of my Youth. With a Preface by SACHEVERELL SITWELL. Beaumont. London. 1931. Inscribed by author to Bryan [younger brother] and Marie [sister-in-law]. Dust wrapper. PLUS another copy in torn dw inscribed to his mother by CWB. BEAUMONT, Cyril W. Anna Pavlova. Beaumont. London. 1932. Inscribed to Marie, 1932. Dust wrapper. PLUS another copy without dw. BEAUMONT, Cyril W. Design for the Ballet. The Studio. London. 1937. 135 plates of which 7 are on stiff paper with tipped in colour plates [2 plates with slight surface damage in the gutter from adhesion]. No dust wrapper, inscribed by CBW to Bryan [younger brother], 1937. BEAUMONT, Cyril W. Puppets and the Puppet Stage. The Studio. London. 1938. Dust wrapper, inscribed to Bryan. With 111 plates on glossy, art paper in white, yellow and pink, 12 plates with spots of adherence and occasionally some slight paper loss. BEAUMONT, Cyril W. Five Centuries of Ballet Design. The Studio. London. [1939]. Dust wrapper, inscribed by Cyril and Alice to Bryan and Marie, 1939. BEAUMONT, Cyril W. A Short History of Ballet. Beaumont. London. 1944. New edition. No inscription. BEAUMONT, Cyril W. The Ballet Called Giselle. Beaumont. London. 1944. Inscribed to Marie. BEAUMONT, Cyril W. Complete Book of Ballets. A Guide to the Principal Ballets of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Putnam. London. 1951. Reprint with Additions. Inscribed to Ian by Alice [wife] and Cyril. WITH a Prospectus for same. TOGETHER WITH : BEAUMONT, Cyril. Ballets of Today. Being a Second Supplement to the Complete Book of Ballets. Putnam. London. 1954. Dust wrapper. Inscribed to Ian by Alice and Cyril. TOGETHER WITH : Ballets Past & Present. Being a Third Supplement to the Complete Book of Ballets. Putnam. London. 1955. Dust wrapper, inscribed to Ian from Alice and Cyril. MASEFIELD, John and SEAGO, Edward. Tribute to Ballet in Poems. Collins. London. 1938. Coloured frontispiece of MICHEL FOKINE and 8 coloured plates. Dust wrapper and inscription from Alice and Cyril, to Marie and Bryan, 1940. CHRISTMAS CARDS x3, all signed by CYRIL & ALICE.
C. W. Beaumont. London.
Date Published: 1930.
Stock No. 63758
Price: £900.00