"Portrait Of New York" 1948 BEATON, Cecil Ambrose Heath

"Portrait Of New York" 1948 BEATON, Cecil Ambrose HeathBEATON, 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

Jacket design by John Minton

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the owner of Annabel's Club

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The essay leads on to over 200 pages of what de la Mare himself calls 'a rambling commentary'

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Tom reads in a newspaper that a ship named the Boldero sank off the coast of Uruguay during a storm

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He is best known for the Hare–Hawes–Cutting Act