My Bolivian Aunt. A memoir (signed copy)

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1971.

Presentation copy to French actress Alice Delysia from Beaton. "To Alice Delysia from her admirer Cecil Beaton". Nice inscription on the first free endpaper. Fifth impression of the first edition. Publisher's dark pink cloth with the excellent unclipped dust-jacket, creases to front flap. 16 pages of photographs. A VG+ copy. Alice Henriette Lapize (1889–1979), better known by her stage name, Alice Delysia was a French actress and singer who made her career in English musical theatre. After performing in the chorus at the Moulin Rouge and other theatres in Paris from the age of 14, she became a chorus girl in Edwardian musical comedies, briefly on Broadway in 1905, then in London for several years and back in Paris in 1912.