My Royal Past

First edition. 146pp. With cut signature of Cecil Beaton to copyright page. Publisher’s orange cloth with black lettering to spine. Red top-stain. Boards somewhat rubbed and stained. Name and date (January 1940) written to ffe. Lacking dust jacket. *** With copy of a letter explaining the possible provenance of the signature; it was apparently cut from a letter sent by Beaton to the owner of the book, Anthony Goldschmidt. “I have a hand written letter from him dated early 1939 telling me that he had in the pipe-line a spoof book of reminiscences entitled My Royal Past by an imaginary middle-Eastern Baroness’. With Goldschmidt’s name written to ffe.