publications
1930s
The Book of Beauty (Duckworth, 1930)
Cecil Beaton's Scrapbook (Batsford, 1937)
Cecil Beaton's New York (Batsford, 1938)
My Royal Past (Batsford, 1939)
1940s
History Under Fire with James Pope-Hennessy (Batsford, 1941)
Time Exposure with Peter Quennell (Batsford, 1941)
Air of Glory (HMSO, 1941)
Winged Squadrons (Hutchinson, 1942)
Near East (Batsford, 1943)
British Photographers (William Collins, 1944)
Far East (Batsford, 1945)
Cecil Beaton's Indian Album (Batsford, 1945–6, republished as Indian Diary and Album, OUP, 1991)
Cecil Beaton's Chinese Album (Batsford, 1945-6)
India (Thacker & Co., 1945)
Portrait of New York (Batsford, 1948)
Ashcombe: The Story of a Fifteen-Year Lease (Batsford, 1949)
1950s
Photobiography (Odhams, 1951)
Ballet (Allan Wingate, 1951)
Persona Grata with Kenneth Tynan (Allan Wingate, 1953)
The Glass of Fashion (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1954)
It Gives Me Great Pleasure (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1956)
The Face of the World: An International Scrapbook of People and Places (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1957)
Japanese (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1959)
1960s
Quail in Aspic: The Life Story of Count Charles Korsetz (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1962)
Images with a preface by Edith Sitwell and an introduction by Christopher Isherwood (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1963)
Royal Portraits with an introduction by Peter Quennell (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1963)
Cecil Beaton's 'Fair Lady' (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1964)
The Best of Beaton with an introduction by Truman Capote (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1968)
1970s
My Bolivian Aunt: A Memoir (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1971)