Cecil Beaton — It Gives Me Great Pleasure

London, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1955. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of Cecil Beaton's collection of anecdotes and stories from his travels around the United States. The first edition of this anecdotal travel journal, written by Cecil Beaton during his lecture tour of America.Bound in the original publisher's cloth with a clipped, pictorial dust wrapper, designed by Beaton. Illustrated with a photographic frontispiece of the author with Mrs Charles B. Emery and additional vignette in-text, head and tail piece illustrations throughout. A humorous and engaging selection of writings on 'the real America' compiled by British photographer Cecil Beaton. Bound in the original publisher's cloth with a clipped, pictorial dust wrapper. Externally, excellent. With minor handling marks and only slight bumping to cloth at extremities. Offsetting to free end papers. Ink inscription to paste down and one to front free, dated 1955. Discreet bookseller stamp to pastedown. Clipped dust wrapper, generally smart. Slight sunning to spine. Minor loss to head and tail of spine and extremities from shelf wear. Crease and tear to upper corner of front wrap. Closed tear to upper rear wrap. Age toning to rear wrap and offsetting to reverse. Internally, firmly bound with occasional, very slight straining to hinge. Pages bright and clean with minor age toning. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed/Very Good.