It Gives Me Great Pleasure

by Cecil Beaton

$575 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

First edition · Signed

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1955. Biography INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo 23 x 15cm , pp. 8 ; 214; 2 blank. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Beaton with printed price of 16s net. Photographic frontispiece and occasional in-text illustrations. Inscribed by the author to the flyleaf: To dearest Enid | with love | and Christmas | Blessings 1955 | from | Cecil . Elegant bookplate of Barbara Rouse to pastedown.

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