Near East

First edition. 150pp. Publisher’s brick-red cloth with gilt to spine and upper board. Red top-stain. In dust jacket. Cloth a little rubbed; light foxing throughout, more prominent to edges of text block. Jacket chipped to corner tips and spine ends; marginal loss to head of spine. *** Beaton’s account of his war-time experiences in Egypt and the Middle East where he spent three months gathering information and taking photographs for the Ministry of Information. Includes several pages of b/w photographs.