[Cecil Beaton]
During the Second World War Cecil Beaton was sent to the Far East as a War Photographer for the Ministry of Information. Whilst there he took thousands of photographs, a selection of which are collected into his Chinese Album. Beaton took an eager interest in everyone he met and all levels of Chinese society are documented in the book, with images of poets, scholars, orphans, mothers, soldiers, government officials, firemen, policemen, noodle makers, salt miners, farmers, factory workers and villagers.
Cecil Beaton. B.T. Batsford Ltd. London. Winter, 1945-6. First edition. Hardback, octavo; yellow cloth-bound boards with blue titles, yellow top edge, dust jacket. Black-and-white frontispiece, [viii], 78 pages of black-and-white photographs. English. 230 x 175mm. 0.35kg. . Very good, in very good dust jacket; light shelf wear to dust jacket, slightly chipped at head and base of spine, light wear to forecorners, some browning to spine, not price-clipped; clean internally, no inscriptions.
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