"It Gives Me Great Pleasure" 1955 BEATON, Cecil (INSCRIBED) David Hicks Herbert Jenkins LimitedFourth Printing6 1/2"

Herbert Jenkins LimitedFourth Printing6 1/2" x 3 7/8"*spotting to cover boards and spillage to some pages*

including hints of grass courts

as well as illustrations to help readers understand the mechanics of each trick

This handsome 'deluxe' presentation copy being of full-morocco green leather-bound with hand-tooled gilt floral applique adornment & moire silk ffep- together with the ink signature of 'Anthony Drexel Duke'

One Who Was Born In It

"It Gives Me Great Pleasure" 1955 BEATON, Cecil (INSCRIBED) David Hicks Herbert Jenkins LimitedFourth Printing6 1/2"BEATON, Cecil [214] pp. Weidenfeld & Nicholson 1955 8 3 4" x 5 7 8" NF VG Scroll Down for (11) Additional Scans: In the winter of 1952 3 and for six weeks in 1954 Beaton completed two lecture tours of America, combating his nerves and delivering his speech to a string of Ladies Clubs across the continent. It Gives Me Great Pleasure is an account of his adventures on these tours. The book is as much about discovering the people and places of America as