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Cecil Beaton, I Take Great Pleasure

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Beaton, Cecil. It Gives Me Great Pleasure. First American Edition. 1956. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition—jacket shows minor tears and fraying to the spine ends and a minor tear to the upper front cover. 

If Hollywood ever decides to make a movie about Cecil Beaton, a smart but obscure subject matter would be his account of the six months he traveled through America on the lecture circuit. The topic of the tour was his career, and at age fifty, Beaton seemed eager to put it in perspective, at times worrying his wide-ranging talents made him a dilettante. [History has judged him more kindly than he imagined.] Well-meaning parvenus he meets along the way make amusing fodder, but he has genuine admiration for those he encounters, and his manner is more kindhearted than one might expect.

“Americans are not materialistic in the money sense: they are too generous and wasteful, too idealistic for that.”
 
--Cecil Beaton

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