BEATON, Cecil. India. Mumbai: Thacker & Co. [1945].
4to. Original cloth with dust-wrappers; pp. [vi], 100 photographic plates on 50 leaves; one corner of lower panel of wrapper with slight damage, wrapper a little marked, half-title a little spotted, with gift inscription and contemporary Allahabad bookseller's rubber stamp, otherwise very good and far better preserved than usually encountered.
First edition of one of Cecil Beaton's rarer photobooks, commissioned by the Ministry of Information and printed on very heavy, glossy paper.
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