"Near East" 1943 BEATON, Cecil Swizzle Sticks Morris is surrounded by a

Morris is surrounded by a pale glow of nocturnal health - a semi-physical attribute known in the East End as 'moontan'

of which this is No 5

a half-sister to three English stakes winners

Gertrude Lawrence

"Near East" 1943 BEATON, Cecil Swizzle Sticks Morris is surrounded by aBEATON, Cecil [150] pp. B. T. Batsford Ltd. 1943 9" x 6 1 8" First edition of the award winning photographers account of his months as a WWII photographer for the British Ministry of Information and Air Ministry, with over 45 pages of black and white photogravures featuring Beatons images of desert patrols, the wreckage of enemy planes and his portraits of figures such as the Queen of Persia and the seven year old King Faisal II of Iraq. Early in WWII