A personal memoir of the ballet in Cecil Beaton's photographs, drawings and highly individual prose, his reactions to dancing since the days when, as a boy during the first war, he admired the precision drill of the original 'Palace Girls'. 1st Edition, hardback with colorful dust jacket. 1951, 86 pages, publisher Wingate, London. Many photo plates and text illustrations. Excellent condition. A couple of tiny frays to edge dust jacket. Beautiful unmarked copy protected in a Mylar jacket.
