"Near East" 1943 BEATON, Cecil Swizzle Sticks Billingsley was known for his

Billingsley was known for his lavish gifts

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

decoration for Prince Aga Khan

Coward-McCann

Gertrude Lawrence

"Near East" 1943 BEATON, Cecil Swizzle Sticks Billingsley was known for hisBEATON, 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