Air of Glory. A Wartime Scrapbook

First Edition. Quarto. pp. [88]. Publisher's red cloth boards titled in black to front, top edge red, pale pink glassine endpapers front and back. With the well chipped dust-jacket, most of spine missing also three inch section of along top edge of front panel. Profusely illustrated with photographs by Beaton, all but the first eight pages being photographs of the war effort from the early years of World War II. Owner inscription, dated 1942, to endpaper. A VG+ copy. Collection of wartime photographs, mainly from London, through which Beaton tries to capture the "flower of England's face" during the early years of the conflict. Thus we see the armed forces mobilising but also dozens of interesting shots of life on the homefront, with children's lessons in the village hall, potato growing in Kew Gardens, kids collecting firewood, sawing timber, and many other needful scenes of preparation.