EDEN, Anthony (1897-1977). Places in the Sun, London, 1926, 8vo, plates, cloth. PRESENTATION COPY inscribed "Beatrice, from Anthony. Looking back: and looking forward to yet other 'Places in the Sun' to be [?]basked in together. July 17th, 1926."

EDEN, Anthony, 1st Earl of Avon (1897-1977).  Places in the Sun ... With a Preface by The Right Hon. Stanley Baldwin, M.P. London: John Murray, 1926. 8vo (188 x 130mm). Half title, half tone frontispiece and 7 plates (half title very lightly browned, title lightly creased, a few spots and stains). Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt (spine faded, without the dust-jacket). Provenance: Anthony Eden (modern armorial bookplate loosely-inserted). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed, "Beatrice, from Anthony. Looking back: and looking forward to yet other 'Places in the Sun' to be [?]basked in together. July 17th, 1926." The recipient of this copy was Beatrice Beckett (1905-57), Eden's first wife. Together they had two sons, the first of whom, Simon Gascoigne Eden, became a navigator in the R.A.F. and was killed in action in Burma in 1945, a loss which contributed to the break-up of their marriage in 1950.