Compiler john hadfield (16 résultats)

hardcover. Etat : Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. No dust jacket. Mild tan to text block edge and some small marks to covers otherwise fine.…

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. xii, 13-256pp, numerous colour and black and white plates. Quarter bound in white cloth over green paper-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Spine discoloured, lightly rubbed spine ends. Dusty top text block edge, edges foxing. Illustrative endpapers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has minor loss on spine, light shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, price clipped.…

Original Cloth-backed Boards. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Good. First Edition in America. Unclipped dust jacket with a few short edge tears.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Hardcover in very good condition. Clipped dust jacket in good condition. Jacket is scuffed and sunned, with some surface colour loss noted. Edges are creased and nicked, including small tears. Board edges, corners and spine ends are slightly bumped and rubbed. Bookplate on half-title page. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.…

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. Hulton Press, 1953, reprint. Hardback, d/j, 8vo, 256pp, illust. Prize bookplate, endpapers a little tanned, d/j, slightly bumped and rubbed. A fair copy. /0.8uk.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. Hulton Press, 1955, reprint. Hardback, d/j, 8vo, 256pp, illust. Prize bookplate, endpapers a little tanned, d/j, slightly bumped and rubbed. A fair copy. /0.7uk.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Hulton Press, 1957, reprint. Hardback, d/j, 8vo, 255pp, illust. Endpapers a little tanned, d/j slightly shelfworn and torn. A good copy. /0.7uk.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Revised Edition. 1976 first edition of the Revised Edition. Signed by Hadfield on the copyright page. Size octavo, 224 pages including index. Red paper-covered boards decorated with gilt and white repeat pattern, white cloth spine section with gilt titles, bird and foliage pattern end-papers. Frontispiece Price-clipped dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Includes dust jacket.

First Edition. Good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 255 pages ; illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm. Notes; Includes music for voice and keyboard instrument. Includes index. Subjects; English literature. Art. Music. Aesthetics ; Literary collections. Beauty, Personal ; Literary collections. Genres; Anthologies - England - 1952. Illustrated. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 255 pages ; illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm. Notes; Includes music for voice and keyboard instrument. Includes index. Subjects; English literature. Art. Music. Aesthetics ; Literary collections. Beauty, Personal ; Literary collections. Genres; Anthologies - England - 1952. Illustrated. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good+. 1st Edition. 1953 first edition, second printing in very good+, tight, clean condition, with no inscriptions. 256 pages illustrated. Pictorial end papers. Attractive binding of red and gilt decorated boards and white cloth spine. Well illustrated. Contributors range from William Morris and D. H. Lawrence to Francis Bacon and John Clare. See photos of this copy attached. (BM36).…

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. 4to., 320pp. Sharp First Edition of this anthology of dozens of stories from the likes of Dickens, Poe, Bradbury, Bierce and many more, including Shalespeare. Bound in purple cloth with titles in black and gilt on spine. Illustrated. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear or toning. Very attractive unclipped wrapper, (36s. net), has some tiny nicks and rubbing to edges, folds and tips. Still fresh and bright with no creases or tears. A handosme collectable copy at a great price. …

Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 8vo., 1956. with presentation inscription from compiler to Griselda Lewis the designer of this book. Some light and very sporadic foxing otherwise very good in original quarter white cloth gilt and decorative paper covered boards. Slight browning/rubbing to extremities otherwise very good. In unclipped dustwrapper, lightly shelf-worn with light browning to spine and some light foxing to inside of wrapper, small tear top spine, good. please see photos. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Presentation Inscription from Complier.…

Etat : Good. slight shelfwear to cover, which has rips to the spine otherwise content fine.

Hardcover. 8vo. pp. 255, [i]. Coloured frontispiece. 62 full-page illustrations in the text, half are coloured. Musical examples in the text. Original publisher's white cloth-backed patterned boards lettered gilt on spine. Patterned endpapers from a design by William Morris. Presentation copy: 'For John Lewis, who justified the title, with the Editor's thanks & regards John Hadfield 29.xi.52.' Bookplate of John Lewis on front pastedown endpaper. Loosely inserted Order of Service for the funeral of Joy Hadfield (1928 - 2002), John Hadfield's second wife. Hadfield says in his introduction that in Part I he has 'sought to illustrate the course of human life, from birth to death, by passages of poetry and prose'. In Part II he has 'tried to give some indications of the beauty which can be found outside ourselves'. John Lewis (1912 1996), typographer, book designer, author and illustrator, designed the book with John Hadfield (1907 1999), editor for twenty-five years of the Saturday Book and for two decades a director of the publisher, George Rainbird. A very good copy. Very good.…