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London: Hulton Press, 1954. beautiful full page illustrations in both black and white and colour; very good+ hardcover in very good dustjacket (several tears to edges of back cover) For their protection I cover all dustjackets with a new clear mylar protector; SATISFACTION GUARANTEED; ALL ORDERS SHIPPED WITH DELIVERY CONFIRMATION; . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Illus. by Illustrated. 7 x 10". Decorated Endpages.
A BOOK OF DELIGHTS - An Anthology of Words and Pictures by Hadfield, John (editor) (Beethoven; William Blake; James Boswell; Robert Browning; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; G. K. Chesterton; Joseph Conrad; Walter de la Mare; Thomas De Quincey; George Eliot; Aldous Huxley; Plato; Dylan Thomas; Virginia Woolf) - 1954
by Hadfield, John (editor) (Beethoven; William Blake; James Boswell; Robert Browning; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; G. K. Chesterton; Joseph Conrad; Walter de la Mare; Thomas De Quincey; George Eliot; Aldous Huxley; Plato; Dylan Thomas; Virginia Woolf)
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A BOOK OF DELIGHTS - An Anthology of Words and Pictures
by Hadfield, John (editor) (Beethoven; William Blake; James Boswell; Robert Browning; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; G. K. Chesterton; Joseph Conrad; Walter de la Mare; Thomas De Quincey; George Eliot; Aldous Huxley; Plato; Dylan Thomas; Virginia Woolf)
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London: Hulton Press, 1954. (xi) 256 pp. Quarter-bound in white cloth on blue, white and gilt decorated boards; decorated in gilt on the spine; illustrated boards and illustrated throughout with black and white and colour plates. Wear at the corners of the dustjacket with a few nicks and short tears around the edges; protected by mylar; price intact; previous owner's name inside. The Contents are: Introduction; Awakening; Delights of the Senses; Being and Doing; Loving; Dreaming; Making; Understanding; and Falling Asleep; followed by Notes on the Illustrations; and Index of Authors and Composers. Some of the artists and writers featured here are: Edgar Degas; Augustus John; Renoir; Monet; Edwin Smith; Watteau; Pieter Brueghel the Elder; Rembrandt; Frances Bacon; Beethoven; William Blake; James Boswell; Robert Browning; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; G. K. Chesterton; Joseph Conrad; Walter de la Mare; Thomas De Quincey; George Eliot; David Garnett; Thomas Gray; Thomas Hood; Aldous Huxley; Ben Jonson; John Keats; Ogden Nash; Plato; William Shakespeare; Percy Bysshe Shelley; Edmund Spenser; Robert Louis Stevenson; Dylan Thomas; Paul Verlaine; Virginia Woolf; William Wordsworth; and many, many more.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. Illus. by Edgar Degas; Augustus John; Renoir; Monet; Edwin Smith; Watteau; Pieter Brueghel the Elder; Rembrandt;. 8vo.
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- Illustrator Edgar Degas; Augustus John; Renoir; Monet; Edwin Smith; Watteau; Pieter Brueghel the Elder; Rembrandt;
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- Publisher Hulton Press
- Place of Publication London
- Date Published 1954
- Keywords fine art; writing; poetry; music; painting;
- Size 8vo
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A Book of Delights: An Anthology of Words and Pictures
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A Book of Delights: An Anthology of Words and Pictures
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Universe Publishing, 1977. Unabridged. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jack.
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Edward Hulton, 1955. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1955. Revised and Reprinted. 256 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue paper covered boards with gilt. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.
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NY: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st edition, NY, Arrowhead (1954). Near fine copy, in slightly worn dust jacket. .
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Hulton Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1954. First Edition. Tight unmarked book in crisp dust jacket with touch of shelfwear. ; 256 pages .
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London: Hulton Press, 1954. Book. Very Good. Cloth. Reprint.. 256pp; Profusely illustrated in b/w and colour; A bright copy in an unclipped but slightly sunned d/w; Size: Sml 4to.
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New York: Arrowhead Books, 1954. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with the slightest of toning to the white portion of the spine.
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Edward Hulton, 1957-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. 1957 on blue half bound cloth
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London, United Kingdom
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London: Edward Hulton, 1959 Inscribed by John Hadfield on reverse of fep.Spine of d/j sunned, a little wear to extremities,a couple of small nicks.
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A BOOK OF DELIGHTS
by John Hadfield
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Pomona, New York, United States
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New York: Arrowhead Books, Inc.. 1954. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in boards. Rubbing along bottom of both panel edges. .
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