Search Results: a book of beauty an by john hadfield

London: Readers Union, 1958. A collection of poetry and images that all inspire or are inspired by beauty. Book is in good condition with foxing, cover soil and light edgewear, jacket is in good condition with edgewear, soil and interior foxing. 256 pages, 8.5 x 6.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Illus. by Yes.

London: Hulton Press, 1953. HC. good w/lightly edgeworn dustjacket (hardcover). B&W and color ill.. Selections of pictures, poems and prose. 256pp.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1976. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Revised Edition (First Thus). Gift Inscription On The Ffep. Wear At The Board Ends. Price Clipped. Spine Sunned.

Vista, 1963. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1963. Reprint. 255 pages. Red dust jacket over red paper covered boards with white cloth to spine. Contains black and white and colour plates throughout. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Sticker to front pastedown. Thumb-marking present. Some creasing to gutter. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges. Water staining and bubbling to rear board. White and brown marks overall. Textblock is shaky. Unclipped jacket has heavy edgewear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and, creasing. Noticeable tanning to spine. Some rubbing to surfaces. Scuffing to edges. Water staining to rear panel.

Studio vista limited london, 1965. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1965. Reprinted. 256 pages. Red dust jacket over red paper covered boards.Contains black and white photographic plates. Binding remains firm.Pages & plates remain bright with minimal tanning. Boards have light edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and spine is presentable with minimal crushing and tanning. Clipped jacket. Jacket has moderate edge-wear with chips, tears, and creasing.

NY: Universe Books. VG in VG DJ. (1977). Beautiful pictures with beautiful poems. Owner name ft flyleaf. .

Readers Union, London, 1958. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Good/Poor. Illustrator: Illustrated. introduction by editor, acknowledgements, notes on the illustrations and and index of authors and composers. Illustrated endpapers. Colour illustrated frontispiece, being a reproduction of Jan Vermeer of Delft's painting "Allegory Of Painting". The text is illustrated with both colour and black and white photographs and illustrations throughout by various artists and illustrators. 1/4 white coloured back strip with gilt coloured titles. 3/4 gilt and white design against a red coloured boards. Illustrated dustwrapper, same illustration as the underlying boards with black coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. An anthology of poetry, prose interspersed with pictures. An anthology of poetry, prose which is interspersed with pictures. Bumping and discolouration to the backstrip and to the book corners. Lower corners show underlying board and there is heavy wear to the… Read More

Universe Books, 1977-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Good condition with wear and markings.

Hulton Press. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1955. Tight square book, unmarked but for inscription to front endpaper; in dust jacket with some loss in area of spine. ; 256 pages .

Hulton, 1953-01-01. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable Jacket. 8x7x1. Acceptable condition jackets have more than average wear, tears and repairs. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.

NY/London: Macmillan, 1952. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. Very good hardcover with good dustwrapper. First US edition. Text clean. Illustrated. Spine lean. Corners on cover bent. Dustwrapper browning. Edges of dustwrapper are chipped and torn. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

Studio Vista, 1965. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1965. Reprinted. 255 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over pictorial paper covered boards with white cloth to spine. Black and white and colour illustrated plates with black and white photographic plates throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and plates are lightly tanned throughout. Previous owner's inscription to half-title page. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges.

London: Edward Hulton, 1952. Cloth Spine and Boards. Near Very Good/No Jacket. He has found much that the general run of anthologies misses, and everything he has found seems to me to be a gem", (Howard Spring.) Beautiful poetry and Prose complemented with colour and B&W works of art. White cloth spine and red paper covered boards with gilt and white fine decoration. 255 Pages, 720g, 8 1/2" Tall. Some edge wear. No inscriptions. Pages in very good, clean condition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall

London: Edward Hulton, 1952. Cloth Spine and Boards. Near Very Good/No Jacket. He has found much that the general run of anthologies misses, and everything he has found seems to me to be a gem", (Howard Spring.) Beautiful poetry and Prose complemented with colour and B&W works of art. White cloth spine and red paper covered boards with gilt and white fine decoration. 255 Pages, 720g, 8 1/2" Tall. Some edge wear. No inscriptions. Pages in very good, clean condition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall

London: Edward Hulton, 1958. Hardcover. Very Good. Later printing. 256pp. Illustrated. Very good ex-library copy with usual library markings, worn edges, and toning.

London: Hulton Press. Good; Shelfwear, owners name ffep. Darkened endpapers and spine. Foxing to . side edge750gms weight. 1952. Hardcover. Reprinted 1956. B/w and colour plates . Index of authors and composers ; Color Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 258 pages .

London: Edward Hulton, 1956. Cloth Spine and Boards. Near Very Good/Good+. He has found much that the general run of anthologies misses, and everything he has found seems to me to be a gem", Howard Spring. Beautiful poetry and Prose complemented with colour and B&W works of art. White cloth spine and red paper covered boards with gilt and white fine decoration. 8 1/2" Tall. No inscriptions. Some wear to jacket, not clipped. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall

New York: Macmillan, 1952. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with two tiny tears at the crown, and the slightest of toning to the white portion of the spine.

London: Hulton Press, 1952. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, later (1955) printing of this First Edition, 256 pages, plus numerous full page plates in full colour and black-and-white; red and gold patterned cloth covers with faded but legible gilt lettering on quarter white cloth spine, gently used, light shelf wear along bottom cover edges and gentle bumps to spine ends and corners, tight in binding, very clean and unmarked throughout; DJ bumped, rubbed and creased along edges, heavily chipped at sun faded spine ends, now in new mylar protector. See also our listings for The Bedside Esquire, or for something completely different, The Bedside Milligan, or, Read Your Way to Insomnia, or perhaps The Punch Bedside Book.. Hard Cover. Very Good -/Good.

London: Hulton Press and Vista Books, 1960. 2nd Edition 5th or later Printing. Hard. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Very good in good dust jackets. Lavishly illustrated with glorious colour plates reproduced from works of art.