Hackett B J, First Edition (3 results)

First Pan Paperback Edition / First Print. Paprback copy, no dustjacket as issued. 435pp. B/w photographs and maps. Not library copy, no inscriptions, light creasing to spine. ().

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. HBDJ, STATED SEPT 1927 ON COPYRIGHT PG, 1ST EDITION, VG+/ VG- WITH PIECE OUT OF DJ SPINE IN MIDDLE SECTION, GREEN & BLACK PICTORIAL DUSTJACKET OF LARGE SAILING SHIP WITH LITE EDGE WEAR tiny tears CHIPS, Pinkish edge stain on back of dj, 320 PGS , NO ADS IN BACK ,aspects of Victorian Society, including criminal punishment, religion, and anthropocentrism. For example, according to Erewhonian law, offenders are treated as if they were ill, whereas ill people are looked upon as criminals. The title references the name of a country that is supposedly discovered by the protagonist. Utopian novel, NOWHERE SPELLED BACKWARDS OR ANAGRAM, book revolves around a young shepher.

Hardcover (leather). Hackett, B.J. (illustrator). Unpublished. 26p (stiff paper), 20 mounted photos. Most are in a cabinet card format and affixed to another mount, which is then glued onto the page. One photo is in a carte-de-visite format, and one photo is mounted upside down. The remaining 6 pages are blank. All signed within the photo by Hackett, some with a Reading, PA, and later a Philadelphia address. One mount is stamped J.S. Fritz of Reading, a photographer who was active there in 1886-1896. This album was possibly assembled as a salesman's sample book or as Hackett's record of his work. He identified himself as "Animal Painter, Horses in Motion a Specialty." The composite photos show his simple drawings or watercolors of trotting horses on the road coupled with photographic portraits of their drivers. Probably the driver's photo was superimposed onto the original scene, and then all was rephotographed. The subjects are chiefly singles or pairs put to wagons, carts, sleighs, a delivery van, and other vehicles. The gentlemen drivers are sometimes accompanied by passengers, including women and children. There is one woman driver, with two children. Two men are shown astride. The landscapes are chiefly generic, but several photos seem to show a specific locale--an institutional type building atop a hill, and a nearby factory with smokestacks (photos 2 and 3). A few of the horses are identified. Presumably their owners or drivers commissioned the original art. We know of one framed original showing a veterinarian driver. Thanks to little-known vernacular artist Hackett, we have these very personal and engaging records of the pride once taken in a fast trotting horse. Covers are fair (dry, loose); images are generally good to very good (some are loosening from the page).