Hadfield John Compiled (38 results)

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

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable Jacket. This book does include a jacket. Part of the back of the jacket is missing and has been replaced. First Edition. The copyright page has 'First Published in 1954'. No additional printings are indicated. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Condition: Good. 1954. First Edition. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial paper covered boards with cloth spine. Colour and black and white illustration plates. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding loose. Boards have moderate shelf wear with some rubbing and corner bumping. Some moderate to heavy marking and tanning. Book has slight forward lean.

Condition: Good. DJ may have small chips, toning and tears. Book will have been read but remains clean. Cover may have light wear or slight soiling. Pages may be slightly tanned. May contain inscriptions but text pages will be free from markings.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. ILLUSTRATED (illustrator). 1st Edition. First Edition, 256pp, well-illustrated in colour, hardcover, 8vo, bound in green patterned paper colour boards with white cloth spine, gilt lettered, patterned endpapers, dust jacket unclipped but worn at extremities, previous owner's name written on endpapers o/w good condition, Vista Books, London, 1960. * on the theme of the pleasures of life .

Condition: 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.

Paper Boards White Cloth Spine. Condition: VERY GOOD ( AVERAGE). No Jacket. Black & White & Colour Ilustrations Throughout (illustrator). Reprint. Grubby spine , slightly rubbed edges.Please e-mail for further details and don't hesitate to ask if you require pictures Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Signed By a "Basil G.T. Elmes.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Illustrated in both color and black and white. Toned and bumped along the spine and board edges, page edges and several pages lightly foxed, one page with a creased tear on the foredge, very good, lacking the dust jacket.

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

Title: A Book of Delights Compiler: John Hadfield Publisher: Hulton Press, London Publication Date: 1954 Binding: Hardcover Condition: Very Good Dust Jacket Condition: Good Description: A very good copy of A Book of Delights, compiled by John Hadfield and published by Hulton Press in 1954. Original boards are strong, clean, and square with tight binding. Dust jacket present, showing tears to the front panel and upper spine but still complete and bright. No inscriptions or other markings. Text clean and sharp throughout. A charming mid-century anthology of prose and verse celebrating everyday pleasures, beautifully compiled and illustrated. Bibliographic details: 8vo, original cloth, gilt spine title, illustrated, 256 pp. (approx.), with index.

Paper Boards White Cloth Spine. Condition: VERY GOOD ( AVERAGE). No Jacket. Black & White & Colour Ilustrations (illustrator). First Edition. Contents Near Fine (NEAR NEW).POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES! AND FULLY INSURED! (UK ONLY).Please e-mail for further details and don't hesitate to ask if you require pictures Size: 8vmo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Signed By a "Basil G.T. Elmes".

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with the slightest of toning to the white portion of the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Blue boards decorated with white and gilt design. White spine with gilt titles. Pictorial end papers with some browning. Unclipped dj which matches front cover of book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. A clean, tight copy. Light wear to the edges. Several small tears to the jacket. Some chips to the jacket. Multiple signatures to to first page. Colour frontispiece. Black and white and colour plates throughout. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. Hardback. dust jacket. Photograph available on request.

Cloth Spine and Boards. Condition: 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.

Cloth Spine and Boards. Condition: 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.

Hardback. First Edition. White cloth spine with red decorative paper covered boards in good condition despite a little discolouration to the spine Decorative endpapers with previous owners label to the front free endpaper The occasional spot of foxing otherwise a good clean copy beautifully illustrated pp xiii 256 Overall a good copynbsp. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. price 21s on inside front dust jacket. photo shows good condition of this book.accept pay pal.

Cloth Spine and Boards. Condition: Near Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: 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.

Cloth & Decorative Boards. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Revised and Reprinted. Hardcover. A Book of Delights. An Anthology of Words and Pictures. Heavy foxing to end inside covers and edge. Wear to corners. Browning to spine. Contents: Awakwening. Delight of the Senses. Being and Doing. Loving. Dreaming. Making. Understanding. Falling Asleep. Notes on the Illustrations. Index of Authors and Composers. Illustrated. 256 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).

Cloth & Decorative Boards. Condition: Good. First Edition. In the pages which follow I have tried to illustrate, in the context of such common experiences as awakening, loving, dreaming, making (in the sense of creating), understanding (in the widest sense of worshipping) and falling asleep, the ever-presence of delight, the immanence of happiness. I have also tried to represent, in a series of contracted passages and pictures, the complementary states of 'being' and 'doing'. into which almost all human experience can be divided. Illustrated. Slight foxing to some pages and edges. Some wear to cover and corners. Sunned spine.

Cloth and Boards. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Reprint. Hardcover. A Book of Beauty. An Anthology of Words and Pictures. Previous owners name to inside cover. Slight wear to corners. Wear and tear to edge of D/J. SCouple of small piece of D/J. missing from top of spine. Contents: The Invisible Sun. Look at the Stars! Notes on the Illustrations. Index of Authors and Composers. Illustrated. 256 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.) Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. H/B patterned red bds with white spine some edgewear, d/w some discol. and chipping/edgewear, inscript. on prelim., some sticking of page tops, colour frontis., illust. throughout with pictures in b/w and colour, an anthology of words and pictures.

Hard Back. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Many of the illustrations are here reproduced for the first time. Profusely illus. Renowned artists, authors , poets. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for Further Details and condition. 256pp. 215x175mm. VG/VG [ Book- clean decorative boards, with white quarter binding started to fox [tan] off-set browning to blue illus. end papers, clean throughout, no insc. slight mustiness from storage, not offensive but worthy of mention, Sound binding] Dust Jacket price clipped states 2nd Large Impression, shelf wear to spine top edge, no other noted defect.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. Hardback. Message and date to previous owner to title page. Shelf wear to edges of D/J. Price clipped. 'It combines poetry, prose. picture and song, and the choice of each is that of a man of fastidious taste, with an exquisite sense of the pleasures life has to offer.' (Yorkshire Post). Illustrated. 256 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 256 pages, b/w and a few colour illustrations. Might need a smidgeon of extra postage for overseas.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Please note this is the 1977 BCA edition. A hardback volume in Very Good condition, in a similar dustjacket. This book is in stock now, in our UK premises. Photos of our books are available on request (dustjacket and cover illustrations vary, and unless the image accompanying the listing is marked 'Bookseller Image', it is an Abebooks Stock Image, NOT our own). BUYERS OUTSIDE UK please also note the following: 1. shipping rates apply to packets of 750g and under, and should the packed weight of an item exceed this we reserve the right to ship via 'Economy', or request extra postage prior to fulfilling the order, or cancel 2. many countries apply import or other taxes - these are the buyers responsibility; we may ask for extra payment to cover any taxes which we have to pay 'up front' on the buyer's behalf.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Jacket Frayed Over Upper Spine End And Over Board Corners; Heavily Faded Over Spine. Spine Very Slightly Dented At Base. Boards And All Pages Tightly Bound, Bright And Clean. Lower Board Corners Dented.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Jacket Frayed In A Few Places Along The Spine/Front Board Join, With Inside Corner Ripped Off. Spine Slightly Dented At Base. Board Corners Show Very Slight Denting Too. All Pages Bright, Clean And Tightly Bound.