Home & Van Thal, 1948, Hardcover (Original Cloth), Book Condition: Good, Dust Jacket Condition: Poor, First
500 g.; VIII, 324 pages, foreword by author, and index. Red coloured boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. Bumping to the top backstrip edge and to the book corners. A few marks to the cloth of the book. Browning and foxing to the text block edges. Offset tanning and browning to the endpapers and the internal text has become quite age toned. Illustrated dustwrapper with white and orange background and white titles to the front panel and white titles to the backstrip. Rubbing and chipping, with loss to the dustwrapper corners and to the head and to the heel of the backstrip. The back strip has become quite faded as has the top left-hand corner of the front dustwrapper panel. There is an arcing tear that goes the full width of the rear dustwrapper panel. Slight yellowing and handling marks of the rear dustwrapper panel. The biography of the author who was both an artist and a musician in the middle 20th century. Some of his close contacts included Delius, D. H. Lawrence, Matthew Smith and Sibelius amongst others. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. We are happy to provide pictures of this book on request Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Biography -- Arts; Inventory No: 0106960.
500 g.; VIII, 324 pages, foreword by author, and index. Red coloured boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. Bumping to the top backstrip edge and to the book corners. A few marks to the cloth of the book. Browning and foxing to the text block edges. Offset tanning and browning to the endpapers and the internal text has become quite age toned. Illustrated dustwrapper with white and orange background and white titles to the front panel and white titles to the backstrip. Rubbing and chipping, with loss to the dustwrapper corners and to the head and to the heel of the backstrip. The back strip has become quite faded as has the top left-hand corner of the front dustwrapper panel. There is an arcing tear that goes the full width of the rear dustwrapper panel. Slight yellowing and handling marks of the rear dustwrapper panel. The biography of the author who was both an artist and a musician in the middle 20th century. Some of his close contacts included Delius, D. H. Lawrence, Matthew Smith and Sibelius amongst others. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. We are happy to provide pictures of this book on request Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Biography -- Arts; Inventory No: 0106960.