The Best of the The Saturday Book

Hadfield, John (editor)

Publication Date	1981
ISBN	0091459907
Publisher	Hutchinson,
Binding	Hardback
Condition	Good, sound, ex-library copy
SKU	22848
Notes	Brown cloth with printed black labels to front and spine and gilt titles to same is very clean and neat. Colour illustrated dust jacket is also very clean but slightly rubbed and rolled to edges a two inch closed tears to the front and another to the back which has been mended with archival tape (which does not yellow). Not price clipped. Contemporary gift inscription to endpapers. The matching box is a little softened to edges and somewhat rubbed and scuffed, and is faded to the sides, else clean, sound and square.

Description

Hardback. The Saturday Book was an annual cultural miscellany edited in its later years by John Hadfield (author of Love on a Branch Line). This edition being a celebration of of highlights. An intriguing selection with a pieces on pin-ups of the past, a poem on Stanley Matthews with an accompanying engraving by David Gentleman, contributions by Jilly Cooper and Evelyn Waugh, Humphrey Lyttelton on the Golden Age of Jazz, articles on the diamond engraved glass of Laurence Whistler including a series of photographs of Laurence Whistler’s glass and on Fred Astaire accompanied by a lovely series of photographs of Astaire with a number of different dance partners 50 colour illustrations and 170 black and white. Colour illustrated dust jacket with illustration by Philip Gough.

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