The Saturday Book 15 by John Hadfield - 1955

Hutchinson & Co., 1955. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Macmillan, 1955. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Edgewear to jacket. Price-clipped..

Hutchinson & Co., 1955. Hardcover. Acceptable/Good. 1955. No Edition Remarks. Unpaginated. Illustrated dust jacket over brown cloth with gilt lettering. Illustrated display box. Black and white illustrated and photographic plates. Light tanning to pages. Moderate and frequent cracking to gutters causing some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear. Spine has light sunning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean. Unclipped dust jacket with minor rubbing, chipping and tearing to edges. Minor tanning and scuffing overall. Display case is moderately scuffed and torn.

Macmillan, 1955. hardcover. Good. . Dust jacket and edges shows wear. Dust jacket is covered in brodart plastic. Pages are clean and intact.

London: Hutchinson of London, 1955. items by/about: Laurence Whistler (poem), Fashion (edwin Smith & Olive Cook, C. Willett Cunnington, Mary Eden); Personal Columns (lance Sieveking on Eddie Marsh, Philip Henderson on Laurence Oliphant; nancy Spain on Ethel M. Dell; etc), Sporting (victor Mitzakis, Raymond Mortimer on Croquet, C.H. Gibbs-Smith on Aerial Adventures); Loujis Golding, Josphine Blumenfield, Anna McMullen); Art and Nature (james Laver, Griselda Lewis, Betty Massingham, Count Beckendorf, Seton Gordon, etc), Inventions (Ken Williamson on the Edwardian Case; Olive Cook on Moving Pictures Before Cinematograph, Jeremy Sandford on Mechanical Musicians & LTC Rolt on the Swan Song of Steam), Etc275 pages; dj w/lite wear, unclipped price, in mylar. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Color & b&w. 8 Vo.

Hutchinson, 1955. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Fair. Ex-library. Mainly a reading copy - mostly clean and tightly bound.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

1955. HADFIELD, John. THE SATURDAY BOOK 15. (London): Macmillan Co., (1955). 8vo., brown cloth; illustrated. Near fine, in an edgeworn, slightly soiled dust jacket.

London: Hutchinson & Company, 1955. [Literary annual / the arts] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.276. With photographic plates. Publisher's hardback cloth in a pictorial p/c dust-wrapper designed by Richard Chopping. Very good in a used jacket, chipped to spine ends and extremities. A book of the arts, with contributions by Fred Bason, Laurence Whistler, Joan Hassall, Nancy Spain and others. Richard Chopping, illustrator of the striking dust-jacket, would soon leap to fame, producing the memorable artwork for Ian Fleming's James Bond series. This copy is from the comprehensive archive assembled by Jon Gilbert (pencil signature within). His comprehensive guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Gilbert D20.