Edited by Hunter Davies (8 results)

hardback, small 8vo, 374pp, illustrated, clean and tight, no inscriptions, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper. ISBN: 9780711231108.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st thus. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 386 pages.

2011, 414pp. Illustrated. Cloth, with dust jacket. In very good condition. Pakketzending. Alfred Wainwright, the legendary fell walker and author of the incomparable and unique Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells was also a fluent, eloquent and diligent correspondent. Writing to old friends and to the many new ones gained through his books, and to his love, and later second wife, Betty, his letters display a much warmer, more sensitive and emotional character than his gruff popular image would suggest. Hunter Davies, Wainwright's biographer, has here collected a selection of letters that range from his early years in Blackburn to his established position as Borough Treasurer in Kendal, and cover all aspects of his professional and personal life, as well as the voluminous correspondence that was a consequence of writing and publishing the Pictorial Guides. The latter vividly illuminate many aspects of that turbulent but ultimately triumphant process, while the former present a picture of a dedicated public servant whose personal life had been deeply unhappy until late in life he found unexpected but transcendent love and happiness. In turn business-like and comic, wonderfully well informed and remarkably innocent, deeply moving and yet tough-minded, the letters present a vivid and unforgettable picture of one of the great but eccentric creative geniuses of the twentieth century.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. Slight mark to page edges. End papers a little mottled. Light rubbing to extremities.

Condition: Very Good. Large format 8vo. Hardcover in d/w. Very good, owner's inscription on fep. / Good+ creased d/w.

Condition: Poor. Large format 8vo. Hardcover in d/w. Near fine.

Anthony Blond Ltd. 1966. First edition. Hardback with DW. Pages foxed very lightly to edges. Boards very lightly worn to spine. Wrapper slightly browned to front and spine, and slightly marked to rear. A clean and sound copy.

Stapled Booklet, Stiff Cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 64 pages with colour photography. Also included is a 1980 colour poster 18 X 23" of John Lennon produced by the now defunct 'Melbourne Observer'. An interesting and scarce item for the serious collector. Size: 11 1/2 X 9".