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

Softcover. Zustand: 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. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Reprint. Slight mark to page edges. End papers a little mottled. Light rubbing to extremities.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition. Dustwrapper, stout small 4to, pp.viii, 392. Colour, bw illustrations. Near 300 letters, postcards etc from Lennon to a variety of recipients - friends, family, fans, lovers and others reproduced along with comments and background notes by Davies. Letters date from 1951 ( he was 10 ) to the day he was shot in 1980. Fine in dustwrapper. Heavy book weighing c1600g when parcelled, exceeding the postage quotation default weight of 1000g and thus incurring extra postage over the default for orders from overseas and those sent by 1st class post ( 2nd class unaffected ) in the UK. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.…

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.