Robin hadfield (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Good. This is a clear and practical guide to homeo pathy, including its history, uses and benefits. It also giv es advice on creating your own homeopathic first-aid kit. '.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. This is a clear and practical guide to homeo pathy, including its history, uses and benefits. It also giv es advice on creating your own homeopathic first-aid kit. '.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1939 1st edition. 43pp. Good/None. Soft beige card covers with minor rubbing to edges/spine, minor soiling, small ink mark to front. Contents generally clean but for tape marking to edge of gutters on some pages, minor soiling, staples rusted. Author's inscription to ffep. B&W illustrations by John Littlejohn throughout. A small collection of nature themed poems. Robin Dale was pseudonym sometimes used by Alan Hadfield (b.1904), an English teacher at a school in Leeds, a poet, author and sculptor who also ran the Northern Light Press. Littlejohn, John (illustrator). …

Both items in good condition, lightly aged. PAMPHLET: 12pp, 8vo. Stapled in green wraps, printed on both sides of covers, and with drawing of Shaw by Hadfield, dated 1974, on front cover. Containing a few autograph emendations. Inscribed on front cover: 'To Christopher Fry, | from | Alan Hadfield, | Greetings! | Feby 1975'. A quirky and highly personal response to Shaw, combining anecdote, reminiscence and original poetry. A 'BACKWORD' reproduces two communications to Hadfield from Shaw, both from 1941, the first commending his 'neo-Elizabethan lilt', the second commending a bust he had sent him ('Whatever you do, don't be a gentleman-artist, or you will eat your heart out, and starve.'). The only copy of the pamphlet on OCLC WorldCat at the British Library. LETTER. Conclusion of Autograph Letter Signed ('Alan Hadfield'), presumably to Fry, on one side of 19.5 x 9.5 cm piece of paper. Numbered 3. Regarding sculptress he knew when living and teaching English in Jamaica, 'some dozen years ago', the wife of Norman Manley. Concludes: 'I should be greatly honoured if I could attempt a worthwhile portrait of you yourself, in the near future - | either here, or there!' From the Christopher Fry papers.…