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Very Good jacket. First Edition. Hamish Hamilton 1969 first. Condition: Very Good. Clean copy-tight Harcover binding with clear complete text and illustrations. Includes a fine original Dust Jacket. ALL ITEMS ARE SENT BY ROYAL MAIL.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($6.95 price intact). Published by W.W. Norton and co., 1969. Octavo. Black cloth over white boards stamped in gold. Book is very good; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners. Binding tight and pages crisp. Spine lean. Dust jacket is very good with shelf wear, edge wear, nicks, a small tear to the front bottom left corner, a stain to the front top left corner, and the front flap clipped. 307 pages. ISBN: 0393074544. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!
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Very Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. BOOK: Previous Owner Markings (Gift Inscription and Subsequent Owner Name Both Neatly Inked to Front Free Endpaper); Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Moderately Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Previous Owner Markings (Price Clipped); Repaired; Lightly Creased; Moderately Chipped; Moderate Yellowing Due to Previous Use of Non-Archival Quality Adhesive Tape; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. Illustrated. JACKET DESIGN BY: Craig Dodd. SYNOPSIS: This is the story of the first fifty years of Holman Hunt's private life until his second marriage to Edith Waugh, his deceased wife's sister. Such a union was illegal at that time. Their only grandchild, Diana, has had access to an immense number of hitherto unpublished family papers and letters from hunt and his friends. These she has combined with research into the backgrounds of characters "from the peerage to the stable" who were intimately concerned with the dilemmas which prevalent convention forced upon him. Her revelations show that "Holy Hunt" was a misnomer. "Human Hunt" or even "Inhuman Hunt" would seem more appropriate. She describes his flaunting of parental and academic authority, his wrestling with the devil, a huge snarling hairy beast whose terrifying visitations haunted him always, and reveals his early infatuation for the young effeminate Millais--who he admitted was his ideal physical type--and the strong mutual attraction shared with Gabriel Rossetti. The intense and jealous reactions of the pre-Raphaelite group would be assessed as homosexual today. Millais cried himself to sleep at the thought of Hunt leaving without him for the East; Ruskin implored him to stay; Gabriel Rossetti and others pleaded to accompany him. But by his early twenties Hunt's emotional relationships with men were superseded by his obsession for beautiful girls and women who were "divinely tall and most divinely fair" with aquiline noses and column-like necks. He perused such "stunners" relentlessly across country fields, through London streets, at Oxford Commems, or at grand balls and parties in the houses of the rich and great in England, in Italy and the East. His prolonged passion for the siren-like but frivolous Annie Miller, whose favours he shard for some time unwittingly with men as different in temperament as Gabriel Rossetti and Lord Ranelagh, the notorious rake, is high comedy at times. We share in various attempts made by interested parties to educate Annie as a presentable wife. The suitable lodgings recommended by F. G. Stephens for Hunt's "fair lady" turn out to be little better than a brothel in the end. Hunt becomes a victim to blackmail while, with a dormant conscience, Annie thrives on the wages of sin, for which Hunt pays. Before he falls in love with his first wife Hunt is embroiled in scandals of all kinds, threatened with actions for libel and slander involving such famous names as Dickens, Madox Brown, Burne-Jones, Swinburne and Rossetti. His first marriage ends in tragedy within a year. These emotional experiences with women are countered by bloodcurdling adventures with brigands, assassins and necromancers in the East. Hunt shows amazing courage and sangfroid in dealing with these, as well as typical British eccentricity in fulfilling his self-imposed challenge of "art with a message", for example in the case of the unfortunate "scape-goat". Whatever is though of Hunt's painting, the ordinary reader, for whom his grandchild writes, will find Hunt a fascinating character.
