Buy this book on-line TREVOR,WILLIAM: : NIGHTS AT THE ALEXANDRALONDON.HUTCHINSON,1987. ISBN 0091684609.
UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,no price-clip to dw/dj.
Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,wrap-around colour pictorial artwork by Paul Hogarth,illustrated dw/dj,with negligible shelf-wear and minimal creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine - no dog-ear creases to any
pages' corners - an unread copy? Bright,
clean,sharp-cornered,quarto bound with publisher's original red cloth bds and black cloth blind spine with author's bright,crisp,stamped facsimile signature to upper bd and bright,crisp stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain red chain laid endpapers.Slim 8vo,1-71pp[paginated]includes six chapters,6 full-page b/w illustrations/lithographs by Paul Hogarth,interspersed throughout
the text and the book,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,separator page - recto of which contains list of author's other works/titles,and publisher's advert for list of other novellas from the publisher's same series.
Part of a series of novellas,10 in all,
published by Hutchinson,and this was the most successful of the series.Other notable authors and titles from this series include Malcolm Bradbury, Ruth Rendell, Christopher Hope, Alan Sillitoe, Francis King, Colleen McCullough,Fay
Weldon, Brian Aldiss and Maurice Leitch.A really exceptional copy.
Arthur Paul Hogarth (b.1917).Works as Paul Hogarth.Born Kendal,Cumbria,son of a maste butcher and farmer.Studied at Manchester College of Art (1933-36) and at
St. Martin's School of Art,London (1938-40).Worked as assistant to James Boswell (1946-48).Lecturer at the Central School of Arts and Crafts (1950-54),senior
lecturer at Cambridge School of Art (1959-61),tutor at the Royal College of Art (1965-71) and visiting lecturer there (1971-82).
Since 1954,when he visited China,he has worked as an artist-reporter and social commentator,as well as illustrating Victorian classics and contemporaray works
of fiction.A specialist in architectural history,he has worked for the US National Trust,the National Geographic Society Book
Service and the Smithsonian Publishing Task Force,and has written and illustrated
a series of guide books on American cities.During the 1950's and 60's,he worked mainly in charcoal or very soft pencil on high quality paper,but more recently much of his work has been in colour,and he has made lithographic prints.Hogarth considers that his work lies 'within the peculiarly English tradition of topographical drawing or watercolour blended with caricature,' and feels that travel has played a decisive part in the formation of his style and methods.He acknowledges the influence (at various times) of the Victorian illustrator Arthur Boyd Houghton (on whom he published a monograph in 1982),James Boswell and Ronald Searle,a close friend with whom he travelled widely in post-war Europe.Doctor of the Royal College of Art;
elected ARA (1973),FSIA,RDI (1979).Prize-winner in the Francis Williams Book Illustration Award for 1982.A Royal Academician since 1984 and awarded the OBE in 1989.
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