Hicks, David

David Hicks On Living - With Taste [1968 1ST EDITION 1ST PRINTING WITH DUST JACKET]

Leslie Frewin, 1968. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Leslie Frewin. London. 1968. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in blue cloth-bound boards, green-blue-yellow stripy dust jacket. 150 pages with b&w and color photographs throughout taken by David Hicks himself. BOOK CONDITION: Fine; a solid, tight, clean copy., in a Very Good Plus (VG+) dust jacket showing overall toning/fading to panels and spine,  wear to edges, and corners with small closed tears and associated creasing to upper right corner of front panel and hints of loss and wear to foot of spine (presensts nicely in a new, clear brodart protector). 

The second volume in David Hicks' classic series of design volumes, with the iconic stripy dust jacket. 'This lavish and elegant volume pin-points all aspects of Living with Taste and covers flower arrangements, tablescapes, wall arrangements, massing, style, lighting and general decoration. It shows how people can live with taste, regardless of their incomes, and selects and expounds on all types of accessories from door handles to lavatories.... "It is amazing how few poeple bother to cultivate their taste and how very many people there are with no taste - either good or bad, or any feelings about it and all that it affects."'. Fine / Very Good Plus. Item #11245

Price: $250.00