DANCING IN THE WIND : Poetry and Art of the British Isles

New York: Harry N Abrams, 2002. 144pp., colour and b/white art and photographic illustrations throughout. Book clean, square. Spine firm, white title there-on. Plain green boards near fine. Leaves clean. Art-illustrated (Front panel: 'The Day Dream -detail- Rossetti, 1880; Rear panel: 'Mount's Bay and Tolcarne from Trewidden Farm Footpath with Althea and Her Mother'- detail- Norman Garstin, c. 1898) dustjacket negligibly surface scuffed only, original price-sticker to lower rear panel. "In this volume, works of poets and artists are paired according to themes: Shakespeare and William Blake on kingship, W.B.Yeats and Paula Rego on childhood, Carol Ann Duffy and R.B. Kitaj on being foreign, Seamus Heaney and Richard Hamilton on military power . . . Charles Sullivan has assembled a montage of words and pictures that presents the British Isles and their inhabitants from differing viewpoints and relates the histories, interactions, and cultures of the complex people who have become known as the English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh." Book weight approx. 1.02 KG. * Buyers outside Australia - This item will incur extra postage charges as it weighs over 1KG. Please email for quote. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. First Edition.. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Near Fine/Very Good +.