British Orders, Decorations and Medals, by Hall, Donald
British Orders, Decorations and Medals, by Hall, Donald
Hardcover, ISBN 9780859440004
Publisher: Balfour Publications, St Ives, 1973 first edition.
Condition: Very Good. This book is in an excellent condition. The DJ has some very slight signs of edge wear and the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains perfect. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. The book is protected with a Cellophane cover.
First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black paper covered boards, gilt title and author lettering to the spine and to the front cover. Quarto 10'' x 8''. Contains 96 printed pages of text with colour photographs throughout.
Donald Hall was an American poet, writer, editor and literary critic. He began writing as an adolescent and attended the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference at the age of sixteen—the same year he had his first work published. Donald Hall published numerous books of poetry. Besides poetry, Donald Hall wrote books on baseball, the sculptor Henry Moore, and the poet Marianne Moore. He was also the author of children's books. Hall edited more than two dozen textbooks and anthologies. His honors include two Guggenheim fellowships, the Poetry Society of America's Robert Frost Silver medal, a Lifetime Achievement award from the New Hampshire Writers and Publisher Project, and the Ruth Lilly Prize for poetry. Hall also served as Poet Laureate of New Hampshire from 1984 to 1989. In December 1993 he and his wife poet Jane Kenyon were the subject of an Emmy Award-winning Bill Moyers documentary, "A Life Together." In the June 2006, Hall was appointed the Library of Congress's fourteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry.
