Glorious  Haven (1984)



Glorious Haven (1984)

= Mills & Boon book originally published 1958 (hardback; text by Bethea Creese)

Arkley archive

The book is largely intact (a few pages removed); a doodle on p.81 is dated 1984, and most of the other drawings probably also date from 1984.

It contains an extensive series of drawings of small doodled cacti, plus some skulls and other doodled forms; the most significant examples are noted below:

  • 53        cacti
  • 65        critter
  • 81        cacti (signed and dated: ‘HA 84’; loose page)
  • 83        cacti (signed l.r: ‘HA’; loose page)
  • 85        cacti (signed l.r.: ‘HA’; loose page)
  • 91        skull & crossbones
  • 93        skull & crossbones (reproduced in Carnival Fig.6.31, with p.92 = verso of previous drawing)
  • 101      skull & crossbones
  • 111       cacti
  • 119       cacti
  • 151       cacti
  • 161       cacti
  • 169-73: more cacti
  • 183      skull & crossbones
  • 185      skull & crossbones on a stand (reproduced opposite)
  • 187      {check}
  • 189      {check} (over Mills & Boon advertisement)
  • 191      {check} (also over Mills & Boon advertisement)
  • 193      {check} (endpapers)