"The art of Electronics" is often adviced as a basic, non-academic textbook for beginners and for all the enthusiasts. It is referenced also in several questions like this one. But in the Table of contents it does not have a chapter dedicated to vacuum tubes.
Is there some other book, with a similar approach, which specifically deals with vacuum tubes and shows some amplifier example?
Similar approach may be a tall request- H&H's approach is not typical of older books.
The Radio Amateur's Handbook is a good reference.
The best in-depth reference is probably the MIT Radiation Laboratory series, covering all sorts of military-related wartime electronics work. Many of the techniques can be translated into modern electronics.
Try to find a old RCA Receiving Tube Manual from the early 1970s or earlier. These were basically a collection of datasheets for the tubes RCA made, but also had some introductory chapters on tube design, circuit design with tubes, and example circuits.
It's not really a book like Art of Electronics, but a great online source for info on tubes is TubeBooks.org
There are a number of great vacuum tube books, but it kind of depends on what you want to do. If you're doing guitar or hifi amps, I would highly recommend the appropriate book (he has one for each) by Merlin Blencowe (a.k.a. Valve Wizard). He's an exceptional writer who's very good at making tubes VERY easy to understand.
From Tube Books (http://www.tubebooks.org/technical_books_online.htm), I would recommend "Basic Audio" by Norman Crowhurst. He's also very easy reading and covers a wide range of topics.
Also on Tube Books is RCA's Radiotron Designer's Handbook, which for a long time has been THE go-to book on radio tubes. It's much more math heavy than the other authors, but lots of great info.
I'm not an expert in electronics, so I don't know what the H&H approach is, but as an enthusiastic artist smitten with the intricacy of tubes, I wonder if archive.org's holdings might be the answer:
https://archive.org/details/vacuumtubemanuals
Particularly charming cartoons start this book:https://archive.org/details/Rider_-_Inside_the_Vacuum_Tube_1945
Here's a free resource that is basically a small textbook:
DRAKE radio encyclopedia 1928 edition .Fascinating to see what they knew then .If you look up "computer " there is nothing.Very entertaining book .
