HILLIER, BEVIS - John Betjeman - the Biography

London, John Murray. 2006. (ISBN: 0719564433). Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good+ clean, tight and unmarked copy with light creasing to spine and one back corner tip. 590 pages. 61 illustrations. Originally published in three volumes, this book is a distillation authorized by Betjeman himself. It takes the reader from Betjeman's troubled childhood in North London, through his blossoming at Oxford; a gay fling with W.H. Auden; a clandestine marriage to a field-marshal's daughter; pranks as a film critic; wartime service and probable espionage in Ireland, to the glory days of his later years as a much loved poet. A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.95 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST C3B. Very Good/No Jacket.

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