Author: John Betjeman
Title: Summoned by Bells
Description: London, John Murray, 1960. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of John Betjeman's autobiography in blank verse, with the original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original price-clipped dust wrapper. A collection of personal and intimate autobiographical blank verse poems by noted Poet Laureate John Betjeman. These poems relay his life from his early memories of a middle-class home in Edwardian Hampstead, London, to his premature departure from Magdalen College, Oxford. The work was read chapter by chapter in a series of radio broadcasts on BBC radio by the author. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original price-clipped dust wrapper. Externally, cloth is in lovely bright condition. Gilt to spine remains bright. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Dust wrapper is generally smart with small marks to the spine and front of the wrap. Two small closed tears to the rear of the wrap, and chipping to the tail of the spine, repaired with tape to the reverse of the wrap. Fine . Ill.: Michael Tree. Fine/Very Good.
Keywords: John Betjeman Poetry Autobiography Poetry Michael Tree
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Title: Summoned by Bells
Description: London, John Murray, 1960. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of John Betjeman's autobiography in blank verse, with the original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original price-clipped dust wrapper. A collection of personal and intimate autobiographical blank verse poems by noted Poet Laureate John Betjeman. These poems relay his life from his early memories of a middle-class home in Edwardian Hampstead, London, to his premature departure from Magdalen College, Oxford. The work was read chapter by chapter in a series of radio broadcasts on BBC radio by the author. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original price-clipped dust wrapper. Externally, cloth is in lovely bright condition. Gilt to spine remains bright. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Dust wrapper is generally smart with small marks to the spine and front of the wrap. Two small closed tears to the rear of the wrap, and chipping to the tail of the spine, repaired with tape to the reverse of the wrap. Fine . Ill.: Michael Tree. Fine/Very Good.
Keywords: John Betjeman Poetry Autobiography Poetry Michael Tree
Price: GBP 58.00 = appr. US$ 82.82 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 895M8
- Book number: 895M8
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