Isbn: 9780218511567 - ghastly good taste (12 Ergebnisse)

hardcover. Zustand: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Used; Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Aged book. Tanned pages and age spots, however, this will not interfere with reading.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Very Good Hardcover. Some shelf wear on the ends of the spine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. 2nd Edition. 112pp hardback, black cloth silver-lettered over pink boards, folding plates at rear, few marks to the wrapper especially over rear board.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. This is the 1970 revised edition (first published 1933). Pink paper covered boards with title in silver on black cloth spine and in black on front cover. Condition: Good, with light bumping to lower right corner of front cover. Binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Good, with general light shelfwear, light sunning to edges and some light soiling to rear cover of dustjacket. Price-clipped. 112pp. One folding b/w illustration by Peter Fleetwood-Hesketh, 9ft long.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition hardback with dustjacket. Slight fading to DJ spine and a little chipped to head of DJ at spine. Internally clean. Very good / very good - condition. Peter Fleetwood Hesketh (illustrator).

Hardback. First. Betjeman on the English architecture and its downfall with also a general decline in taste Comes with a beauitful super long 9 feet foldout illustration of English architectural styles ppxxviii112 Good Unusual book. book.

Hardback. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Revised and Annotated Edition. This copy is in mint unmarked condition, bright, tight, white and square. Quarter bound in black clot to the spine with bright silver gilt titling to pink paper covered boards. There is a mint, nine feet long, architectural panorama tipped in to the rear paste down. The price clipped dustwrapper has one or two small closed tears and is sunned to the spine but has now been coveres in clear, removable, protective film. If you have never seen or experienced a snook being cocked then this is the book for you. John Betjeman was also passionate about architecture, 'preferring all centuries to my own'. In his first prose work, Ghastly Good Taste (1933), he vigorously defends his love of Victorian and Edwardian architecture, considered deeply unfashionable at the time. With the savage humour of his famous satire 'Slough', he attacks notions of Modernism and (at the other extreme) unthinking antiquarianism. In this the revised and annotated edition the rise and fall of English architecture is illustrated with a specially drawn fold out nine foot long panorama of architectural styles. Ref SS6. Peter Fleetwood-Hesketh (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Zustand: Very Good. John Betjeman - Ghastly Good Taste, Luxury, Signed, limited edition, 1970.Limited to 200 copies - this is no. 84 and signed by Betjeman to front endpaper.Publisher: Anthony Blond, London.Binding: hardback cloth with leather spine in cardboard slipcase.Illustrated: yes.Description / Condition: Light edge wear to slipcase. Minor marks to book spine. Light foxing to pages. A nice, rare edition.Please see pictures for further information.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. N0. 99 of edition of 200. Signed by author. Slight wear to edge of leather on spine otherwise as new. Lacks slipcase. (F1).

Zustand: Fine. LIMITED EDITION, this numbered '191' of a total edition of 200 copies. SIGNED by the author on the limitation page (the front free endpaper). Publisher's brown cloth with quarter black leather binding and gilt lettering to spine, green endpapers. Designed by Sebastian Carter. Peter Fleetwood-Hesketh's 'The Street of Taste or the March of English Art Down the Ages' is the nine feet long folding chronology, attached to the second endpaper. Author's note: 'All the buildings are imaginary, except one which was demolished in 1961. All the traffic is real.' Octavo. pp. xxviii, 116. A book in Fine condition with some rubbing to the leather quarter binding at the spine head and tail, commensurate with ag The first edition of this book was published in 1933 by Chapman and Hall. This limited edition includes the author's sixteen page 'Introduction. An Aesthete's Apologia'.…