Summoned by Bells

John Betjeman

Verlag: John Murray, London, 1960

Beschreibung

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. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 895M8

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Summoned by Bells

Verlag: John Murray, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1960

Einband: Cloth

Illustrator: Michael Tree

Zustand: Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good

Auflage: First edition.

Art des Buches: book