Buy this book on-line JOHN BETJEMAN : Continual Dew. A Little Book of Bourgeois Verse. With drawings and an elaborate cover-design by Osbert LancasterJohn Murray, London, 1937
First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 45pp. Black cloth, lavishly lettered and decorated in gold at the upper board. All edges gilt. Binding slightly cocked and covers just a little marked and handled in places. Quite a good, bright copy. The front panel and flap of the attractive McKnight Kauffer-designed dust wrapper has been tipped-in to the front endpapers. Betjeman's fifth book, and second collection of verse, comprising thirty-three poems, eighteen of which appear here in bookform for the first time. The author's note includes a deliberate error, thanking "Mr. C.S.Lewis for the fact on page 256" (the volume runs to only 45 pages). Peterson A5.. Book. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Poor Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of JOHN BETJEMAN : Continual Dew. A Little Book of Bourgeois Verse. With drawings and an elaborate cover-design by Osbert Lancaster. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including libri rari, out-of-print books, rare books, incunabula and atlases. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |