Buy this book on-line JOHN BETJEMAN : Continual Dew. A Little Book of Bourgeois Verse. With drawings and an elaborate gilt cover-design by Osbert LancasterJohn Murray, London, 1937
First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 45pp. Gilt-decorared black pebbled cloth. All edges gilt. A touch of minor dust soiling to boards. A very good copy in price-clipped E.McKnight Kauffer dust wrapper, lightly tanned and chafed with several tiny fractions of edge loss. Thirty-three poems (eighteen of which appear here in bookform for the first time): Betjeman's fifth book, and second collection of verse. 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 / Gammond 37B1a.. Book. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Very Good 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 gilt 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 rare books, libri rari, livres anciens, out of print books and livres d'occasion. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |