Buy this book on-line JOHN BETJEMAN : contributes his six-page article 'Shakespeare on the Screen' to the anthology Press Gang! Crazy World Chronicle. Edited with an introductory note by Leonard Russell and with illustrations and a dust wrapper design by Nicolas BentleyHutchinson, London, 1937
First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xv, 300pp. Dark green buckram, lettered and ruled in gold at the spine and with the publisher's vibrant green top-edge stain. The scattering of light spotting to the fore edge, and some further light spotting and a little partial toning to the free endpapers. A very good copy in the quite uncommon dust wrapper, price-clipped and somewhat toned, chafed, rubbed and edge-worn. An amusing parody of 1930s journalism, issued as a companion volume to Russell's 'Parody Party' (1936), this time with contributors including Betjeman, Hilaire Belloc, Cyril Connolly, E.M.Delafield, Ronald Knox, D.B.Wyndham Lewis, J.B.Morton, Dilys Powell, Peter Quennell, Edward Shanks and others.. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: 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 : contributes his six-page article 'Shakespeare on the Screen' to the anthology Press Gang! Crazy World Chronicle. Edited with an introductory note by Leonard Russell and with illustrations and a dust wrapper design by Nicolas Bentley. 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 incunabula, livres illustrées, libri antichi, out-of-print books and livres d'occasion. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |