Buy this book on-line JOHN BETJEMAN : Ghastly Good Taste; or a Depressing Story of the Rise and Fall of English Architecture. (SIGNED LIMITED EDITION)Anthony Blond, London, 1970
The deluxe issue of the expanded second edition, designed by Sebastian Carter and limited to 200 numbered copies, signed by the author (this being #75). 4to. xxviii, 112pp. Quarter leather with cloth-covered sides, gilt lettered at the spine. A tiny hint of chafing to the backstrip leather, else a fine copy. No dust wrapper called for, but housed in the original cloth-covered slipcase. Laid-in is a printed card from Betjeman on his Cloth Fair letterhead, acknowledging well wishers upon being named Poet Laureate ( ". I am sure you will forgive this short note of thanks, but I am inundated with letters and I do so want to reply to them all . "). Betjeman's second book, 'Ghastly Good Taste' was first published in 1933. This expanded edition includes 'An Aesthete's Apologia', a new sixteen page introduction by the author, and Peter Fleetwood-Hesketh's splendid folding illustration is here enlarged from forty inches to a scarcely credible nine feet.. Book. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hardcover 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 : Ghastly Good Taste; or a Depressing Story of the Rise and Fall of English Architecture. (SIGNED LIMITED EDITION). 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 out of print books, out-of-print books, libri antichi, livres anciens and rare books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |