Buy this book on-line JOHN BETJEMAN : Old Lights for New Chancels. Verses Topographical and Amatory. (SIGNED)John Murray, London, 1940
First Edition (first printing) of the author's third full-length collection of verse. This copy signed by the author on the front free endpaper and with a pencilled note in another hand to the base of the front pastedown: "Signed September 6th 1967 at 43, Cloth Fair EC1". Small 8vo. xix, 67pp + [i] publisher's advertisement. Blue pebbled cloth with a paper spine label and a silk place marker. With a frontispiece silhouette of the author, unaccredited but supplied by John Piper (Piper refused a credit, deeming his work "only a tracing"). Top edge lightly spotted and with just a touch of toning to the spine label and some light browning and spotting to the free endpapers. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, tanned at the spine panel, a little marked and soiled in places, with an inch of loss from the base of the spine panel and several further tiny fractions of loss from the corner tips. An eight-page preface by the author precedes twenty-five poems, including the five Sir John Piers poems which were originally issued in 1938 under his 'Epsilon' pseudonym. With a printed dedication to M[yfanwy] et J[ohn] Piper - the former featuring in the poems 'Myfanwy' and 'Myfanwy at Oxford'. Peterson A8a.. 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 : Old Lights for New Chancels. Verses Topographical and Amatory. (SIGNED). 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 antichi, fine bindings, rare books, antiquarian books and out of print books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |