Ghastly Good Taste. Or, a depressing story of the rise and fall of English architecture.




Book Description
Small 8vo. First edition, first issue. Original quarter blue cloth, with printed paper label to spine and pink printed paper boards. Errata slip tipped-in at page 1. Spare paper label for the spine tipped-in at the back. Spine darkened. Covers faded, rubbed and little marked. Author’s ink inscription on the flyleaf. Scattered light foxing throughout. The folding illustration by Peter Fleetwood-Hesketh has (sadly) been removed. Good.
Dealer Notes
A copy of the first issue with “Mowbray” included in the third stanza of the poem on p. 119, this book has suffered a bit, not least from the removal of the forty inch long illustration. Perhaps the inscription helps? ‘Miss Chambers _ paid me this tribute _ John Betjeman 31.8.33’
Author
Betjeman, John
Date
1933
Publisher
London, Chapman & Hall, Ltd
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