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