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BETJEMAN, John (Sir John), 1906-1984 : CONTINUAL DEW : A LITTLE BOOK OF BOURGEOIS VERSE. London : John Murray, (1937). First edition. An early collection of thirty-three poems – including “Slough”, “Exeter”, “Tea with the Poets”, “Croydon”, and “Tunbridge Wells”. £200 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45435 – or simply click on the button
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BETJEMAN, John (Sir John), 1906-1984 : NEW BATS IN OLD BELFRIES : POEMS. London : John Murray, 1945. First edition. An early collection of twenty-four poems, including “Henley-on-Thames”, “Parliament Hill Fields”, “South London Sketch, 1944”, “May-Day Song for North Oxford”, “In a Bath Teashop”, etc. £125 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45434 – or simply click on the button
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BETJEMAN, John (Sir John), 1906-1984 : NEW BATS IN OLD BELFRIES : POEMS.
London : John Murray, 1945. First edition. An early collection of twenty-four poems, including “Henley-on-Thames”, “Parliament Hill Fields”, “South London Sketch, 1944”, “May-Day Song for North Oxford”, “In a Bath Teashop”, etc. £125 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 39919 – or simply click on the button
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BETJEMAN, John (Sir John), 1906-1984 : FIRST AND LAST LOVES. London : John Murray, (1952). First edition. Betjeman on Aberdeen, Bournemouth, Cheltenham, Leeds, London Railway Stations, the Isle of Man, Padstow, Sidmouth, Weymouth, the Isle of Wight, and many other places, as well as on Nonconformist Architecture, Victorian Architecture. Numerous illustrations – many by John Piper. £125 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44144 – or simply click on the button
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BETJEMAN, John (Sir John), 1906-1984 – editor : COLLINS GUIDE TO ENGLISH PARISH CHURCHES : INCLUDING THE ISLE OF MAN. London : Collins, 1958. First edition. A county-by-county guide to the best of the parish churches, judged not only for their architecture, but for atmosphere and aesthetic merit. Betjeman contributes a lengthy historical introduction and many of the introductions to the individual counties, as well as writing or co-authoring the sections on Berkshire, Cornwall, the Isle of Man, London, Oxfordshire and Sussex. With a glossary of architectural terms, an index of architects and artists, etc. SOLD |
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BETJEMAN, John (Sir John), 1906-1984 : HIGH AND LOW. London : John Murray, (1966). First edition : one of 100 special numbered copies on handmade paper, bound in white buckram, and signed by Betjeman. A collection of thirty-four new poems, with a verse preface, including “Cornish Cliffs”, “Monody on the Death of a Platonist Bank Clerk”, “The Cockney Amorist”, “Cricket Master”, etc. £400 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44765 – or simply click on the button
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BETJEMAN, John (Sir John), 1906-1984 : A NIP IN THE AIR. London : John Murray, (1974). First edition. Twenty-seven poems from the period 1967-1974, including “The Costa Blanca”, “A Wembley Lad”, “A Mind’s Journey to Diss”, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 38548 – or simply click on the button
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