Paperback. Condition: New. 477pp. Numerous photos. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Published by John Murray, 1988
ISBN 10: 0719545315 ISBN 13: 9780719545313
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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Illus. With Photos (illustrator). The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, London, 1989
ISBN 10: 0747404674 ISBN 13: 9780747404675
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: USED_GOOD. The authorized life of the popular former Poet Laureate comprises two volumes. This first volume covers Betjeman's life up to the age of 26 and his marriage to Penelope Chetwode. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. Foxing to the pages.
Hardcover. Condition: USED_FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Hardcover book, jacket and book both fine; XVII, 478 pages with black-and-white illustrations. Book.
Published by John Murray Publishers Ltd 1988-07-21, US, 1988
ISBN 10: 0719545315 ISBN 13: 9780719545313
Seller: Monroe Street Books, Middlebury, VT, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illus. With Photos (illustrator). 479 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 463737.
Published by John Murray. 1988., 1988
Seller: Tacoma Book Center, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
First Edition
ISBN 0-7195-4531-5. Hardback. First Printing. Very Good condition book wit h dust soiling to top edge, in a Very Good condition dustjacket with cover rubs, minor rubs and creases around its edges. Tight, sound, unmarked copy .
Published by John Murray, London, 1988
ISBN 10: 0719545315 ISBN 13: 9780719545313
Seller: The Glass Key, Montmorillon, France
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Illus. With Photos (illustrator). First edition. 1st printing. Pp xvii + 479 with 28pp of monochrome half-tone illustrations. Blue cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. Inscription on the half-title and small stain on fore-edge else a clean, unmarked copy in a tight binding and unclipped dust jacket.
Published by London : J. Murray, 1988
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 479 pages; Physical description. : xvii, 479 p. : ill. , ports. ; 24 cm. Subject: Betjeman, John, 1906-1984 - Biography. Betjeman, John, 1906-1984 - Childhood and youth. Betjeman, John, Sir, 1906-1984. Betjeman, John, 1906-1984 - Studies. Betjeman, John, Sir, 1906- - Childhood and youth. Authors, English - 20th century - Biography. 1 Kg.
Published by London : J. Murray, 1988
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
First Edition
First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 479 pages; Physical description. : xvii, 479 p. : ill. , ports. ; 24 cm. Subject: Betjeman, John, 1906-1984 - Biography. Betjeman, John, 1906-1984 - Childhood and youth. Betjeman, John, Sir, 1906-1984. Betjeman, John, 1906-1984 - Studies. Betjeman, John, Sir, 1906- - Childhood and youth. Authors, English - 20th century - Biography. 1 Kg.
Published by John Murray, London, 1988
Seller: St Marys Books And Prints, Stamford, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hard Back Dust Cover. 1st. A photographic dust jacket in good condition, spine sunned.nbsp; Contents clean and bright. Binding tight. Overall good copy. pp. 479. book.
Published by London : J. Murray, 1988
ISBN 10: 0719545315 ISBN 13: 9780719545313
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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Illus. With Photos (illustrator). First Edition. SIGNED by the author. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 479 pages; Physical description: xvii, 479 p. : ill. , ports. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Betjeman, John, 1906-1984 - Biography. Poets, English - 20th century - Biography - English literature. 1 Kg.
Published by London: John Murray, 1988
Seller: BookLovers of Bath, Peasedown St. John, BATH, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardback in Dust Wrapper. First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (blue boards with gilt titling to the spine) Physically 9½" x 6¼" (1.4 kg); (xvii) 479pp; Index; Cover art by Craig Dodd; Includes: Black & white photographs on individual leaves; ISBN: 0-7195-4531-5 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #197151|| Condition: Very Good in Very Good Dust Wrapper.
Published by John Murray, London, 1988
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue paper over boards, dust jacket. xvii, 479pp. Illustrations. Near fine/near fine. Tight, attractive first edition.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) of the first volume of Hillier's three-volume Betjeman biography. This copy from the library Betjeman scholar and bibliographer Peter Gammond with his neat ink stamp to the head of the front free endpaper. 8vo. xvii, 479pp. Blue boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with forty-two photographs, line-drawings and reproductions. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly creased at the upper edge.
Published by London : J. Murray, 1988
ISBN 10: 0719545315 ISBN 13: 9780719545313
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
First Edition Signed
Illus. With Photos (illustrator). First Edition. SIGNED by the author. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 479 pages; Physical description: xvii, 479 p. : ill. , ports. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Betjeman, John, 1906-1984 - Biography. Poets, English - 20th century - Biography - English literature. 1 Kg.
Published by John Murray, (London), 1988
ISBN 10: 0719545315 ISBN 13: 9780719545313
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper.
Published by John Murray, 1988
ISBN 10: 0719545315 ISBN 13: 9780719545313
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: USED_GOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Illus. With Photos (illustrator). First Edition. Signed by Author on title page. Dust wrapper with creasing, edge & corner wear, tear to top front corner, creasing to back cover - due to the way publishers film being applied, scratch to front cover. Price label on inside cover. Internally Good - clean and tidy copy in tight binding. A Good personal copy. Price clipped dust wrapper has now been fitted with removable archive acetate film. **1074g** All orders are sent with a tracking /signature service for your peace of mind, so that you can keep tabs on your parcel. For overseas customers - on some sites we use, parcels weighing over the standard rate may incur an additional charge and we will then contact you with the additional shipping fee required. This is for the postage only we do not charge you for our time or our excellent packaging, which we are noted for. Dispatched in cardboard mailers within 24/48 Hours Mon - Friday 2pm, except bank holidays, otherwise next business day - excellent service guaranteed. ; Signed by Author.
Published by John Murray, London, 1988
ISBN 10: 0719545315 ISBN 13: 9780719545313
First Edition
Hardback. First Edition. Hardback, 479 pp. First edition. Biography of the early life of the late poet laureate, architectural writer and champion of the Victorian age. Over 40 photographs and a number of line drawings. Light shelf wear to lower edge else very clean and neat. Very good copy in like dust jacket Very good copy in like dust jacket.
Published by John Murray, 1988
ISBN 10: 0719541816 ISBN 13: 9780719541810
Seller: Novel Finds, Church Stretton, United Kingdom
First Edition
Pictorial Cover. Condition: USED_FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Excellent condition - as new. A life in pictures of John Betjeman. Contents: Origins, Highgate, The Dragon School, Cornwall, Marlborough, Oxford, Prep School Master, With the Bright Young People, Marriage, Uffington, Wartime Ireland and London, Farnborough, Wantage, Cloth Fair and Radnor Walk. Pictures on every page!! 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by John Murray, [1988], 1988
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
First Edition
8vo., First Edition, with 42 plates on 28; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First volume of Hillier's projected three-volume life of Betjeman, a project entrusted to him by the poet himself and likely to become of the most entertaining biographies of its time. Covers the years 1906-1933. Peterson O98.
Published by John Murray Publishers Ltd, UK, 1988
ISBN 10: 0719545315 ISBN 13: 9780719545313
Seller: powellbooks Somerset UK., Ilminster, SOM, United Kingdom
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First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illus. With Photos (illustrator). 1st Edition. John Betjeman became a national monument to equal any of those he described so delightfully. The most popular poet since Tennyson, knighted, Poet Laureate, commemorated in Westminster Abbey. When others were swept along by the jazz age, why was he drawn back to the Victorians? How , in Philip Larkin's phrase did he' become Betjeman'? There is light tanning to the text block edge and the d/w has some edge creasing and wear to the corners.
Published by John Murray, London, 1988
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st UK Edition. 479 pages in near fine condition. Pages are clean and unmarked with black and white illustrations throughout. Blue endpapers. Bound in blue hardcovers with gilt titles on the spine. Lightly worn around the edges. Dark blue dustjacket, lightly worn around the edges. 1ST UK EDITION. NPC. NF/VG. Book.
Copertina rigida. Condition: ottime. Prima edizione. Prima edizione. Testo inglese. Cm.23,4x15,2. Pg.XVIII, 480. Legatura in tela con sovracoperta policroma. Allegate alcune fotocopie di giornali con recensioni dell'opera. Dedica autografa dell'autore a John Fleming e Hugh Honour, citati nel volume. In merito al poeta inglese John Betjeman (Highgate, 28 agosto 1906 ? Trebetherick, 19 maggio 1984). 1000 gr.
London, John Murray, 1988. 8vo. Original dark blue cloth with accompanying dust jacket; pp. 480; near fine, not price-clipped, inscribed by the author to title page "The first volume of my authorized biography of John Betjeman, Poet Laureate - and a friend. May 5 - 2016". First Edition, inscribed by the author. The first half of Bevis Hillier's critically acclaimed biography of the famous poet, running from 1906 to 1933.
Published by John Murray, London 2002-04., 2002
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hillier's mammoth three-volume biography of John Betjeman. The first volume a re-issue, the other two first editions (first printings). 8vo. 477pp, 736pp & 745pp. Original publisher's boards. Illustrated with photographs, line drawings and reproductions. The first two volumes inscribed by the author to Betjeman scholar and bibliography Peter [Gammond] and his wife, and with two greetings cards also laid-in. The third volume includes a letter from the publisher presenting it to Gammond with Hillier's thanks, plus also a lengthy two-page handwritten letter from the author thanking Gammond for his generous review and clarifying one or two points. All three volumes in fine state with virtually fine dust wrappers. Inscribed by Author(s).
Hardcover. Condition: USED_VERYGOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition - the dedication copy, inscribed by the author "To Oliver, one of the dedicatees, with much love from his uncle, the author, Bevis. Redhill, July 1988". 8vo. 479pp. Blue boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with over forty captioned photographs. A very good copy in dust wrapper. The first volume of Hillier's mammoth three-decker biography of Betjeman, the research and writing of which occupied twenty-five years. (Oliver is the youngest child of Hillier's sister, Mary Thompson). Peterson O98. Inscribed by Author(s).
Published by London: John Murray., 1988
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
First editions, first printings of Hillier's three-volume biography with the addition of an inscribed copy of Betjeman's Uncollected Poems. From the library of the Philip Larkin scholar and biographer, James Booth, former Professor of English at the University of Hull, with his penetrating, acerbic pencil annotations throughout. Original blue and red cloth lettered in gilt to spines, in the illustrated dustwrappers. A near fine set, the bindings square and firm. In the near fine dustwrappers showing just a touch of shelf wear. The third volume with a previous owner's bookplate affixed to the front pastedown. Not price-clipped, each volume individually priced to its front flap. An entertainingly annotated set of Hillier's great Betjeman biography. A complete set of Bevis Hillier's three-volume authorised biography of John Betjeman (1988-2004) from the library of Professor James Booth, former Professor at the University of Hull and editor and biographer of Philip Larkin; together with a copy of Betjeman's 'Uncollected Poems', edited by Hillier in 1982 (a 1992 reprint) inscribed "To James [Booth], with best / wishes & admiration / from Bevis 21. ix. 16". Hillier's inscription is followed by a short pencilled note by Booth: "My talk at the Betj. Soc / St James the Less, / Pimlico", and it was clearly in preparation for this talk that Booth read and annotated these copies of Hillier's biography (the first two volumes with Booth's pencilled ownership name and dates from early 2016). The extensive marginal annotations, written neatly in pencil throughout are, except for the occasional expression of approval ("OK"), frank, argumentative and entertainingly acerbic. Responding to Hillier's claim in the the preface to Vol. I. that what he has written is not a 'critical biography' ("a bastard art-form, one which yokes two disciplines that do not belong together") Booth writes in the margin: "cop-out the poetry is what matters", while Hillier's dismissal of two earlier Betjeman biographies on the following page ("Neither [.] weighs more than an avocado pear") is succinctly dismissed by Booth: "patronising git!". Above a long paragraph detailing some of Betjeman's exalted social connections, Booth notes "I've lost track of all these toffs", while a quote from Rupert Lycett Green in Vol. III where he claims to have opened 'Blades', the London tailors, "because I couldn't buy a decent suit anywhere in London" is glossed: "I hate this world". Although Booth responds to Hillier's account of his twenty-eight year immersion in Betjeman's life leaving him "feel[ing] equipped to attempt a summing up of the poet and the man" with a marginal "pompous tit" and frequently complains of the longuers of the biography ("I finished this so it isn't quite interminable. Now for Vol III?" on the title page of Vol. II), his engaged, deeply informed, often funny (and rude) dialogue with Hillier's text is its own tribute to this monumental work, clearly a labour of love, that John Carey, in his glowing Sunday Times review of the final volume, described as an "enthralling, many-voiced biography, [.] an awesome achievement [that is] no more than Betjeman's due." Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Published by John Murray, [1988-2004], 1988
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
First Edition
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with 14 coloured plates on 8, 138 monochrome plates on 68 and several illustrations (one double-page) in the text; cloth (blue/red/blue respectively), gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. Bright set of the official biography of the much-loved Laureate, a project entrusted to Hillier by the poet himself and likely to become of the most entertaining biographies of its time. The set comprises: Vol I: Young Betjeman [1988] covers the years 1906-1933; Vol. II: John Betjeman. New Fame, New Love [2002] covers the years 1932-1958; Vol. III: Betjeman. The Bonus of Laughter [2004] covers the years 1958-1984. SCARCE AS A SET IN THIS CONDITION. Peterson O98, O141, O145 respectively.