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Ghastly Good Taste; or a Depressing Story of the Rise and Fall of English Architecture. (SIGNED LIMITED EDITION)

Ghastly Good Taste; or a Depressing Story of the Rise and Fall of English Architecture. (SIGNED LIMITED EDITION)

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Ghastly Good Taste; or a Depressing Story of the Rise and Fall of English Architecture. (SIGNED LIMITED EDITION)

by JOHN BETJEMAN

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Anthony Blond, London, 1970. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 2nd Edition. The deluxe issue of the expanded second edition, designed by Sebastian Carter and limited to 200 numbered copies, signed by the author (this being #75). 4to. xxviii, 112pp. Quarter leather with cloth-covered sides, gilt lettered at the spine. A tiny hint of chafing to the backstrip leather, else a fine copy. No dust wrapper called for, but housed in the original cloth-covered slipcase. Laid-in is a printed card from Betjeman on his Cloth Fair letterhead, acknowledging well wishers upon being named Poet Laureate ( ". I am sure you will forgive this short note of thanks, but I am inundated with letters and I do so want to reply to them all . "). Betjeman's second book, 'Ghastly Good Taste' was first published in 1933. This expanded edition includes 'An Aesthete's Apologia', a new sixteen page introduction by the author, and Peter Fleetwood-Hesketh's splendid folding illustration is here enlarged from forty inches to a scarcely credible nine feet..

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Clearwater Books GB (GB)
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Title
Ghastly Good Taste; or a Depressing Story of the Rise and Fall of English Architecture. (SIGNED LIMITED EDITION)
Author
JOHN BETJEMAN
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Near Fine
Edition
2nd Edition
Publisher
Anthony Blond, London
Date Published
1970

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