OLD LIGHTS FOR NEW CHANCELS. Verses Topographical and Amatory.
by BETJEMAN, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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YORK, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: John Murray, 1940. . First edition, 12mo., pp.xix,67,(1), blue cloth, printed paper label to spine; a fine copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, with light toning and minimal chipping to edges. With a card written by Betjeman for Eric Mascall (Poet and Theologian), which reads: “Eric with high greetings from his admiring fellow rhymer, John Betjeman” loosely inserted.
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Details
- Bookseller
- MINSTER GATE BOOKSHOP (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20833
- Title
- OLD LIGHTS FOR NEW CHANCELS. Verses Topographical and Amatory.
- Author
- BETJEMAN, John
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: John Murray, 1940.
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MINSTER GATE BOOKSHOP
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YORK, North Yorkshire
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Chipping
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