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London: Oxford University Press.. The book has uncut pages and the dw has got a few tears and nibbels and is foxed. . Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1952.

UK: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 2002. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This book is the centrepiece of Bevis Hillier's sparkling trilogy, one of the most entertaining of biographies . Betjeman's loves and longings are described, as well as the beginning of his close and enduring friendship with Lady Elizabeth Cavendish. The d/w has rippling to the top edge front and back and light wear to the top front corner. A good, clean and tight copy..

UK: John Murray Publishers, 1974. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Byron's life was cut short at thirty-six, but he had lived it so fully and among such varied scenes that a wealth of biographical material has come down to prosperity. The author is one of the few people who has sorted through these papers to find the man behind the myth. There is a gift dedication on the fep. The black boards has bumps to the top corners, the d/j does show light shelf wear to its edges. A good , clean copy..

UK: Hutchinson, 2013. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Dora Wordsworth and Sara Coleridge were lifelong friends. They were also the daughters of best friends: William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the two poetic geniuses who shaped the romantic age. Drawing on a host of sources the author tells the never-before-told story of how two young women, born into greatness, shaped their own legacies. A good, clean and tight copy..

UK: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 1988. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 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..