Buy this book on-line HILLIER, BEVIS: : JOHN BETJEMAN: A LIFE IN PICTURES - Compiled and Introduced By Bevis HillierLONDON.JOHN MURRAY/in Association with The Herbert Press,1984. ISBN 0719541816.
UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE+/FINE. No owner inscrptn,but price-clipped dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated, monochrome subject's portrait with his facsimile signature (in blue letters) to photographic illustrated upper panel, subject photographic rear panel too,with b/w lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Spine/backstrip of dw/dj lightly sunned/faded and with both head+foot of same minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing,corners minimally creased too.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly unread? Bright,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,dark olive green cloth bds with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters and subject's gilt facsimile signature to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn,6-160pp [paginated] includes preface,14 chapters,a profuse mixture of contemporary b/w (the majority) and colour illus,photographs etc throughout the text and the book,and acknowledgements for same at rear.Plus [unpaginated] subject's colour portrait frntis painting,title page with subject's fasimile signature and contents list/table.
This tribute to Sir John Betjeman is an album of some 400 photographs,caricatures, and Betjeman's own drawings,covering every aspect of his life,together with an introduction and commentary.It has been compiled over a period of years while Bevis Hillier researched the fuller,authorized biography on which he is engaged.Most of the pictures in the book have never been reproduced before.
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