Victorian and Edwardian Brighton from Old Photographs de Betjeman, John & Gray, J. P.S - 1972

London: Batsford, 1987. hardcover. very good(+)/very good. 154 black-and-white photographs. tall 8vo, black cloth, d.w.; dust wrapper price clipped. London: B. T. Batsford, (1987). A very good(+) copy in a very good dust wrapper.<br/><br/>

(London: B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1972). Small 4to; original oatmeal boards; price-clipped laminated pictorial dustwrapper; unpaginated; 154 period photographs. Dustwrapper very slightly worn at head of spine panel; light foxing to endpapers and reverse of dustwrapper. Very good condition. "The earliest photographs in this book show Market Street and Duke Street as they were about 120 years ago. The latest, taken some 70 years later, records a portent: a solid-tired mail van in collision with a lamp standard in 1909. Between these dates the pictures reflect with uncanny verisimilitude the changing life of Brighton at a period when, by present-day standards, change seems imperceptible. ... Besides Brighton itself, it should be emphasised, the book includes Hove, Shoreham, Portslade, Roedean, Lewes, and Rottingdean. The photographs have been selected principally from the collection, consisting of several thousand items, of Mr J. S. Gray (who has also contributed the information for the picture… Leer más

B. T. Batsford. Used - Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. 3rd printing. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

B T Batsford Limited, London, 1983, 4th impression,. /Dust Jacket Included. 1983. Hardcover. 0713401192 hardback, 4to, 128pp, illustrated, clean and sound, no inscriptions, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper. (price-clipped.). ISBN: 0713401192 .

Batsford, 1972. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. A book in very good condition, newspaper clipping inserted loosely has caused some foxing to front endpaper; unclipped wrapper has some mild shelfwear and a faded spine..

London: B. T. Batsford, 1972. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. A touch faded at the spine of the dust wrapper with the price clipped. The contents complete, clean and tight. . First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (pale red boards with gilt titling to the spine) Physically 10” x 7½” (1.2 kg); 0pp; Includes: Black & white photographs (within the text); Frontispiece; ISBN: 0-7134-0119-2 || 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 #195232|| Condition:

Batsford Ltd, 1972-04-01. Hardcover. Good.

London: B. T. Batsford. 1972. First edition. First edition. Inscribed presentation copy, with additional material. Publisher's original textured cream and brown cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated in black and white throughout. A better than very good copy, the binding square and firm with a few small bumps at the spine tips, the contents clean throughout. Complete with the very lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper. Not price-clipped. Inscribed by John Betjeman in pencil on the front endpaper "Mary / with love from / John B / + hopes for many many / conferences. 1972". The recipient is the accomplished poet Mary Wilson who also happened to be married to the twice Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Mary met Betjeman after she contrived to sit beside the poet laureate at an official dinner, thereafter the two would meet regularly, at Betjeman's house or at Number 10, sometimes in St James's Park, to read and recite poetry to each other. Betjeman… Leer más