Summoned By Bells

London: John Murray , 1960. 1st Edition . Very Good Plus/Very Good. 6.75 x 9 inches (17 x 23 cm). Dust jacket: Spine lightly browned and has slight wear to ends. Small light stain to front cover. Unclipped. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Very Good. Book: Green blind stamped cloth binding. Light browning… Saber más sobre este artículo

John Murray. London. 1960. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo. (9.1 x 6.8 inches). Illustrated with line drawings by Michael Tree. Finely bound in recent full dark green morocco. Five raised bands on spine. Compartments with ruled and dot lines and decorated with gilt bell and floral devices. Red title label, dotted and lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. Original decorative… Saber más sobre este artículo

John Murray. London. 1960. PROOF COPY. Illustrated with drawings by Michael Tree. Publishers green proof stiff card wrapper. Decorative endpapers bound in. A couple of page corners creased and the green wraps rubbed to the edges but overall a very good example.

London: John Murray. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. A fine book with only a few spots of foxing on top edge. A very good DJ, some light browning to spine some chipping with small section missing from top of spine. Clipped DJ. Original purchase invoice dated 5/6/92 from The Chaucer Bookshop laid… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: John Murray, 1960. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. First UK Edition. Publisher's green boards with gilt lettering to the spine and blind-stamped with bells to the front board. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR Patterned end-papers. A near fine copy with boards/ spine/ corners all well preserved without any bumping. Top… Saber más sobre este artículo

John Murray. London. 1960. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo. A bright and clean copy in publishers green cloth binding with blind stamped Bells design to both boards. Spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Bell design endpapers. A fine copy of the book in the original, red and black printed on buff paper, dustwrapper which shows a little toning to the spine… Saber más sobre este artículo

A near perfect copy of the chatty poems about his school days that made Betjeman famous and eventually Poet Laureate. His candor about the dark side of a private school education, along with the joys of intellectual awakening, make a uniquely honest record of a class-conscious society. Hardcover with excellent, clipped jacket. Book is fine, with small owner dedication.

John Murray, 1960 (1st.).. Hardback, approx 9 x 6.5 inches. Green cloth with blind-stamped design of "bells" to boards, gilt lettering on spine. Pictorial endpapers with "Bells" motif. In dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrap (DW spine darkened, top edge rubbed with a couple of minor tears, price clipped.) Else a very clean and tight copy.… Saber más sobre este artículo

John Murray,. Hardback. First Edition. 112pp. Poetic childhood memoir. Repeated bell motif to endpapers. Illustrated title page, Green cloth with gilt titles to spine is very clean but slightly faded to very edges and slightly bumped to points. Few scattered spots of foxing to prelims. Text is otherwise clean. Dust jacket is tanned with some surface… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: John Murray 1960. 4to.Limited Edition. xiii, 111 pp. Signed de luxe, limited Edition. Gilt decorated, green calf binding, with a bell motif to the boards and top edge gilt. Some rubbing to the spine ends and corners. Binding firm and internally fresh. Illustrations throughout by Michael Tree. No. 125 of a limited run of 125 de luxe first editions… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: John Murray, 1960 . First edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 9.5" by 7". Michael Tree. The first edition of John Betjeman's blank verse autobiography in the original dust wrapper. First edition of Summoned By Bells by John Betjeman, in the original publisher's cloth binding and clipped dust wrapper. A blank verse autobiography which described Betjeman's early memories of his… Saber más sobre este artículo

London, John Murray, 1960. . First edition, first impression, trade issue, inscribed by the author; large 8vo; trivial spotting, otherwise unmarked internally; publisher's green cloth, boards decorated in blind, title to spine gilt, pictorial endpapers, tape stain to front free endpaper, spine very rolled; a bright, sharp copy in the price-clipped dust jacket, with a minor piece of internal… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: John Murray 1960. 8vo.Illustrated. viii, 111 pp., First edition. Blind stamped green cloth binding with dustjacket. Jacket bright with chipping to the head and loss to the rear. Boards fresh with gilt lettered spine. Binding firm and internally clean. Gift inscription to the illustrated endpapers. Illustrated in black and white. . Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 1960.

London: John Murray , 1960. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 9" by 6.5". Michael Tree . First trade edition of John Betjeman's celebrated autobiographical poetry collection, adorned with drawings by Michael Tree. First trade edition of this work, published with a limited edition autographed by the author. A touching autobiographical collection of poetry by Poet Laureate John… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: John Murray, 1960. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed. 9" by 6.5". Michael Tree. The first edition of John Betjeman's autobiographical poetry collection, illustrated with beautiful engravings by Michael Tree. The first edition of this work.In the original unclipped dustwrapper.A collection of personal and intimate blank verse poems by the noted Poet Laureate John Betjeman, a… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: John Murray. Near Fine in Poor dust jacket. 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. 111 pp.; 8vo; green cloth, spine lettered in gilt; covers with decorative bell motif in blind; endpapers also decorated with bells. Bookplate in Greek letters of Sir Michael and Lady Stewart on the verso of free endpaper, causing some offset to half-title; a few… Saber más sobre este artículo

London, UK: John Murray, 1960. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition. 112pp. Green cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on spine; decorative endpapers. 8vo. Sun-faded spine ends, lightly rubbed. Top text block edge dusty, remaining edges starting to tan and fox. Endpapers starting to fox and tan. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight; barring… Saber más sobre este artículo

Boston; Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company; The Riverside Press, 1960. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Very Good Indeed. 9" by 6". None. A first American edition of John Betjeman's autobiography, naturally written in verse. Complete with an unclipped pictorial dust wrapper. The autobiographical poetry of Sir John Betjeman, written in blank verse and detailing his early life until his… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: John Murray, 1960. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blind-embossed green cloth with gilt spine lettering. 111pp. Headpieces; decorative endpapers. Near fine. Lacks dust jacket. Tight, bright first edition of the British poet laureate's biography of his early years in free verse.

London: John Murray 1976. Large 8vo.Limited Edition. Signed Limited Edition. xiv, 115 pp. A full blue leather binding in a marbled slip case, both bearing a gilt bell to their front boards. Gilt lettering, borders and turn-ins. Marbled endpapers and all edges gilt. Drawings throughout by Michael Tree. Fading to the spine, some light markings to leather and pages. Otherwise… Saber más sobre este artículo