BETJEMAN, John; Michael Tree (illus.)

Summoned by Bells

London: John Murray, 1960. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm); green cloth, embossed with bell pattern, stamped in gilt, in tan dustwrapper; patterned endpapers; 111pp. Dustwrapper soiled and smudged; minor chips to extremities with creasing and edge rolling. Interiors slightly toned along margins, else clean and sound. Very Good or Better, in Very Good dustwrapper.

An autobiography in blank verse by bestselling English poet John Betjeman, who lays out a detailed character sketch of an Edwardian childhood in Highgate and Cornwall, and of his school days at Oxford. With b/w text-illustrations throughout by Michael Tree.

Price: $35.00

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