HILLIER, Bevis YOUNG BETJEMAN , London: John Murray, 1988.

First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 0719545315 Book in very good condition, very slightly bumped at bottom spine edge, otherwise in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, slightly rubbed along top edge. xvii, 479pp, including Notes and Index. With 42 black-and-white photographs and 8 line drawings in the text. Betjeman' s life from his birth in 1906 to his marriage in 1933. He was a solitary child and an unconventional pupil at the Dragon School and Marlborough Collage. His holidays in Cornwall, the early passion for church architecture and his first attempt at verse-making. He Left Magdalen without a degree, was sacked as a private secretary to an Irish nobleman. He continued briefly and outrageously as a prep-schoolmaster, then found work closer to his heart on The Architectural Review. Amongst other it includes, Evelyn Waugh, Nancy Mitford, Hugh Gaitskell, Kenneth Clark and Anthony Blunt (Book ref. 6967)  £16.00

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