Ghastly Good Taste or, a Depressing Story of the Rise and Fall of English Architecture.

Betjeman (John)

Ghastly Good Taste or, a Depressing Story of the Rise and Fall of English Architecture.

Description: FIRST EDITION, first issue with pp. 119-20 uncancelled, the multiple folding-plate by Peter Fleetwood-Hesketh, present and in good order, errata-slip tipped in, pp. xi, 139, foolscap 8vo, original quarter blue cloth with pink boards, backstrip with printed label a little browned and nicked, spare label tipped in at rear, small and faint waterstain at head of lower board, knock to leading edge of both boards, very good

Publication Details: Chapman & Hall, 1933

Notes: Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: 'Albert Edward Doyle, with love from the clever author, Sept. 14. 1933'. The inscription includes a sketch, presumably of the recipient - whose correspondence with Betjeman is held at the University of Victoria.