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Betjeman, John (edited By Candida Lycett Green) Letters - Volume Two: 1951 to 1984
London Methuen 1995 0413669408 / 9780413669407 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Near Fine
A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. xxiv + 616 pages. 68 photographs and Betjeman's drawings in his letters. Page marker bound in. John Betjeman (1906-1984), Poet Laureate and one of the best loved English poets was also one of the best loved Englishmen. This second volume covers his life from the age of 46 when his popularity as poet, broadcaster, and campaigner against the destruction of buildings was reaching its height. His correspondents ranged from old friends like John Piper, Osbert Lancaster, John Sparrow and Evelyn Waugh, writers such as Auberon Waugh, Philip Larkin and Kingsley Amis, and to his own family. His daughter, who has her own recollections of the last decades of her father's life, has created a loving portrait of the man, his friends and family, and above all, of his wife Penelope and his beloved friend Elizabeth Cavendish. **** NOT EX LIB **** **** A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.2 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST ****
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