THE ILLUSTRATED POEMS OF JOHN BETJEMAN
Written by John Betjeman
Illustrated by David Gentleman
Published by John Murray
in 1995
ISBN: 0719552486
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- WATERCOLOUR
THE ILLUSTRATED POEMS OF JOHN BETJEMAN
Written by John Betjeman.
Illustrated by David Gentleman.
Stock no. 1329225
1st.
1995.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Green boards, gilt title to spine. 143 numbered pages. Watercolours by Gentleman. ISBN: 0719552486. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Top edge of textblock is slightly dusty/foxed. Dustwrapper is price-cut and faded to spine.
Front cover
Contents
- LOVE:
- Pot Pourri From a Surrey Garden
- Myfanwy
- Myfanwy at Oxford
- In a Bath Teashop
- Senex
- A Subaltern's Love Song
- Invasion Exercise on the Poultry Farm
- The Irish Unionist's Farewell to Greta Hellstrom in 1922
- Indoor Games Near Newbury
- Narcissus
- From North Coast Recollections
- The Olympic Girl
- The Licorice Fields at Pontefract
- Slough
- A Russell Flint
- Agricultural Caress
- The Cockney Amorist
- Hearts Together
- Lenten Thoughts of a High Anglican
- CHURCH:
- Hymn
- In Westminster Abbey
- Church of England Thoughts
- Bristol
- A Lincolnshire Tale
- St Saviour's, Aberdeen Park,Highbury, London, N.
- A Lincolnshire Church
- PEOPLE:
- The 'Varsity Students' Rag
- The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel
- The Planster's Vision
- Youth and Age on Beaulieu River, Hants
- Sun and Fun
- Business Girls
- Hunter Trials
- How To Get On in Society
- False Security
- PLACES:
- Upper Lambourne
- Uffington
- Trebetherick
- On an Old Fashioned WaterColour of Oxford
- May Day Song for North Oxford
- The Metropolitan Railway
- Greenaway
- Lake District
- Monody on the Death of Aldersgate Street Station
- Hertfordshire
- N.W. 5 & N.6
- Tregardock
- In Willesden Churchyard
- DEATH:
- Death in Leamington
- A Shropshire Lad
- House of Rest
- Death of King George V
- Devonshire Street W.1
- Old Friends
- Monody on the Death of a Platonist Bank Clerk
- The Last Laugh