Summoned by Bells
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1960.
Price: $350.00
Softcover. Uncorrected proof of the first American edition. Spiral bound in tall green wrappers. Printed rectos only. A little evidence of aging, and a small tear on the front wrap, still near fine. Publisher's publicity laid in. An autobiography in verse. A very uncommon format.
Item #100176
John Betjeman
birth name: John Betjemann
born: 8/28/1906
died: 5/19/1984
Biography
British poet known for his nostalgia for the near past, his exact sense of place, and his precise rendering of social nuance, which made him widely read at a time when much of what he wrote about was vanishing. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore