Continual dew : a little book of bourgeois verse / by John Betjeman
1977, Facsimile Edition. London : John Murray. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #426797
ISBN: 0719533953
Physical description; 5 preliminary leaves, 45 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves : illustrations ; 22 cm. Notes; Bound in black cloth over boards; stamped and decorated in gold on front cover and spine; all edges gilt; pale blue pages. Title vignette. Four unnumbered leaves on thin paper inserted between pages 18 and 19. Dust jacket signed: E. McKnight Kauffer. Bound in black cloth over boards; stamped and decorated in gold on front cover and spine; all edges gilt; pale blue pages. "First edition, 1937." Contents; The arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel -- Distant view of a provincial town -- Slough -- Public house drunk -- Suicide on Juntion Road Station after abstention from evening communion in north London -- When the great bell booms -- Clash went the billiard balls -- Love in a valley -- An impoverished Irish peer -- Our padre -- exchange of livings -- Undenominational -- Tea with the poets -- A hike on the downs -- The Wykehamist at home -- The Wykehamist -- Dorset -- Calvinistic evensong -- Exeter -- Death in Leamington -- Hymn -- An eighteenth-century Calvinistic hymn -- For nineteenth-century burials -- The Sandemanian meeting-house in Highbury Quadrant -- Competition -- Tunbridge Wells -- Camberley -- The outer suburbs -- The flight from Bootle -- Croydon -- The garden city -- Westgate-on-sea -- Daily express. Subjects; Calvinism ; Poetry. Sandemanianism ; Poetry. Boroughs ; Poetry. Middle class ; Poetry. English poetry.
Price: €12.95