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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, light chipping around edges. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: previous owner. Binding: Intact. A celebrated verse autobiography, Summoned by Bells stands as one of John...

This verse autobiography relates the story of the author's younger days set against the places and buildings that were significant in his youth - Highgate, Cornwall, Chelsea, Marlborough, Oxford quads,...

Author: Candida Lycett GreenBinding: HardbackPublished: The Folio Society, 1999Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: WornPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Small nick/tear on slipcase. This captivating non-fiction work, "Betjeman's Britain," presents a nostalgic...

Author: John BetjemanBinding: HardbackPublished: Collins, 1968Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: General wear, fraying and browning on external dust cover and some pages inside; pages in good...

Author: John Betjeman And A.L. RowseBinding: HardbackPublished: London; Batsford;, 1974Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsVictorian And Edwardian Cornwall From Old Photographs presents a captivating...

Essex, one the largest counties of England, stretches from the suburban fringes of East London to the fishing and sailing ports of Harwich and Maldon and the famous seaside resorts...

Author: John Betjeman, John PiperBinding: HardbackPublished: John Murray, 1948Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerThis architectural and historical guide chronicles the rich heritage...

An award-winning study of England's unique and peculiarly insular variant of modernism. While the battles for modern art and society were being fought in France and Spain, it has seemed...

Author: John Betjeman, John PiperBinding: HardbackPublished: John Murray, 1949Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsMurray's Berkshire: Architectural Guide presents a comprehensive...

Author: Alexandra HarrisFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 450g, 416 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2023An award-winning study of England's unique and peculiarly insular variant of modernism. While the...

Author: Alexandra HarrisFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 450g, 416 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2023An award-winning study of England's unique and peculiarly insular variant of modernism. While the...

A wonderful collection of popular 20th century poetry This lovely book of poetry brings together over 100 of the most celebrated and cherished poems of the 20th century. Including poets...

An illustrated anthology of poetry celebrating life in England's capital. 'Earth hath not anything to show more fair' said Wordsworth of London in 1802. Hundreds of years on, the same...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew figures in twentieth-century Oxford cut as distinctive a silhouette as Sir Cecil Maurice Bowra — classicist, wit, Warden of...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears — the dust jacket shows general toning and age-related yellowing consistent with a mid-20th century publication, with some light creasing but no...

Sir Ninian Comper (1864-1960) was one of the last of the great Gothic Revival architects, his work concentrating on churches and their contents. He is well-known for his stained glass,...

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These letters throw light on a more complex figure than most readers will probably be expecting. Whether addressing his literary friends, who included Barbara Pym, Kinglsey Amis and John Betjeman,...

Born into the vastness of Pixton Park in Somerset, Auberon Waugh was drawn early into class warfare; he pretended he had seen evacuees and children of servants eat rat poison...

John Sutherland has picked out over 100 biographies from the "Dictionary of National Biography" to create this lively anthology of a selection of the most prominent figures in British 20th-century...

Sir Hugh Casson was President of the Royal Academy 1976-1984 and is author of "London" and illustrator of Sir John Betjeman's "Summoned by Bells".

This selection of travel writing from "The Spectator" covers diversity of experience and is arranged in geographical sections (Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Africa, Middle East, Far East and Australia, North...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew political memoirs have shaken Washington to its foundations quite like Blind Ambition, the searing firsthand account by...

What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first hand? Travis Elborough's compilation offers brilliantly candid and intimate...

Author: Travis Elborough Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first...

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At the age of thirty-one, John Nash, mathematical genius, suffered a devastating breakdown and was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Yet after decades of leading a ghost-like existence, he was to re-emerge...

From Barnet to Richmond, explore the history of London's Metro-Land A Guide to Modernism in Metro-Land is your essential pocket guide to the modernist architecture of London's suburbs. Inspired by...

In Poems to Fall in Love With Chris Riddell has selected and illustrated his very favourite classic and modern poems about love. This gorgeously illustrated collection celebrates love in all...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew artists capture the raw, elemental tension between humanity and the natural world with the visceral intensity of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew figures in English literary history loom as large or as vividly as Samuel Johnson — and John Wain's acclaimed biography captures the full measure...

The Great Wall of China - stretching from the arid rises of Gansu province to the cold waters of the Bohai Sea - remains an enduring symbol of Chinese might....

Condition remarks:Book: ExcellentJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat if the Luftwaffe of World War II had taken a radically different path — deploying aircraft that...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodOne of the most provocative figures of the twentieth century, Roy Lichtenstein transformed the disposable imagery of comic strips and...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew figures in Australian political history command the enduring reverence of Edward Gough Whitlam, and this handsome tribute volume stands as a testament to...

Condition remarks:Book: ExcellentJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat if the Luftwaffe had gone to war with an entirely different arsenal of aircraft — machines that...

Inviting, perfect in proportion, exquisite in detail - such are a few of the ways to describe homes designed by John Simpson. Well known for his work with the British...

' Humble and very funny ' - Ned Boulting ' Essential reading for any Etape rider ' - Daniel Friebe, co-host of The Cyclist Podcast An Everyman dropped into the...