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Sir John Piers.
by JOHN BETJEMAN (writing as 'Epsilon')
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Mullinger, The Westmeath Examiner [1938]. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition - limited to 50 copies. 8vo. Ten pages stapled into card wrappers, lightly sunned at edges, with the front wrapper serving as title page. With three pencilled corrections in the author's hand. Illustrated with two fairly poorly reproduced photographs of Tristernagh Abbey, and with the author's initialled complements slip laid-in (this last from the 1970s, to judge from the handwriting). Some superficial creasing, and a tiny touch of spotting to several blank leaves. A very good copy of an extremely scarce pseudonymous publication, one of the most fugitive Betjeman items. A spoof biographical study in verse of Sir John Piers, a notorious bankrupt who was tried in 1807 on charges of criminal conspiracy for making a 'diabolical wager' to seduce Lord Cloncurry's wife. Written whilst Betjeman was staying at Packenham Hall, Ireland with Edward and Christine Longford and printed by the local paper. Peterson AA1..
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- Bookseller
- Clearwater Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ARC91257
- Title
- Sir John Piers.
- Author
- JOHN BETJEMAN (writing as 'Epsilon')
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Mullinger, The Westmeath Examiner [1938].
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Clearwater Books
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