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Sir John Betjeman

Male : Poet & Architectural Writer. 1933 married Penelope Valentine Hester Chetwode. Knighted 1969. Poet Laureate 1972-1984
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Highgate, London

Date of Birth : 1906 Date of Death : 1984 Age : 78

Pseudonyms : Epsilon, Richard M Farran

Education : Marlborough Sch & Magadalen College, Oxford (but left without a degree)
All John Murray unless stated
1931-1940
Mount Zion
(nd.1931 James Press) - no d/w + a De Luxe Ed of 100
Mount Zion
(1975 St Martin's Press, NY)
Ghastly Good Taste : The Rise & Fall of English Architecture
(1933 Chapman & Hall)
(1970 Anthony Blond) - facsimile reprint + Ltd Signed Ed 200 in slipcase
(Ed) Cornwall Illustrated (1934 Architectural Press : Shell Guide) - card covers, No d/w
(1939 Faber) (1964 Faber) - revised edition as "Cornwall"
Devon
(1936 AP : Shell Guide) - card covers, no d/w
Continual Dew : A Little Book of Bourgeois Verse
(1937)
- decorations by Osbert Lancaster. d/w by E McKnight Kauffer
(1977 John Murray £2.95) - facsimile reprint
Sir John Piers
(1938 Westmeath Examiner, Mullingar) - "Epsilon'. Ltd Ed 50
An Oxford University Chest
(1938 John Miles)
(1978 SR Publishers, Wakefield) - facsimile reprint
A Handbook on Paint
(1939 Silicate Paint Co) - pamphlet with Hugh Casson
Antiquarian Prejudice
(1939 Hogarth Press) - pamphlet
Devon
(1939 Faber)
Old Lights for New Chancels
(1940) + a signed Ltd Ed

1941-1950
Vintage London
(1942 Collins)
English Cities and Small Towns
(1943 Collins)
(Ed) English, Scottish & Welsh Landscape 1700-1860 (1944 Muller)
- with Geoffrey Taylor. <John Piper>
John Piper
(1944 Penguin) - pb
English, Scottish & Welsh Landscape Verse
(1944 Muller) - with Geoffrey Taylor. John Piper
New Bats in Old Belfries
(1945) + signed Ltd Ed
Slick, But Not Streamlined
(1947 Doubleday US) - Ed & Intro by W H Auden
Selected Poems
(1948) + 18 signed
Murray's Buckinghamshire Architectural Guide
(1948) - with John Piper
Murray's Berkshire Architectural Guide
(1949) - with John Piper

1951-1960
Shropshire
(1951 Faber : Shell Guide) - with John Piper
The English Scene
(1951 CUP/National Book League) - pamphlet
First and Last Loves : Essays Mainly Topographical & Architectural
(1952)
- folding plate and d/w by John Piper
Verses Turned in Aid of a Public Subscription Toward the Restoration of the Church
of St Katherine, Chiselhampton, Oxon
(1952 Chiselhampton) - pamphlet
A Few Late Chrysanthemums : 34 Poems
(1954) + 50 Signed
Poems in the Porch
(1954 SPCK) - pamphlet
The English Town in the Last Hundred Years
(1956 CUP) - Rude Lecture pamphlet
(Ed) Collins Guide to English Parish Churches (1958 Collins)
(Ed) Collins Pocket Guide to English Parish Churches (1958 Collins) - Revised Ed of above. 2 vols
John Betjeman
(1958 Edward Hutton Pocket Poets) - pb
Collected Poems
(1958) + Ltd Ed signed 100 copies
[The 10.000 first print run sold out in a week]
Lament for Moira McCavendish
(nd. Browne Lismore) - booklet of 20 copies
Summoned by Bells
(1960) + Ltd Signed and numbered 125. Michael Tree
Ground Plan to Skyline
(1960 Newman Neame) - as Richard M Farran

1961-1970
A Ring of Bells
(1962) - Edward Ardizzone
English Churches
(1964 Studio Vista) - with Basil Clarke
The City of London Churches
(1965 Pitkin Pictorial) - pb
High and Low
(1966) + Ltd Ed signed Ed 100
Six Betjeman Songs
(1967 Duckworth) - 24pp pamphlet. Music by Mervyn Horder
Victorian and Edwardian London from Old Photographs
(1969 Batsford)
Ten Wren Churches
(1970 Editions Elector) - Ltd Ed 100 in folder

1971-1980
A Wembley Lad and The Crem
(1971 Poem of the Month Club) - signed broadsheet
Victorian and Edwardian Oxford from Old Photographs
(1971 Batsford) - with David Vaisey
Victorian and Edwardian Brighton from Old Photographs
(1972 Batsford) - with J S Gray
London's Historic Railway Stations
(1972 Murray £3.50)
A Pictorial History of English Architecture
(1972 Murray £5)
West Country Churches
(1973 Society of Saints Peter & Paul) - 19pp pamphlet
Victorian and Edwardian Cornwall from Old Photographs
(1974 Batsford) - with A L Rowse
Plea for Holy Trinity Church, Sloane St
(1974 Church Literature Assoc) - leaflet
A Nip in the Air
(1974) + Ltd signed Ed 175
Betjeman in Miniature
(1976 Gleniffer Press) - 250 copies
Archie and the Strict Baptists
(1977) - children's story. Phillida Gili
Souvenir of Metroland
(1977 BBC Publications) - 220 copies. No d/w
The Best of Betjeman
(1978)
Five Betjeman Songs
(1980 Joseph Weinberger pb)
Ode on the Marriage of HRH Prince Charles to Lady Diana Spencer
(1980 Warren editions) - 125 copies of a signed broadsheet
Church Poems
(1980 Murray) - this defective 1st issue was withdrawn

AFTER 1981
Church Poems
(1981 £5.95) - John Piper
Church Poems
(1981) + Ltd Ed of 100 signed by Betjeman & John Piper
St Mary Le Strand
(1981 St Mary Le Strand) - signed broadsheet
Uncollected Poems
(1982) + Signed Ltd Ed of 100
An Exhibition of Works
(1983 Warren Editions, London) - 380.
John Piper, Philida Gill & Glynn Boyd Harte
Ah Middlesex
(1984 Warren Editions) - Ltd Ed 250
Betjeman's Cornwall
(1984)
My Favourite Betjeman
(1985 Parkinson's Disease Society)
Betjeman's London
(1988 pb)
The Illustrated Poems of John Betjeman
(1995 John Murray £17.99) - David Gentleman
In Praise of Churches
(1996 John Murray £17.99) - Paul Hogarth

READING
Bevis Hillier : John Betjeman - A Life in Pictures
Patrick Taylor-Martin : John betjeman - His Life and Work
(1983 Allen Lane)
Bevis Hillier : Young Betjeman
(1988)
Imogen Lycett Green : Grandmother's Footsteps - A Journey in Search of Penelope Betjeman
(1994 Macmillan £20)
Candida Lycett-Green : John Betjeman : Letters Vol 1 1926-1951
(1994 Methuen £20)
Candida Lycett-Green : John Betjeman : Letters Vol 2 1951-1984
(1995 Methuen £20)
John Betjeman Coming Home
(1997 Methuen £20)
Bevis Hillier : John Betjeman - New Fame, New Love
(2002 John Murray £25)
Bevis Hillier : Betjeman - The Bonus of Laughter
(2004 John Murray £25)

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