Lord Mount Prospect
John Betjeman
Published by Privately Printed at The Tragara Press, Edinburgh, 1981
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Soft cover
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Small 8vo, 29 pages, frontispiece plate by David Bogie, book in near fine condition with very good marbled paper wrapper, paper title label on front panel, edges and corners of wrapper creased with some edge tears, number 82 of 95 copies. Seller Inventory # 027557
Bibliographic Details
Title: Lord Mount Prospect
Publisher: Privately Printed at The Tragara Press, Edinburgh
Publication Date: 1981
Binding: Soft cover
Illustrator: David Bogie
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
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Lord Mount Prospect. A story. With illustrations by David Bogie.
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Privately printed at The Tragara Press, Edinburgh, 1981
Used
Soft cover
First Edition
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, limited to 95 numbered copies (this being #17). Slim 8vo. 29pp. Unprinted stiff card wrappers. With a frontispiece by David Bogie and one further plate. In fine state with the handsome marbled dust wrapper with printed title label, with just a trace of wear to the yapped upper edge. The first separate edition of this Betjeman story, which was originally printed in the periodical 'The London Mercury' in 1929. Seller Inventory # GAM299
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Lord Mount Prospect
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Privately printed at The Tragara Press, Edinburgh, 1981
Used
Soft cover
Seller: Oakholm Books, Aberfeldy, United Kingdom
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Soft cover. Condition: Very near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. David Bogie (illustrator). Edition limited to 95 copies set in Bell type and printed by hand on Barcham Green paper. The story first appeared in the London Mercury (1929). This copy is not numbered - "proof copy" is written in ink on the colophon page. Top edge of the marbled jacket/wrapper is a little creased, otherwise fine condition. Seller Inventory # 006993
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LORD MOUNT PROSPECT
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Privately Printed at the Tragara Press, Edinburgh, 1981
Used
Hardcover
Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. White card covers with marbled paper DW and cover label, small 8vo., 29, (1) pages, frontispiece. One of 95 numbered copies printed in Bell type on Barcham Green handmade paper. The story first appeared in "The London Mercury" in 1929, two years before Betjeman's first book publication. A fine copy in archival mylar. Seller Inventory # 006078
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Lord Mount Prospect: [a short story]. Illustrations by David Bogie
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Edinburgh: privately printed at the Tragara Press, 1981
Used
Soft cover
First Edition
Seller: James Fergusson Books & Manuscripts, London, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Marbled wrappers, printed paper label. Edition limited to 95 numbered copies. A baroquely comic tale of the Society for the Discovery of Obscure Peers and the last of the Ember Day Bryanites; first printed in The London Mercury, December 1929, almost two years before the future Poet Laureate published his first book, Mount Zion. Halliwell A82. Peterson A49. Seller Inventory # TR100026
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Lord Mount Prospect: [a short story]. Illustrations by David Bogie
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Edinburgh: privately printed at the Tragara Press, 1981
Used
Seller: James Fergusson Books & Manuscripts, London, United Kingdom
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No Binding. Condition: Fine. Unbound proofs: 32pp., folded sheets, unsewn, without the marbled wrappers. Edition limited to 95 numbered copies on Barcham Green paper, this copy unnumbered and inscribed by the printer, Alan Anderson, "One of four proof copies on Hodgkinson paper A.A. 12.xi.81". A baroquely comic tale of the Society for the Discovery of Obscure Peers and the last of the Ember Day Bryanites; first printed in The London Mercury, December 1929, almost two years before the future Poet Laureate John Betjeman published his first book, Mount Zion. Seller Inventory # 32M100064
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Lord Mount Prospect: [a short story]. Illustrations by David Bogie
Published by
Edinburgh: privately printed at the Tragara Press, 1981
Used
Soft cover
First Edition
Seller: James Fergusson Books & Manuscripts, London, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Marbled wrappers, printed paper label. Edition limited to 95 numbered copies, this copy unnumbered and inscribed by the printer "proof copy" and "A.B. with all good wishes from A.A. 8.xii.81"; loosely inserted a presentation autograph letter signed from Alan Anderson to Alan Bell, 2pp. 8vo, Edinburgh, 8 December 1981: "I have sent a number of copies to the author, and also to David Bogie, and am sending a copy to John Murray . . . Let me know if anything comes of the ideas you mentioned to me regarding Waugh and/or Connolly." A baroquely comic tale of the Society for the Discovery of Obscure Peers and the last of the Ember Day Bryanites; first printed in The London Mercury, December 1929, almost two years before the author published his first book, Mount Zion. "Touches of extravagant fantasy are reminiscent of early Evelyn Waugh, such as the obsession of Lord Octagon, one of the Irish peers hunted down by the Society, who breeds electric eels with the intention of harnessing their energies to light his house" (Bevis Hillier, writing in Young Betjeman). Seller Inventory # EW100136
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Lord Mount Prospect
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John Murray, 1981
Used
Soft cover
Signed
Seller: Tim Arlott Books, Newbury, BERKS, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. One of a limited edition of 95 copies set in Bell type and printed by hand on Barcham green paper in soft red cloth cover. One of four large paper copies. Signed 'John Betjeman' on title page. Note from publisher John Murray to late English broadcaster and writer John Arlott at front "2.12.82 Rather wobbly (he means Betjeman's signature) but I hope what you need. He looks forward to seeing you. Ever John.' Lord Mount Prospect was private printed by the Tragara Press, Edinburgh in 1981. Inscribed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 188
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