Ghastly Good Taste
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John Betjeman
Ghastly Good Taste
Anthony Blond, London,1970.
First edition thus.
First issued in 1933, this diatribe against the rise and fall of good taste in architecture is here revised, with a pull-out illustration of architectural styles that extends to nine feet.
Betjeman is very funny about his own youthful prejudices, but underneath is a grim warning about the ugliness of the modern age, which of course, is now only too true (and too late).
An excellent example of a great book, with slight wear to jacket.
Hardcover.