Archie and the Strict Baptists
John Murray, 1977.
First edition. 4to. Publisher's yellow cloth lettered in gilt, with a gilt vignette of Archie to the upper board, in original pictorial dustwrapper. Illustrated in colour throughout by Phillida Gili, whose illustrations were based on Betjeman's manuscript sketches. A very good copy indeed in a very good dustwrapper, one minor short closed tear to head of the spine.
Betjeman's life attachment to his teddy bear Archibald Ormsby Gore was famous, with Archie inspiring Sebastian Flyte's Aloysius in Brideshead Revisited, and this charming story is based on a tale about him Betjeman used to tell his children.
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