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Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 1951. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. 8vo. (8.2 x 5.8 inches). x, 701pp. Illustrated with seven mono photo portrait plates, six of Mansfield and one of Middleton Murry. Tissue guard to frontis illustration. A fine copy in a fine leather binding by Bayntun (Riviere) of Bath. Full..... More
J. S. Jordan. London. 1791. THIRD EDITION. Small 4o.( 8 x 5.2 inches). x, 7-171pp. Printed part of the half title present but cropped to half an inch above and three quarters of an inch below the printed text. Title page with a small area, presumably a previous owners name..... More
R. Ackermann. London. 1822. SIX ISSUES BOUND TOGETHER. 8vo. (9.8 x 6.3 inches). Complete with a mono illustrated main title page and a total of 40 full page plates, 31 of them hand coloured. A very good clean set in contemporary tan calf boards with decorative and ruled gilt borders..... More
R. Ackermann. London. 1822. SIX ISSUES BOUND TOGETHER. 8vo. (9.8 x 6.3 inches). Complete with a mono illustrated main title page and a total of 37 full page plates, 31 of them hand coloured. A couple of pages with offsetting from the aquatint plate opposite, otherwise a very good clean..... More
NP.ND. 1958. Single leaf, folded. Contains an early typed draft of the five verse poem with two words circled in pencil, each with a cross at the end of the line, which were later changed for the finished version. The poem is typed on one side of printed note paper..... More
NP. 1981. TYPED LETTER, SIGNED. On Betjeman's printed note paper with his name and address (29 Radnor Walk, London, SW3 4BP), and dated 2.4.81. The letter is thanking a Mr. Hilliam for a poem about Betjeman that he had written and sent in january, noting 'it is worth my keeping..... More
Bedford Park Festival Committee, London. 1968. SIGNED BY BETJEMAN, beneath a printed poem on the title page. 28pp, plus printed card wraps. The title page states 'A message from our patron. This doggerel based on the 'Ballad of Bedford park' is my greeting to you all for the 1968 festival.'..... More
Bernhard Tauchnitz. Leipzig. 1910. FIRST TAUCHNITZ EDITION. Small 8vo. (6.5 x 4.8 inches). A very good copy in attractive early binding of quarter brown calf. The spine with gilt decoration, ruled lines and lettering. Marbled paper on boards and endpapers. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. --- Mason's Bibliography..... More
Bernhard Tauchnitz. Leipzig. 1909. FIRST TAUCHNITZ EDITION. Small 8vo. (6.5 x 4.8 inches). A very good copy in attractive early binding of quarter brown calf. The spine with gilt decoration, ruled lines and lettering. Marbled paper on boards and endpapers. Top edge gilt. A couple of gatherings slightly sprung and..... More
Bernhard Tauchnitz. Leipzig. 1908. FIRST TAUCHNITZ EDITION. Small 8vo. (6.5 x 4.8 inches). A very good copy in attractive early binding of quarter brown calf. The spine with gilt decoration, ruled lines and lettering. Marbled paper on boards and endpapers. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. --- Mason's Bibliography..... More
Bernhard Tauchnitz. Leipzig. 1909. FIRST TAUCHNITZ EDITION. Small 8vo. (6.5 x 4.8 inches). A very good copy in attractive early binding of quarter brown calf. The spine with gilt decoration, ruled lines and lettering. Marbled paper on boards and endpapers. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. --- Mason's Bibliography..... More
Bernhard Tauchnitz. Leipzig. 1909. FIRST TAUCHNITZ EDITION. Small 8vo. (6.5 x 4.8 inches). A very good copy in attractive early binding of quarter brown calf. The spine with gilt decoration, ruled lines and lettering. Marbled paper on boards and endpapers. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. --- Mason's Bibliography..... More
Bernhard Tauchnitz. Leipzig. 1909. FIRST TAUCHNITZ EDITION. Small 8vo. (6.5 x 4.8 inches). A very good copy in attractive early binding of quarter brown calf. The spine with gilt decoration, ruled lines and lettering. Marbled paper on boards and endpapers. Top edge gilt. Beautiful arts and crafts style bookplate, showing..... More
The Westmeath Examiner. Mullinger. No Date. 1938. FIRST EDITION. Only 50 copies printed. 8vo. (7.7 x 5.3 inches). 12pp pamphlet stapled into green wraps printed in black to the front cover. Inscribed in ink on the first blank leaf by Betjeman to his friend George Alfred Kolkhorst, a lecturer in..... More
The Celendine Press, Stratford-upon-Avon. 1981. LIMITED EDITION. One of 75 hand numbered copies, out of a total edition of 350 (there were a further 75 casebound copies which were signed by all of the contributors), quarter bound in black buckram with marbled paper covered boards. Spine lettered in gilt. Previous..... More
John Murray. London. 1960. SIGNED, LIMITED EDITION. One of 125 leather bound copies numbered and signed by Betjeman, this number 39. Portrait frontis etching of Betjeman by Michael Tree, with tissue guard. Illustrated throughout with drawings by Michael Tree. Original green Morocco with gilt bells designs to both boards. Spine..... More
John Murray. London. 1958. FIRST EDITION. Very good copy with previous owners name written neatly on front paste down endpaper. Publisher brown dustwrapper, lettered in white. A couple of tiny chips to top edge but overall a very good copy of this fantastic collection. More
John Murray. London. 1952, 1952. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (8.6 x 6.2 inches). Illustrated with line drawings by Piper, including a fold out panorama of Cheltenham. and dozens of mono photographs. A previous owner's neat 3 line inscription, dated 1958, to the front blank free endpaper, otherwise a fine, bright copy..... More
John Murray. London. 1940. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Illustrated with a frontispiece, titled Apollo, by John Piper. A fine copy in publishers black morocco grained cloth with printed paper label. In the original dustwrapper with loss to the bottom 1 inch of the spine and inner corner of the front panel..... More
John Murray, London. 1948. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Signed and Limited edition. This is no.4 of a special edition limited to 18 copies, printed on Japon vellum paper, with the limitation note written in ink (not in JB's hand) beneath Betjeman's signature on the verso of the half title. Original yellow..... More
John Murray. London. 1960. PROOF COPY. Illustrated with drawings by Michael Tree. Publishers green proof stiff card wrapper. Decorative endpapers bound in. A couple of page corners creased and the green wraps rubbed to the edges but overall a very good example. More
Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 1948. EARLY EDITION. 48th printing. Originally published in 1923. 8vo. (8.3 x 5.6 inches). Illustrated with 12 mono plates by the author. Finely bound in late twentieth century full red calf. Spine with raised bands, the compartments with gilt rules, lettering and decoration. Two black..... More
Macmillan and Co. London. 1896. FIRST HUGH THOMSON EDITION. 8vo. (7.8 x 5.4 inches). Illustrated with 40 full page line drawings. Publishers original burgundy cloth with decorative blind stamped floral design to both boards, the front board lettered and ruled in gilt. Spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Page edges..... More
Macmillan & Co. London. 1927 and 28. TWO VOLUMES. Reprints of the 1907 and 1908 Miniature editions. 8vo, (6.1 x 4.3 inches). Both volumes are beautifully Illustrated throughout, with forty-two and fifty line engravings respectively, by John Tenniel. Tissue guard to both frontipieces. Neat 3 line inscription, dated 1929, to..... More
Methuen & Co. Limited, London. 1928. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.7 x 5.2 inches). Illustrated throughout by E. H. Shepard. Some light offsetting to the illustrated endpapers, from the dustwrapper, otherwise a bright and clean, near fine book in the publishers pink cloth with gilt lettering to the spine and a...... More