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London : John Murray, (1937). First edition. An early collection of thirty-three poems - including "Slough", "Croydon" and "Tunbridge Wells".
Foolscap 4to. [x],(46)pp. Illustrations. Original black cloth, blocked in gilt on upper cover and spine; all edges gilt; a few faint spots; neat ownership inscription; occasional neat pencil annotation; a very good copy in the original McKnight Kauffer dust-jacket - a design in white, blue and black - a little nicked, tape-repaired at head, and with extensive tanning to spine and outer edges.

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London : John Murray, 1940. First edition. An early collection of twenty-five poems, including "Upper Lambourne", "Myfanwy", etc.
Crown 8vo. (xx),(67),[i]pp. Silhouette portrait frontispiece by Apollo. Ribbon marker. Original blue pebbled cloth; paper title label on spine; label very slightly rubbed; a few very minor marks and signs of age and use, but a very good copy. Contemporary (April 1940) ownership inscription of E. P. B. Linstead of Kessingland on front free endpaper, and a cutting of a contemporary review inserted.

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London : John Murray, 1945. First edition. An early collection of twenty-four poems, including "Parliament Hill Fields", "South London Sketch, 1944", "May-Day Song for North Oxford", "In a Bath Teashop", etc.
Crown 8vo. vi,54pp. Original red cloth; paper title label ruled and lettered in black on upper cover; covers faintly flecked and mottled as usual; light spotting of endpapers; two leaves slightly creased, but overall a very good copy.

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London : John Murray, (1974). First edition. Twenty-seven poems from the period 1967-1974, including The Costa Blanca, A Wembley Lad, A Mind's Journey to Diss, etc.
Crown 8vo. 62,[ii]pp. Original yellow cloth, blocked and lettered on spine in gilt; near fine in the original turquoise, white and black dust-jacket - with a faint suggestion of creasing at upper edge, but also near fine.

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[London] : Privately Printed, [ca.1977]. First edition. A broadside poem of twenty lines in honour of the famous old church in the Strand, signed by Betjeman in his frail hand of old age, and published from his address at 29 Radnor Walk. Undated, but presumably related to Betjeman's fund-raising campaign for the church launched in 1977.
Single sheet of imitation parchment paper, printed in black on recto only. 296 x 206mm (approx. 11-5/8" x 8-1/8"). Illustration. Two tiny spots at head, but otherwise in very good and clean state.

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London : John Murray, (1982). First edition : one of 100 numbered copies, signed by Betjeman, and specially bound. A collection of twenty-nine poems previously unpublished, or unpublished in book form, with an introduction by Bevis Hillier.
Crown 8vo. [2],[viii],(82),[iv]pp. Original maroon buckram, blocked and lettered on spine in gilt; a few minor creases, but otherwise in excellent condition, in the original marbled slip-case.

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