Category: Poetry
Cornwall: Harry Chambers / Peterloo Poets. 1979
First edition, first printing. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Original pictorial wrappers. Previous owner’s ink stamp and signature otherwise a FINE copy.
+ add to basket £10.00
London: Puffin Books. 1991
First edition thus. Original pictorial wrappers (laminated). INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. A VERY GOOD copy with the recipient’s ink name to the top corner of the reverse of front wrapper.
+ add to basket £18.00
New York: Voyages. 1956
First edition, first printing. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. One of only 50 copies (of a total edition of 750). A NEAR FINE copy in the original dustwrapper. Scarce.
+ add to basket £475.00
New York: Random House. 1955
First edition, first printing [precedes the UK edition]. AUTHOR’S COPY. Original tan cloth backed black boards with grey titles to the spine. A VERY GOOD copy with light rubbing and wear to the extremities. This is the author’s copy within which are several annotations by Auden as well as a loosely inserted autograph manuscript of the third stanza of “The History of Truth” and an original typescript of “Goodbye to the Mezzogiorno” with one autograph correction by the author. This volume was give...
+ add to basket £1750.00
New York: The Phoenix Book Shop. 1968
First edition, first printing. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. One of only 100 numbered and 26 lettered copies. This numbered 38. A NEAR FINE copy. Scarce.
+ add to basket £275.00
London: John Murray. 1981
First edition thus. One of 100 numbered copies specially bound and signed by author and artist. A FINE copy in the publisher’s original green quarter buckram, green silk boards, with the title to the spine and top edge gilt. With the original slightly nicked acetate.
+ add to basket £350.00
London: John Murray. 1958
First edition, first printing. A FINE copy with no inscriptions or stamps in NEAR FINE dustwrapper. A lovely copy.
+ add to basket £80.00
London: Faber and Faber. 1957
First edition, first printing. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY. A lovely NEAR FINE copy in the chipped, nicked and rubbed original dustwrapper with small loss to the spine tips. Not price-clipped. 2,500 copies printed (Peterson A24a) Inscribed and embellished by the author to Gilbert Harding on the front free endpaper “To Gilbert from John B 1957”. Betjeman has also made a single word correction to his introduction.
+ add to basket £300.00
London: John Murray. 1966
First edition, first printing. Original cloth in dustwrapper. A FINE copy in FINE dustwrapper that has a lightly faded spine. No inscriptions or stamps and not price-clipped.
+ add to basket £65.00
London: Edward Hulton. The Pocket Poets. 1958
First edition, first printing. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY. Original card covers. A FINE copy. (Peterson A26a) Inscribed by John Betjeman to Gilbert Harding on a paper label attached to the front free endpaper “This is for you old ????? J Betjeman”.
+ add to basket £150.00
London: Macmillan. 1949
First edition, first printing. Original cloth in dustwrapper. A FINE copy with no inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the original lightly tanned and rubbed dustwrapper. Not price-clipped.
+ add to basket £15.00
London: Constable. 1945
First edition, first printing. Original brown printed wrappers. A VERY GOOD copy with rubbing to the extremities. Contents are complete with light spotting to the text block edges. From the library of author Naomi Mitchison and inscribed by Gordon Bottomley on the half title ‘To Naomi Mitchison, in friendship and admiration from Gordon Bottomley. Silverdale : New Year 1945.’
+ add to basket £30.00
London: Constable and Co. Ltd. 1932
First edition, first printing. Original brown printed wrappers with paper labels to the front and spine. A VERY GOOD copy with rubbing to the extremities and erosion of the paper label on the spine. Binding square and tight. Contents are complete with light spotting to the text block edges. From the library of author Naomi Mitchison with her bookplate on the front free endpaper.
+ add to basket £25.00
Great Britain: Oxford at the Clarendon Press. 1929
Third impression of the first edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Original boards in dustwrapper. A NEAR FINE copy with the publisher's note on the text bound in at rear, as called for in VERY GOOD rubbed and lightly chipped dustwrapper. Not price-clipped. Inscribed by the author in red ink on the half title “Nancy Denne Coxon Nov 25 1929 with Robert Bridge’s good wishes”
+ add to basket £55.00
London: The Anvil Press. 1985
First edition, first printing. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. Original printed wrappers with dustwrapper. Ownership ink stamp and signature of the poet David Hughes otherwise a FINE copy.
+ add to basket £10.00
| Page 1 of 10 | > | >> | |
