Betjeman, Sir John
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Description
Continual dew. London: John Murray, 1937. First edition, 8vo, inscribed by Betjeman to front free-endpaper: "There's a long, long trailer [sic.] winding/ Out of broken hearts and brains/ While the Ealing[?] boys[?] are minding/ Our John V. Baines," signed by John Betjeman and dated 1943, original neo-Gothic style black cloth gilt, dustwrapper not price-clipped but a little browned, especially to spine, and slightly chipped; Idem] Mount Zion. London: The James Press, [1931]. First? edition, 8vo, original striped pink and gilt boards with paper label of woman on telephone to upper cover, lower part of spine lacking and upper chipped, some fading and rubbing to boards, label a little foxed (2)