BETJEMAN, John. John Betjeman’s Collected Poems. Compiled with an Introduction by Lord Birkenhead. London John Murray. 1960 Signed

Small 8vo.; publisher’s ivory-coloured cloth lettered gilt to spine with single-line panel in blind to boards, in letterpress dustwrapper; pp. [iv], v-xxvi + 279; a very nearly fine copy with 2 or 3 tiny pale brown spots to joints, internally fine and uninscribed, in a near fine, unclipped dustwrapper (15s) with negligible edge rubbing and a suggestion of fading to spine.

9th edition, first published in 1958, including poems written in the interim. Signed in ink by John Betjeman to the title-page.