First published in 1994 in paperback this handsome new hardback edition appeared after the book had lasted as the New York Times Best-Seller for 216 weeks and been made into a Clint Eastwood film
Some creasing to dust-wrapper otherwise pristine
Worn dust-jacket slit along spine folds and taped together to rear
Concertina book on thick card
neat annotation to rear cover
John Betjeman - John Betjeman's Collected Poems - First Edition Economics First published in 1994 inBETJEMAN, John (1906 1984), [BIRKENHEAD, The Earl of, compiler and introduction]. John Betjeman's Collected Poems. London: John Murray, 1958. FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp. xxvi; [2]; 279; [1]. Publisher's cream cloth, gilt titles to spine, top edge red. Dust jacket with printed price of 15s net to front flap. Ownership label to pastedown, top edge a little faded, cloth a touch bruised to spine ends and corners. Dust jacket