BETJEMAN, John. Continual Dew a little book of bourgeois verse. London: William Clowes and Sons, Ltd. for John Murray, 1937. Small 4° (205 x 148mm.). Decorations. Original cloth, blocked in gilt, dust-jacket. Provenance: AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed: 'John Hanbury Angus Sparrow late of Church Preen.', and with VARIOUS MANUSCRIPT ALTERATIONS IN THE AUTHOR'S HAND. FIRST EDITION; Old Lights for New Chancels Topographical and amatory verses. London: Butler & Tanner Ltd for John Murray, 1940. 8° (182 x 113mm.). Portrait frontispiece. Original printed wrappers. Provenance: John Sparrow (presentation copy from the publisher with a related tls. from John Murray loosely inserted). Proof copy with variant reading of the title; New Bats in Old Belfries Poems. London: Butler & Tanner Ltd. for John Murray, 1945. 8° (181 x 114mm.). Title in blue and black. Original cloth, dust-jacket. Provenance: WITH EXTENSIVE MANUSCRIPT ALTERATIONS BY THE AUTHOR and including a dedication to 'Major Jock Grey Murray... in gratitude for having the courage to publish me from John Betjeman IV.I.MCMXLVI', a related note to John Sparrow loosely inserted, together with 2pp. of galley proofs and a 1p. typescript poem). FIRST EDITION; Selected Poems... Chosen With a preface by John Sparrow. London: William Clowes and Sons Ltd. for John Murray, 1948. 8° (188 x 128mm.). Original buckram, t.e.g. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 3 OF A SPECIAL EDITION LIMITED TO 18 COPIES, signed by the author and editor; First and Last Loves. William Clowes and Sons Ltd. for John Murray, 1952. 8° (212 x 150mm.). Illustrations, including one folding plate, some by John Piper. Original cloth, dust-jacket. Provenance: John Sparrow (INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR.). FIRST EDITION; Collected Poems enlarged edition... Introduction by Philip Larkin. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1971. 8° (183 x 113mm.). Original cloth, dust-jacket. Provenance: John Sparrow (inscribed: 'To John Sparrow, who did it before, and better. Philip Larkin'). - With 17 others by, or about Betjeman. (23)