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BETJEMAN, John. Continual Dew. A Little Book of Bourgeois Verse. London: John Murray, [1937]. Small 4°. Printed mostly on pale blue paper, illustrations, some full-page, initials, the 8 central pages printed in red and black on white India paper. Original black decorated cloth gilt, dust-jacket by McKnight Kauffer with price of 7/6 unclipped. FIRST EDITION. With 9 other books by the same author: High and Low (1966, ONE OF 100 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR), A Nip in the Air (1974, ONE OF 175 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR), Church Poems (1981, ONE OF 100 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND BY ARTIST JOHN PIPER), Lord Mount Prospect (Edinburgh, Tragara Press, 1981, ONE OF 95 COPIES, marbled wrappers), Uncollected Poems (1982, ONE OF 100 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, original marbled slipcase), Old Lights for New Chancels (1940), Slick but not Streamlined (1947), Verses in aid of St Katherine's Chiselhampton (1952) and John Betjemen, Pocket Poets (1958).
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