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London: John Murray, 1948. Hardcover. Very Good/good. 127 pages. 4 3/4 x 7 1/2 in. Red paper binding, black lettering on paper label. Condition of the book is VERY GOOD: light wear and soiling to covers and spine, pages clean, binding tight. Condition of the dustjacket is GOOD: wear and soiling overall, several tears at edges, lower spine end missing, small hole in spine, spine darkened, price clipped, in new mylar wrapper. Poetry, RGR.

John Murray 1950, 2nd impression,. 1950. Hardcover. hardback, 8vo, xxii,127pp, owner's name on endpaper, text clean and sound, red paper-covered boards, Very Good / no dustwrapper .

John Murray,, [1948]. Sm. 8vo., First Edition; original red cloth, wanting paper label at backstrip else a very good, bright, clean copy. Peterson A15a; Stapleton, I.24.

London: John Murray, 1956. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Fourth printing noted on DJ. Nice copy in original red cloth. Inscribed by Betjeman (and uncommon thus); dated 1956.

London, John Murray. 1948. . First edition, first impression, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR; 8vo; publisher's red cloth, white paper title label to spine printed in black, browning to the half-title leaf from loose inserts, spine faded, otherwise very good. A major publication at the time which was included by Cyril Connolly as one of the Key 100 books of the modern movement. A slightly surprising literary association copy with the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, 'Inscribed fro Brian Aldiss the brilliant fellow J Betjeman V.X.MCMXLVIII'. The recipient would later become one of Britain's most celebrated writers of Science Fiction. At the time of the inscription, he was working in an Oxford bookshop that Betjeman patronised. Literary associations of Betjeman's major collections are rare.