Slick But Not Streamlined

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1947. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First American edition. Selected with an introduction by W.H. Auden. Small dampstain on page foredges, spine ends and corners lightly rubbed and bumped, very good in a good only price-clipped dustwrapper with some loss of the spine ends. Poems and short pieces.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Very Good-. 1947. Hardcover. "Poems & Short Pieces by John Betjeman; Selected, & With an Introduction by W. H. Auden." 185 pages, black pictorial cloth with gilt printing. Spine ends and edges are scuffed, covers show some very light spotting, previous owner signed the front free endpaper- otehrwise this… Read more about this item

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. I love suburbs and gas-lights and Point Street and Gothic Revival churches and mineral railways, provincial towns and Garden cities," says the author about his poetry on his inner dust jacket flap. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean,… Read more about this item

Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities, half of bottom tips a bit damp-stained, dissipating, half-dime sized. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, moderately worn at tips, chipped a bit there, protected by a plastic… Read more about this item

Doubleday, January 1947. First Edition. Cloth . Very Good/Good. Darkened spine & margins; chipping & edgewear. Slanted spine. Gold lettering. Previous owner's bookplate affixed to front pastedown.

New York:: Doubleday & Company Inc., 1947. price-clipped dust jacket bumped on all four corners and spine has tears on both top and bottom edges with a slight tear to the front of dust jacket. Stated First Edition. Red silk ribbon bookmarker. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

Doubleday, 1947. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Doubleday. HARDCOVER. Fair. 1st edition, introduction by W.H. Auden. Dust jacket present but price-clipped, sunned, creased and in 2 pieces with many chips and small tears that have been reinforced with archival document repair tape. Book Near Fine. Former owner name on fly page. Binding solid, pages age toned but pages crisp and clean. Some light rubs to… Read more about this item