John Betjeman - Cornwall - Inscribed First Edition Thus

BETJEMAN, John (1906-1984).

Cornwall. A Shell Guide.

London: Faber and Faber, 1964.

INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (24 x 19cm), pp.142; [10]. Publisher's orange cloth, titles in blue to spine, photographic endpapers. Dust-jacket with printed price of 15s net to front flap. Inscribed with a doodle by the author to Jonathan Stedall to the half title page.

Internally clean, one final leaf creased, dust-jacket a little rubbed and chipped to extremities. An attractive copy with an excellent association. Very good.

The recipient Jonathan Stedall was a documentary filmmaker who had a long professional relationship with Betjeman and made a number of his best loved programmes.