John Betjeman - John Betjeman's Collected Poems - Signed Copy

BETJEMAN, John (1906-1984), [BIRKENHEAD, The Earl of, compiler and introduction].

John Betjeman's Collected Poems.

London: John Murray, 1960.

SIGNED COPY, first edition, tenth printing. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xxvi; [2]; 279; [1]. Publisher's grey cloth, gilt titles to spine. Dust-jacket with printed price of 15s net to front flap. Signed by John Betjeman to the title page.

Ownership in pencil to flyleaf, spotting and toning to edges. Dust-jacket a little rubbed to extremities, marginally sunned to spine, ring mark to upper. Very good.

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