John BETJEMAN

GHASTLY GOOD TASTE. 1933. 2nd issue with pages 119-120 cancelled. llus by P F Hesketh. Baronial Bkplt on paste-down. Margins lightly foxed. £65.00
GHASTLY GOOD TASTE. A Blond. 1970. Revised with annotations by the Author. Includes the folding illustration by Pter F Heseth. £25.00

CONTINUAL DEW.1937. Covers string marked otherwise very good. £50.00
CONTINUAL DEW. 1977. Facsimile reissue. Dw. £16.00

ANTIQUARIAN PREJUDICE. 1939. Hogarth Sixpenny Pamphlets. Near fine in original wraps.   £35.00

ENGLISH CITIES AND SMALL TOWNS. 1943. Britain in Pictures.
8 Plates in colour & 31 illustrated in black & white. Dw.   £20.00

JOHN PIPER. 1944. Penguin Modern Painters. Orig wraps a little spotted.Illustrated with colour & black & white plates. £12.00

SELECTED POEMS. 1948. Dw slightly torn. Inscribed by the Editor, J Sparrow, to Richard Jennings. £50.00
SELECTED POEMS. 1948. Dw slightly chipped & dusty. Slight foxing on upper edge. Preface by John Sparrow. £20.00

FIRST AND LAST LOVES. 1952. Dw very slightly chipped. Fully illustrated including drawings by J Piper. Neat name on front end paper.   £40.00

A FEW LATE CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 1954. Yellow dw a little dust soiled. Inscription on fep. £18.00

SUMMONED BY BELLS. 1960. Dw slightly torn at top of spine & price clipped. £16.00

A RING OF BELLS. 1962. Illustrated by E Ardizzone. Proof copy in original wraps.Introduced & selected for the Young by Irene SLADE. £18.00

HIGH AND LOW. 1966. Dw. Inscription on front end paper otherwise very good. £18.00
HIGH AND LOW. Reprinted in 1966-the same month as the first edition appeared. Dw torn but complete. £5.00

JOHN BETJEMAN’S COLLECTED POEMS. 1970. Dw. Enlarged Edition. £20.00

AN OXFORD UNIVERSITY CHEST. 1970. Reprint. Dw. Oxford between the Wars.
Ex-library copy with withdrawn stamps & small tape stains on inside covers, but still a very good copy. Illustrated by O Lancaster. £8.00

A NIP IN THE AIR. 1974. Dw. Inscription on front end paper. £15.00

CHURCH POEMS. 1981. Illus by J Piper. Dw price clipped. Inscription on front end paper. £20.00
CHURCH POEMS. 1981. Illus by J Piper. Slight crease in original stiff wraps. £8.50

UNCOLLECTED POEMS. 1982. Dw. Intro by B Hillier. Contains a majority of previously unpublished as well as uncollected poems. Mint. £25.00

JOHN BETJEMAN. Ed. BEVIS HILLIER. 1984. John Murray. A LIFE IN PICTURES. Dw. Profusely illustrated in colour and black/white. Very good.  £8.50

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BOOKS with BETJEMAN contributions.

MURRAY'S BUCKINGHAMSHIRE ARCHITECTURAL GUIDE. 1948. J Murray. Dw a little frayed on the ends of the spine. Edited by J Betjeman & J Piper. 166 photographs & map at the rear. £25.00

MURRAY'S BERKSHIRE ARCHITECTURAL GUIDE. 1949. Dw slightly frayed. Edited by J Betjeman &
J Piper. Illustrated with 166 photographs. Index. £25.00

A NINETEENTH-CENTURY CHILDHOOD by MARY MCCARTHY. 1948. Dw soiled & frayed. Intro by J Betjeman. £8.00

THE EIGHTEEN-NINETIES. A Period Anthology in Prose & Verse. Ed. M SECKER. 1948. Intro by J Betjeman 6pp. Dw frayed. (R Le Gallienne, A Machen, A Beardsley, Corvo, O Custance, J Davidson, E Dowson, F Harris, W B Yeats, T Wratislaw) £18.00

COLLINS GUIDE TO ENGLISH PARISH CHURCHES including THE ISLE OF MAN. 1958. Edited & introduced by J Betjeman. A Selective guide judging the buildings from their architectural atmosphre & there aesthetic points. Betjeman has contributed eith singly or jointly 5 articles & J Piper 12 illustrations as well as a joint artivle with Betjeman, Review slip laid in. £30.00

THE COLLECTED POEMS OF SIR JOHN SQUIRE 1959. Dw. Intro by J Betjeman. £12.00

ALTAR AND PEW.1959. Pocket Poets. Orig wraps. Church of England Verses. Introduced by J Betjeman. £12.00

EMBARKATION FOR CYTHERAby Ian HAMILTON. 1974. Prefactory note by Betjeman. Original wraps. £15.00

GOODBYE BRITAIN by Tony ALDOUS. 1975. Dw. Photographically illustrated. Bryan Little's copy with his signature & date on fep and with the cutting of his 3 column review in the Birmingham Post and 3pp of his holograph notes loosely inserted. Introduced by J Betjeman. £12.00

AN OMELETTE OF VULTURES EGGS. Poems 1939-1945 by M DUGDALE. 1982. Intro by J Betjeman. The poet, a close university friend of Betjeman, joined the Royal Engineers during WW2. Most poems in this collection are war poems written during his 3 years in Palestine. Privately printed & limited to 90 numbered copies signed by Betjeman with a 2 ½ pp memorial tribute for an "Oxford" friend. £65.00

THE YEAR'S POETRY. 1938. Ed D KILHAM ROBERTS, J LEHMANN et Al. Cover sunned & a little worn at top of spine. Inscription on front end paper. (W B Yeats, De la Mare, E Muir, C Day Lewis, G Grigson, J Betjeman, Auden, W Empson, C Caudwell, MacNeice, Prokosch, K Raine, S Spender, F Scarfe, C Madge, L Whistler, G Barker, R Todd, Dylan Thomas, etc.) £12.50

LITTLE REVIEWS ANTHOLOGY. Ed. D Val BAKER. 1945. Dw torn & frayed. Inscription on front end paper. Contains essays/stories by A Koestler, K Rhys,E Mannin, A Kavan, F Urquart, P Fallon, Alun Lewis, J Atkins, S Chaplin,etc. Poems by J Bayliss, M Lindsay, V Watkins, S Keyes, G Barker, W S Graham, S Goodsir Smith, H MacDiarmid, W Soutar, J Betjeman, R Fuller, J Heath-Stubbs, R S Thomas, R Greacen, etc. ) £15.00

FIRST TIME IN AMERICA. 1948. NY. Ed John ARLOTT. Dw frayed. A Selection of poems never before published in America including Dylan Thomas's 1st bookform of 2 poems & others by R Aldington, M Ayrton, J Betjeman, M Peake, R Campbell, W De La Mare, L Durrell, S Spender, C Hassall, R Heppenstall, J Heath-Stubbs, P Kavanagh, S Keyes, R Todd, V Sackville-West, J Lehmann, L MacNeice, N Nicholson, W Gardiner, R Pitter, W Plomer, M Roberts, Stevie Smith, C Madge, R Church, A Young, etc. £30.00

POEMS OF THE WAR YEARS. Ed. Maurice WOLLMAN. 1948. Complimentary Copy from the Publisher. Name on front end paper.
( H. D, De La Mare, P Dickinson, L Durrell, R Fuller, D Gascoyne, J Gawsworth,
W Gibson, O St John Gogarty, R Graves, J Grigson, C Hassall, J Heath-Stubbs,
J Lehmann, A Lewis, C Day Lewis, H MacDiarmid, MacNeice, W H Auden, G Barker, J Betjeman, L Binyon, E Blunden, R Campbell, R Church, J R Anderson,etc.) £18.00

TURNSTILE ONE. 1948. Ed V S PRITCHETT. Dw. A Literary Miscellany from The New Statesman and Nation. (E M Forster, .M Roberts, A Waley, C Day Lewis, D Gascoyne, L MacNeice, C Bell,
S Spender, R Campbell, A Lewis, S Keyes, R West, De La Mare, Auden, H Belloc, J Betjeman,
V Sackville-West, H E Bates, V Woolf, D H Lawrence, J Joyce…) £15.00

STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF SWINDON. 1950. Commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the Borough of Swindon. Intro by D Douglas. (J Betjeman-23pp on the Architecture of Swindon. D Douglas, H B Wells,
L V Grinsell, H S Tallamy, etc.) Name on front end paper. £18.00

PORTRAITS OF ISLANDS. Ed. E MOLONY. 1951. Intro by E Molony. Illustrated. (J Betjeman-Isle of Man-10pp opening chapter. J Fisher-St Kilda. B Besey-FitzGerald-Isle of Wight. Arran-Moray McLaren, etc.) £12.00

PORTRAITS OF TOWNS. Ed. E MOLONY. 1952. Dw sl frayed. Illustrated. (J Betjeman -10pp on Aberdeen.
G Grigson, R H Mottram, J K Cross,etc.) £16.00

SATURDAY BOOK. Sixteenth Year. 1956. Ed. J HADFIELD. (J Betjeman-Lord Barton-Bedish-illus by J Piper; R Gibbings, R Church, L Sieveking, G Sims, E Waugh, L Scarfe, G Sims, G Bullet, M Steen, etc.) £15.00

PENINSULA. An Anthology of Verse from the West Country. 1957. Ed. C CAUSLEY who has also written the introduction & contributed some poems. (G Barker, J Beeching, J Betjeman, J Clemo, L Clark, R Duncan, W S Graham, J Heath-Stubbs, K Hopkins, C Day Lewis, J C Powys, etc.) £12.00

ANDREW YOUNG. PROSPECT OF A POET. 1957. Ed. L CLARK. Dw. Intro by J Masefield. Original Essays & Tributes to Andrew Young by fourteen writers including J Betjeman, E Blunden, J Arlott, R Church, V Meynell, L A G Strong, G R Hamilton, C Hassall(9pp), N Nicholson, etc. together with a checklist of his writings. £18.00

THE WIND AND THE RAIN. Ed. N Braybrooke. 1962. Dw. Includes juvenilia by J Betjeman (aged 13), J C Powys, A Wilson, A Young, J Brooke & W Sansom with other contributions by S Weil, E Sewell, F Berry, Stevie Smith, R Pitter, D Barnes, A Armstrong, R Eberhart, R S Thomas, V Watkings, Joan Hassall, David Jones, etc.) £15.00

CENTENARY ESSAYS ON CLIFTON COLLEGE. Ed. N G L HAMMOND. 1962. Dw. Essays published as part of the celebration of the centenary of Clifton College. Name on front end paper. (J Betjeman, M Scott, R P Keigwin, S P Beachcroft.) £10.00

FESTIVAL OF POETRY. Ed. P DICKINSON. 1963. Orig Wraps. Intro by T S Eliot. Souvenir Programme with contributions by J Betjeman, A Brownjohn, C Dyment, E Lucie-Smith, P Redgrove, P Beer, C Day Lewis, D Abse, T Hughes, Stevie Smith, R Fuller, W Plomer, V Scannell, C Logue, P Porter, T Tiller, etc.) £12.00

NEW STATESMANSHIP. Ed. Edward HYAMS. 1963. (W H Auden, G Barker, H E Bates, B Behan, H Belloc, A Bennett, G Orwell, J Betjeman, W H Davies, E M Forster, R Graves, J Joyce, D H Lawrence, J B Priestley, K Raine, B Russell, S Sassoon, E & O Sitwell, C P Snow, L & V Woolf, H G Wells, G Greene,etc.) £10.00

MOMENTS OF TRUTH. Ed. P SCUPHAM & J MOLE. 1965. Keepsake Press. Edn Ltd 100 copies. "Very rare" with a photocopy of a note by P Scupham to this effect. Orig wraps. Nineteen Short Poems by Living Poets:-G Barker, T Hughes, T Gunn, R Fuller, J Betjeman, R Conquest, G Ewart, P Redgrove, J Reeves, etc.
D Wevill, E Lowbury, E Brock, M Bell, P Russell, K Nott.) £30.00

GUIDE DE LA VERSION ANGLAISE. Ed. C BRUNETEAU & J-M LUCCIONI. 1968. Paris. Orig Wraps. Most contributions have accompanying french translations. (Betjeman, Sillitoe, Spender, Dylan Thomas, Auden, Eliot, R S Thomas.) £8.50

THE TWELFTH MAN. 1971. A Book of original contributions compiled by The Lord's Taverners in honour of the Duke of Edinburgh's 50th Birthday. Foreword by Prince of Wales. Henry Williamson, P Gallico, J Betjeman, G Durrell, etc. Illus by N Bentley, R Searle, E Seago, Giles, Anningoni, Gilroy, Jak, etc.) £18.00

CRITICAL QUARTERLY POETRY SUPPLEMENT. Ed. C B COX. (1974) Orig Wraps. No 15. NEW POETRY 1974. (P Larkin, J Betjeman, R S Thomas, D Dunn, D Davie, C Tomlinson, L Simpson, T Hughes, R S Thomas.,etc.) £10.00

W H AUDEN. Ed. S SPENDER. 1975. Dw. A Tribute with contributions by Editor, C Isherwood, G Grigson, E Mendelson, J Betjeman, C Connolly, J Brodsky,
J Stern, M Mandelbaum, V Nabokov, C Kallman, etc.) Illustrated. £16.00

MY OXFORD. Ed. A THWAITE. 1977. 2nd impression. Dw. Intro by A Thwaite. Illustrated. Twelve distinguished people have been invited to write about their Undergraduate years.... (J Betjeman, M Amis, N Bawden, A Coren, A Fraser, J Mortimer, A Wilson, N Nicolson, Lord Boothby, G Grimmond, etc.) £6.00

BOTH SIDES OF TAMAR-A West Country Alphabet. nd. Ed. M WILLIAMS. Stiff wraps. (C Causley-Autobiography, Bells & Causleys-12pp; J Betjeman-Treberherick-4pp; A Caddick, J C Trewin..) £10.00

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MAGAZINES with BETJEMAN contributions

LONDON MERCURY.1933 Aug. No.166. (Stories by J Betjeman & J Stern; H DeSelicourt, C Wilkinson, I A Williams; etc. Obituary-Anthony Hope..) £12.00

LONDON MAGAZINE.
1955 May. (V Watkins, J Betjeman, E de Mauny on Cocteau; P Toynbee on Spender; M Swan on H James, etc.) £5.00

1956 May. (Young English Poets 1956-K Amis, C Causley, E Jennings, P Larkin, R Nye, J Wain; J Cocteau on Colette; J Betjeman, J M Murry on D H Lawrence) £10.00

1957 May. (The Writer in His Age-Golding, Osborne, Larkin, D J Enright, R Fuller, Spender, J Wain, C Wilson; J Betjeman, Kafka, G Seferis, E Farjeon on E Thomas -16 letters including his last letter-with 2 conflicting accounts of the poet's death.) £10.00

1960 Nov. (Poems-J Betjeman, B Spencer, C Causley; P Thody on Sartre; S Pitt-Rivers on Queneau; F Mauriac-Memoires; etc.) £5.00

1964 June. (Stories by P White, J Bowen; Poems by J Betjeman, G Ewart, T Roethke; Drawings by G Sutherland, Brett Whiteley; I Hamilton on Poetry of the Forties; Letter from K Vaughan; C Osborne on Music; A Ross, S Raven..) £6.00

1964 July. (Poems-D Livingstone, M Mitchell, A Thwaite, C Logue; Story by B Skeleton; Reviews by I Hamilton, J Betjeman..) £3.50

1968 May. (Poems-G Ewart, J Betjeman, A Brownjohn; B Jones on Nemerov & G Barker; Symons, G Ewart.) £3.00

1970 Jan. (Poems-P Larkin, D Dunn, W H Auden; Articles/stories by J Symons, S Grant, R Fuller, J Betjeman, P Porter; J Ginger on I Compton-Burnett, Lucien Freud - Drawings, etc.) £8.00

1970 July-Aug. (Poems by T Hughes who has inscribed a loose sheet with his name, Y Ritsos, D Davie, T Gunn, A Ross, H Williams, J Betjeman; G Barker, B Mills, S Krim on Steinebck, M Nadeau, T Pickard, etc.) £6.00

1973/74. Dec-Jan. (About W Plomer-interview, J Stern, A Ross, J Betjeman, C Causley, T Walker, S Hill, P Bailey. New Poems:-D Davie, D Dunn, A Thwaite, L Lerner, G Holloway.. S Gardiner, T Pickard, R Garfitt, J Haynes...) £6.00

1976 Apr-May. (Poetry by T Hughes, J Haynes, B Jones, R Fuller; S Spender-Notebook; Story-G Swift; J Grenfell; J Symons, R Heppenstall; J Betjeman-interview, etc.) £6.00

PUNCH. 1955. Jan-June. (4 articles by A Powell; others by Graham Greene, E Waugh, P G Wodehouse(14), R Graves(4), J Mclaren-Ross(6), J Steinbeck(4), J Betjeman(4) & 32 illustrated by R Searle) Bound volume in publisher’s cloth. £20.00

TELEGRAPH SUNDAY MAGAZINE.
7/5/65. (Betjeman - Art belongs to Glasgow - 4pp illus. Mama's Old Stucco House by Tennessee Williams - short story.5pp. Original wraps slightly frayed. £12.00
22/3/74. (Spires Inspired by Sanctity - Keble College,Oxford by John Betjeman.4pp illustrated with photographs by Patrick Ward.) £12.00

THE WIND AND THE RAIN v.3/4. Spring 1947. (Si Kulu Lez' Isiswe trans by R Campbell; J Betjeman, F Berry, A Young, etc.) Tips of spine damagaed. Initials on front wrap otherwise very good. £8.00

NIGHT AND DAY. Ed John MARKS,Graham GREENE & Evelyn WAUGH. A Weekly Magazine of short stories, poems, articles, critical reviews of books, theatre, cinema, etc. Within the compass of these issues can be found a host of promising authors & illustrators who have since achieved considerable reputations:- G Greene -film critic; E Waugh -literary editor - in every issue: A Powell, J Betjeman, C Isherwood, T F Powys, C Connolly, H Miller, A Huxley, C Norden(L Durrell), P Hansford Johnson, V S Pritchett, W Empson, H Read, Stevie Smith, O Lancaster, Ardizzone, N Bentley, E Fraser, R Macaulay, G Kersh, A J Symons, M Roberts, F Prokosch, Topolski, etc. The magazine ceased publication owing to the famous libel action brought by MGM on behalf of Shirley Temple, whom Greene was alleged to have insulted in his review of a film adaptation of Kipling's Wee Willie Winkie.

No.1-26 July-Dec 1937. 26 issues,all published,of this scarce periodical in original wraps,all very good. £1600.00 No.1-26 July-Dec 1937. 26 issues,all published,of this scarce periodical in original wraps,no.1 being stained,the rest in good condition although one or two are frayed. £1200.00
No.1-13 July-Sep 1937. Bound volume with original wraps bound in. £500.00

NIGHT AND DAY.No.3. (J Betjeman, J Struther, N Balchin.) Slight staining at bottom of few pages,text not affected. £25.00

NIGHT AND DAY No.9. (J Betjeman, A Bell, P Hansford Johnson..) £30.00

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SIR JOHN BETJEMAN. 1974. A Bibliography by Margaret L STAPLETON. Inscribed presentation copy signed "D" to Timothy (D'Arch Smith) "with thanks for everything & with an enormous sigh of relief." No dw issued. £25.00