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SELECTED POEMS
by BETJEMAN, John
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Good
- Seller
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New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: John Murray, 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Good. Red cloth, printed paper spine label. First edition. Chosen, and with a preface by John Sparrow. Neat contemporary ink inscription on front free flyleaf, else fine in dust jacket with chipping along top edge. Contains old favorites newly revised and several new poems published for the first time in book form. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Second Wind Books LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000014
- Title
- SELECTED POEMS
- Author
- BETJEMAN, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- Oscar Wilde
Terms of Sale
Second Wind Books LLC
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Second Wind Books LLC
Biblio member since 2022
New Haven, Connecticut
About Second Wind Books LLC
Second Wind Books is committed to offering important British and American first editions in the Modernist vein, with an emphasis on books about books, books by and about women and adjacent admirers. Literature, poetry, small and fine press, letters and manuscripts, original artwork, photographs, are what interests us most. Our founder began bookselling under the tutelage of a truly great bookman in 2006, and is now offering that learned expertise in her own shop. Interested in offers of literature from 1900 to 1950, either for sale or to evaluate.
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- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Cloth
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...