A Nip in the Air.

£375 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

one of 175 copies - signed by the author 'Almost alone among living poets [Betjeman] is in the best sense a committed writer, whose poems spring from what he really feels about real life, and as a result he brings back to poetry a sense of dramatic urgency it had all but lost.' (Philip Larkin, in The Guardian) First edition, number 117 of 175 copies, signed by the author; 8vo; title printed in red black, marbled cockerel endpapers; publisher's yellow buckram, top edge gilt, others uncut,; a fine copy in original acetate dustjacket.

• Binding: Hardcover

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