Author: JOHN BETJEMAN
Title: Continual Dew. A Little Book of Bourgeois Verse. With drawings and an elaborate cover-design by Osbert Lancaster.
Description: John Murray, London, 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 45pp. Black cloth, lavishly lettered and decorated in gold at the upper board. All edges gilt. Binding slightly cocked and covers just a little marked and handled in places. Quite a good, bright copy. The front panel and flap of the attractive McKnight Kauffer-designed dust wrapper has been tipped-in to the front endpapers. Betjeman's fifth book, and second collection of verse, comprising thirty-three poems, eighteen of which appear here in bookform for the first time. The author's note includes a deliberate error, thanking "Mr. C.S.Lewis for the fact on page 256" (the volume runs to only 45 pages). Peterson A5. Good/Poor.

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