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[Betjeman], A Garland for the Laureate, with signatures from contributors, 1981

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July 9, 03:19 PM GTNN

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800 - 900 GBP

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BETJEMAN, JOHN.]

A Garland for the Laureate. Poems presented to Sir John Betjeman on his 75th birthday. Stratford upon Avon: the Celandine Press, 1981


large 8vo, ONE OF 75 COPIES SIGNED BY ALL CONTRIBUTORS (out of a total edition of 350 copies, all on mould-made paper by the Whittington Press), title engraving by Miriam Macgregor, preface by the publisher Roger Pringle, original quarter cloth, marbled boards, top edge red, dark red endpapers, original slipcase


The contributors include Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis, Charles Causley, Ted Hughes, R.S. Thomas, Roy Fuller, Anthony Thwaite, Stephen Spender, Dannie Abse and others.



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