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Lot Closed
July 9, 03:19 PM GTNN
Estimate
800 - 900 GBP
Lot Details
Description
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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