Houghton Mifflin Company, 1959. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1959. First Edition. 279 pages. Dust jacket over orange cloth. Slight bending to first few pages. Light foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Mild staining to gutters; heavier to hinges. Binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has light tanning with soft crushing to ends. Unclipped dust jacket is in separate pieces with moderate rubbing, chipping and tearing to edges. Moderate tanning and scuffing overall. Missing front flap.

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Bookseller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1699628040CAB
Title: John Betjeman's Collected Poems
Author: John Betjeman
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good/Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Date Published: 1959

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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...
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...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Text Block: Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...