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BETJEMAN, John (1906-84). A Nip in the Air, [London:] John Murray 1974. 8°, half title, title printed in red and black. Original sunflower yellow buckram, spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut. NUMBER 67 OF 175 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. With 13 other books including W. B. Yeats' A Selection from the Poetry (Lepizig, Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1913, RARE), Rudyard Kipling's Verse. Inclusive Edition 1885-1918 (New York, 1919, NUMBER 66 OF 250 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR), Richard Hughes's The Spider's Palace (London, 1931, NUMBER 97 OF 110 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR), Osbert Lancaster's Classical Landscape with Figures (London, 1947, ONE OF 100 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, with a presentation inscription from the publisher, John Murray , James Watson's Rules and Directions to be Observed in Printing-houses (Edinburgh, The Black Pennell Press, 1988, NUMBER 25 OF 200 COPIES) and 4 other books printed at The Black Pennell Press. (14)