Castleford: Yorkshire Art Circus, 1987. Limited edition, one of 100 copies illustrated by this artist, and one of 800 copies overall, 8vo., pp.21,(i), quarter green cloth, gilt, marbled boards with printed paper title label, 6 tipped in b/w plates; with loose advertisement for the publication, and invitation to the accompanying exhibition, a fine copy.

Shannon: Irish University Press/T.M. MacGlinchey, 1970. Facsimile reprint of the Cuala Press edition of 1929, 8vo., pp.(iv),38,(i), quarter oatmeal cloth, blue paper-covered boards lettered in black, with plain translucent paper jacket; owner’s neat nameplate to upper margin of front paste-down endpaper, else fine.

London: Faber and Faber, 1957. First edition, 8vo.,pp. 36, paperback; paperback with pictorial wrapper cover, foxing to edges of text block, rubbing and light foxing to extremities of wrapper, small closed tear to rear upper marigin of wrapper, otherwise a very good copy.

London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, Ltd, 1928. First edition, 8vo., pp.176, uncut, pictorial yellow paper-covered boards backed in yellow cloth, design and lettering in black, b/w pictorial title; foxing to edges and margins of boards, occasional foxing within, splash-mark to top-edges, slight splash-marking to spine, a very good copy.

London: Faber and Faber. First edition, 8vo., pp.125, red cloth, gilt, uncut; toning to endpapers, foxing throughout, else a very good copy in a very good dust jacket with a small area of loss to headband, a few chips to extremities, light sunning to spine, and small pencil mark to rear lower margin.

Dacca: Privately published, printed at Monu Press, 1956. Tall 8vo., pp.(iv),120, green cloth, gilt, colour and b/w plates; ownership gift inscription, dated 1956, to front free endpaper, else very good, in unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly worn and torn to extremities, and is now in a protective cover.

London: Faber & Faber, 1939. 8vo., pp.96, hardcover, gilt; ownership signature to front free endpaper, heavy foxing to endpapers, very occasional spots throughout rest of text, lightly toned, slightly sunned to spine, gilt still bright, light rubbing to extremities, a good+ copy, no dust-jacket.

Cardiff: University Of Wales Press, 1990. 8vo.,pp. 232, hardcover, silver lettering, b/w illustrations; some light pencilling to margins, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which has sunning to spine.

Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press Ltd, 1978. 8vo.,pp. xl,327, hardcover, gilt; a very good copy, in a good+ unclipped dust-jacket, which is toned to spine with water marking, rubbing to extremities with light chipping to head and foot of spine and light wear to corners.

Oxford: At the Claredndon Press, 1952. 11 volumes, the set, 8vo., green cloth, gilt lettering with gilt emblems to front boards, b/w frontispieces; light foxing to edges of text block, otherwise near-fine, in mostly price-clipped dust-jackets, with some surface scuff marks and rubbing to extremities, overall a very good set.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969. First edition, 8vo., pp.xxviii, 678, illustrated throughout in b/w, cloth, gilt, with pictorial gilt stamped to spine, minor rubbing to extremities, minor foxing to fore-edges, o/w a very good copy in very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket with minor scuffing in a clear book protector

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. First edition thus, 8vo.,pp. 470, paperback, pictorial title page; light sunning to spine, a very good copy.

Oxford University Press, 1992. 8vo., pp.xx,370, navy hardcover, gilt, b/w plates; very good indeed, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. First edition, 8vo.,pp. xvi,407, yellow cloth, black lettering, b/w frontispiece; foxing to edges of text block, otherwise a very good copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed to extremities.

Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1997. 8vo., pp.xxv,124, paperback; a near fine copy.

Shanghai: A.R. Hager, printed at the Willow Pattern Press, Shanghai, 1938. First edition, 8vo., pp.125, half cream cloth lettered in black, red cloth boards, numerous b/w vignette illustrations to margins, endpaper maps; ownership autographs to front endapers, numerical inscriptions to prelim and end blanks (handwritten dates), partial paper-splitting to head and foot of inner hinges, with the same paper-splitting visible to lower margins (and occasionally upper margins) throughout,48 stitching visible between leaves in a couple of places, darkening and marking to cream cloth, light marking to boards, a sound or good- copy of this scarce title.

London: John Murray, 1970. Third edition (with addition of all poems published in ‘High and Low’), 8vo., pp.xxx,366, green cloth, gilt; a fine copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, which has creasing to rear flap, and rubbing/light chipping to headband. Front free endpaper inscribed in pencil, “To Eric Mascall from the ridiculous author of these verses with fervent affection John Betjeman 1970”. Also includes a letter, written in pencil, from Betjeman to Mascall, thanking him for a copy of the Book of Humourous Verse.

London: Allison and Busby, 1985. First edition, 8vo., pp.64, paperback; ex libris David Moody, with author’s signed presentation inscription to title, a fresh and near-fine copy, with just slight shelfwear to wrappers. Cover design by Joanna Voit.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967. 8vo., pp. lv,217, paperback; foxing and toning to edges of text block, creasing to spine, with closed tear to foot of spine, otherwise a very good copy.