Pringle Roger Ed (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Nick to the fore edge of page 37-38 o/w clean, unmarked copy with firm hinges, sharp corners. DJ bright, sharp with very light wear to corners, closed teat to top edge, rear. Handsome copy. BP/Poetry/Anthology.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Tiny prev owner's name in very top corner of ffep. Small tear at top of dust jacket front.

First edition, number 4 of 75 copies signed by the 22 contributing poets, from a total edition of 350. The signatories include Stephen Spender, Elizabeth Jennings, Philip Larkin, and Betjeman's successor as poet laureate, Ted Hughes. Of the twenty-two poems included, all but two appear here in print for the first time. The collection was kept as a surprise from Betjeman until a copy was presented to him by Pringle, the press's founder, accompanied by many of the poets involved. The party allegedly arrived unannounced at Betjeman's house with bottles of champagne and smoked salmon sandwiches. Pringle also organized "A Ring of Bells For John Betjeman", a reading of Betjeman's poems by Prunella Scales and Timothy West during the Stratford-upon-Avon Poetry Festival. Quarto. Title page engraving by Miriam Macgregor. Original quarter black buckram, spine lettered in gilt, red marbled paper-covered boards, dark red endpapers, top edge red, others untrimmed. Housed in publisher's black buckram slipcase, paper label printed in red on front panel. Fine copy in a fine slipcase.