![[Signed] Metro-land. Verses by Sir John Betjeman and lithographs by Glynn Boyd Harte. (SIGNED LIMITED EDITION) JOHN BETJEMAN. [Fine] [Hardcover]](https://r.kelkoo.com/resize.php?country=ca&merchantId=100567270&categoryId=5101&trackingId=96985762&width=auto&height=auto&image=https%3A%2F%2Fpictures.abebooks.com%2Finventory%2F31956618213.jpg&sign=tiTgnhNbi_1UQI17hc4HrZ9zAOmIOjFsjC6J1PugcW8-)
First edition, limited to 220 numbered copies signed by both John Betjeman and Glynn Boyd Harte (this being #131). Landscape 8vo. Unpaginated. White cloth with an in-set lithographic title plate. Delightfully illustrated with a frontispiece and fourteen superb lithographic colour plates printed at the Curwen Press on mould-made paper, each with a tissue-guard protector and accompanied by a Betjeman verse. In fine state with the original clothbound solander case, lettered in gold and with a blind-stamped title design. Scarce and very desirable. The first bookform publication of the verses Betjeman wrote to accompany Edward Mirzoeff's celebrated 1973 documentary film of the same name celebrating suburban life in the area to the north-west of London around the Metropolitan Railway. Widely considered Betjeman's greatest on-screen achievement.
