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London : Faber & Faber, (1964). First edition. A celebrated collection of thirty-two poems and one of the high points of twentieth-century poetry. “The poems were written in or near Hull, Yorkshire, with a succession of Royal Sovereign 2B pencils during the years 1955 to 1963” (Philip Larkin).
Demy 8vo (23cm). (46),[ii]pp. Original purple cloth, lettered down spine in gilt; a couple of tiny spots and two small numeric stamps to front endpaper, but otherwise a very good copy in the dust-jacket – a design in stone, green, red and black – also very good indeed. Bloomfield A7a.

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London : Faber & Faber, (2002). First edition. Larkin’s original ambition was to be a novelist and the present volume gathers together his early fiction for girls written under the pseudonym “Brunette Coleman”, as well as unpublished drafts of two unfinished novels, “No for an Answer” and “A New World Symphony”, and further similar material. Edited by James Booth.
Demy 8vo (23cm). xlvi,498pp. Original blue boards, lettered in white; text very lightly tanned as usual, but a very good copy in a very good dust-jacket.

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