PHILIP LARKIN — contributes ten poems - all here making their first appearance in print - to the anthology Poetry from Oxford in Wartime. Edited by William Bell.

Fortune Press, London, 1st Edition, First edition, first state (smooth-weave cloth). Slim 8vo. 94pp + [ii] advertisements. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Cloth lightly marked in one to two places at the rear board, and with just a hint of spotting to the edges, endpapers and to several leaf margins. A number of leaves uncut. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, tanned at the spine panel and with a touch of further tanning to the front and rear panel edges, and with two small portions of loss to the spine ends. Contemporary former owner gift inscription inked to the front free endpaper. Larkin's second mature appearance in print. See Bloomfield (2002) B2, who estimates a print run of no more than 500 copies., Very Good, Good