Philip Larkin — All What Jazz: A Record Diary 1961-1971
London, Faber and Faber , 1985. Cloth. The revised edition of Philip Larkin's influential reflections and reviews of modern jazz. The second edition. First published in 1970. With the publisher's original dust wrapper, clipped. With a celebrated introduction, in which Larkin reflects on the changes in jazz from the interwar period and its relation to the direction of twentieth-century art overall. Followed by a series of commentaries on a multitude of artists from every period of jazz history. This edition is revised to include Larkin's output from 1961 to 1971. In the original cloth binding. With the original clipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent, with minor bumping to the extremities only. Dust wrapper is sunned to the spine, with marks to the wrap and a couple tide marks to the rear. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.
