RED LANDSCAPES; New and Selected Poems
Bridgend, Wales: Seren, 1999. First U.K. Edition. Paperback. UK First edition with Review slip of US distributor Dufour taped to fep. 125 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers.
Bridgend, Wales: Seren, 1999. First U.K. Edition. Paperback. UK First edition with Review slip of US distributor Dufour taped to fep. 125 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers.
Swinford, Eynsham, Oxon: Fantasy Press, 1953. First Edition. Paperback. Printed salmon wrappers; 8vo. 40 pp. Inscribed by the poet to Bernard Bergonzi. Jennings, like Philip Larkin also associated with the group of Oxford poets known as The Movement, was a librarian. Light soiling and wear, spine a bit wrinkled, with.....
London: Oxford University Press, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. Decorated boards in tissue jacket; small 8vo. 96 pp. A Review copy with slip "With [publisher] Geoffrey Cumberlege's Compliments" laid in. Blue patterned paper boards. Spine slanted, and a touch of foxing to the front edge, still at least very good, in.....
Rushden: Sceptre Press, 1973. First edition. Paperback. Chapbook. Number 5 of 50 copies signed by the poet, of an edition limited to 150 numbered copies; additionally laid in no. 69. Near fine in blue-gray wrappers.
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Revised edition (adding three more years to the diary). Wine-red cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 316 pp. The complete Larkin jazz record reviews. A virtually as new copy.
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1985. First Edition. Paperback. Revised edition (adding three more years to the diary). Uncorrected proof in pink wrappers; 8vo. 312 pp. Rev. slip laid in. The complete Larkin jazz record reviews. Near Fine.
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1989. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket; large 8vo. 339 pp. Index of Titles and First Lines. Edited with an Introduction by Anthony Thwaite. Virtually as new. Fine in like dust jacket.
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1989. First U.S. Edition. Paperback. Gray paper wraps; an uncorrected proof; large 8vo. 330 pp. Index of Titles and First Lines. Edited with an Introduction by Anthony Thwaite. Fine.
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1974. First American edition. Hardcover. Black cloth in jacket; small 8vo. 42 pp. First US printing, with minor changes from the UK edition. Here some of Larkin's most famous poems including "This Be The Verse" and "Annus Mirabilis", with his wry comments on family.....
East Yorkshire: Fortune Press, 1955 [1956]. First Edition. Paperback. First UK edition, second impression. Card covers in purple printed dust jacket. 43 pp. This book has a complicated bibliographic history: this reset edition was from August 1956, the first impression in cloth was in Nov. 1955, both at 6s. Spine.....
London: Fortune Press, 1945 [but 1965]. Second Edition. Hardcover. Dark red buckram lettered in gold, jacket in pale orange and black tall 8vo. 36 pp. One of an estimated 500 copies of an unauthorized edition which was withdrawn when the author learned of its existence (220 could not be sold.....
London: Faber, 1966. Second Edition. Hardcover. Dark blue cloth lettered in gold; 8vo. 48 pp. One of 2000 copies printed in this new edition with an introduction by the author and the addition of one poem. Bloomfield A1c. A fine, bright tight copy in a lightly toned at the spine.....
London: Fortune Press, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Dark blue cloth in dust jacket; 94 pp. Edited by William Bell. 24 poets in this anthology: Larkin contributes 10 poems, all first appearances. Precedes his first book. Bibliographer estimates no more than 500 copies printed. Bloomfield B2. Prev. owner's name: "Denis Corkery".....
London: Fortune Press, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition stated. Black cloth lettered in gold; small 8vo. 36 pp. Mark Schorer's copy with his attractive bookplate (Ruth & Mark Schorer) on the pastedown. One of fewer than 500 copies. Largely unopened, with trace foxing, bookplate glue showing through, trace foxing.....
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1943. First Edition. Paperback. Green wrappers with pasted on label; 12mo. 64 pp. Anthology with three poems by Larkin; his first appearance in a book. One of 500 copies. Among the other 28 contributors John Heath-Stubbs, Roy Porter, and Michael Hamburger. Bloomfield B1. Label lightly foxed, interior.....
Rushden: Sceptre Press, 1973. First edition. Paperback. Chapbook. No 50 of 50 copies signed by the poet of an edition of 150 numbered copies; additionally laid in is no. 139. Bottom tip bumped else fine in brown wrappers.
New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1915. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Purple cloth; small 8vo. 89 pp. Poet's first volume of poetry, fifth book. (First published in the UK in 1913, and preceded by a small number of copies from British sheets with a tipped in title page). Spine faded, top edge.....
New York: Random House, 1929. First Thus. Hardcover. Tan boards with printed paper label; colored patterned end papers; 8vo. 11 pp. Number 545 of 600 copies printed by Pynson Printers; apologia/errata slip laid in. Originally written as an introduction for an inexpensive edition published earlier in the year in Paris.....
Bradford, UK: Red Beck Press, 2004. First Edition. Paperback. Trade paperback original; 8vo. 68 pp. Inscribed by Lucas to a US poet associated with New Formalism; signed "With warm regards, John". The prolific Lucas is a poet, professor, critic etc., as well as the publisher of Shoestring Press. A fine.....
Bradford, UK: Red Beck Press, 1997. First Edition. Paperback. Trade paperback original; 8vo. 57 pp. Inscribed by Lucas to a US poet associated with New Formalism; signed "John" in 1998. The prolific Lucas is a poet, professor, critic etc., as well as the publisher of Shoestring Press. A fine copy.....
Cornwall, UK: Peterloo Poets, 1989. First Edition. Paperback. Trade paperback original; 8vo. 64 pp. Inscribed by Lucas to a US poet associated with New Formalism; signed in full in 1998. The prolific Lucas is a poet, professor, critic etc., as well as the publisher of Shoestring Press; this was his.....
Nottingham, UK: Sow's Ear Press, 2002. First Edition. Paperback. Trade paperback original; 8vo. 158 pp. Inscribed by Lucas to a US poet associated with New Formalism; signed in full in 2004. The prolific Lucas is a poet, professor, critic etc., as well as the publisher of Shoestring Press. A fine.....
Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. First printing, primary binding in navy cloth w/ gilt lettering. 206 pp. Foxed endpapers, lightly mottled else very good, in heavily foxed, but complete dust jacket with only light edgewear (in removable protective archival cover).
London: Macmillan, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Black cloth in dust jacket; small 8vo. 77 pp. British (true first) edition by the popular Scottish author with a taste for innovation, sometimes funny, sometimes grim, sometimes just a delight of quirky experimentation. Edges of jacket lightly worn. Fine in an easily very.....
London: Academy Editions/Macmillan, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Green cloth-backed boards and thin acetate dust jacket; small 8vo. 87 pp. One of 110 numbered copies signed by the author. An attractively made book, very near fine in a very near fine and very fragile dust jacket. A popular poet working in.....