Philip Larkin - Collected Poems by Philip Larkin

Marvell Press and Faber and Faber, 1988. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 5x1x8. Very mild shelf wear. DJ in excellent condition. Interior unmarked.

Hardback. Acceptable.

Hardback. Good.

Hardback. Very Good.

Marvell Press and Faber & Faber, 1988. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 1st UK Edition. Near fine hardcover in a very good or better jacket. FFEP is inscribed by previous owner, author John Metcalf. Jacket appears to have some very minor rubbing and a light crease at the upper right corner, which is in fact, a crease to the brodart, not jacket itself. A very nice copy!

FABER & Faber, 1988. Book. Fine. Hardcover. FIRST. A FINE FIRST IN DJ..

London ; Boston : Marvell Press and Faber and Faber, 1988. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very good cloth copy in an edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; xxvii, 330 pages ; 23 cm. Notes; Title page verso. Includes indexes. Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-320). Contents; Poems, 1946-83 -- Early poems, 1938-45. Subjects; Larkin, Philip. 1900-1999. English poetry 20th century. English poetry. Poetry in English, 1945- - Texts.

London: Faber & Faber, 1988. 1st (3rd imp). h/b. Very good, 1st edition (3rd impression, pub same year), clipped d/j, brown clothbound boards, white spine titling; text block firm, pages crisp and unmarked. Loose insert leaflet: Philip Larkin at the University of Hull. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). In 1988, three years after Larkin's death, this 390-page omnibus was published under a shared Faber/Marvell imprint, edited by Larkin's friend and executor, Anthony Thwaite. It aimed to include all the poems finished by Larkin as an adult, plus a selection of verses from his teens. Containing no fewer than 83 previously unpublished poems, it added greatly to what had been previously known of his work. In 2003, Thwaite published a more concise (218-page) ÒCollected PoemsÓ, which included only work Larkin had published in his lifetime, omitting such revealing poems as Love Again: purchasers of this volume, in order to acquire LarkinÕs full canon, needed to supplement it with the 2005-published extended… Read More

Marvell / Faber, 1988. ~No ownership marks. Dustwrapper very slightly faded on spine but unclipped. ~Robust packaging. Overseas tracking available on request. . 1st edn, 1st impr. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. xxviii, 330pp. Binding sound, text unmarked.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.