***'This volume, containing a selection of poems written since 1945, establishes Philip Larkin as one of the foremost English poets of the post-war years. ***Contents: Lines on a Young Lady's Photograph Album, Wedding-Wind, Places, Loved Ones, Coming, Reasons for Attendance, Dry-Point, Next, Please, Going, Wants, Maiden Name, Born Yesterday, Whatever Happened?, No Road, Wires, Church Going, Age, Myxomatosis, Toads, Poetry of Departures, Triple Time, Spring, Deceptions, I Remember, I Remember, Absences, Latest Face, If, My Darling, Skin, Arrivals, Departures, At Grass. Small nicks to the edges of the dustwrapper at the folds. Slight creasing and loss to the top and tail of the spine of the dustwrapper, which is faded as usual to a light brownish colour. ***In a very good salmon-pink printed dustwrapper, that has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 10/6 net. Small ownership name to top of front free endpaper. ***Near fine in brushed olive-green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The second edition was the wrappers issue, published in February 1956, and the third edition was a hardback printing published in July 1956.
Fourth edition published in January 1958, just three years after the first edition, which was published in October 1955.
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