LARKIN, Philip. The North Ship. London: Fortune Press. 1945.
8vo. Original cloth and red wrapper; pp. 36; wrapper with cellotape repair to rear turn-in, chipping to extremities with portion missing from top of rear panel, sunned to spine, otherwise very good.
First edition. Scarce; fewer than 500 copies were produced. Larkin was later quite dismissive of this, his first collection of poetry, but it established him as a serious new voice in English poetry.
Bloomfield 1a.
First edition.
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