{"title":"New Arrivals","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrowse the latest arrivals to our shelves. Sign up to our mailing list to be the first to hear about recent acquisitions, or get in touch if you have books you'd like to sell.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"larkin-philip-the-north-ship","title":"LARKIN, Philip. The North Ship.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLARKIN, Philip.\u003c\/strong\u003e The North Ship. \u003ci\u003eLondon: The Fortune Press.\u003c\/i\u003e 1945.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. Original black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in dust-jacket; fragile jacket laminated and nicked to edges and corners with areas of loss to upper edge of rear panel (c. 1.5 x 2 cm) and lower spine edge (c. 1 cm); with faintly visible blind stamp to front panel of the wrapper: ‘[Swin]ton \u0026amp; Pendlebury…’, but neither book nor wrapper show signs of library ownership;  a very good copy, the binding firm, cloth and gilt fresh, and contents bright and clean, in a good wrapper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst issue of the poet’s first book, in a sound example of the scarce dust-jacket.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLarkin became a harsh critic of his first book. ‘Looking at the collection today’, he wrote in the introduction he provided for a 1966 Faber reissue, ‘it seems amazing that anyone should have offered to publish it without a cheque in advance and a certain amount of bullying’. Although he was keen to point out the volume’s ‘search for a style’ and clear debts to Auden, Dylan Thomas and, predominantly, Yeats, there are clear signs here of the poet’s own emerging voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBloomfield Ala.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2121576\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sotherans","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63926159114617,"sku":"2121576","price":1000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2121576_1b0c1c27-22a8-42e2-a6b3-c0750e473ccf.jpg?v=1784215378"},{"product_id":"capote-truman-in-cold-blood","title":"CAPOTE, Truman. 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Neil Fujita; pp. [12], 343, [1]; photographic frontispiece and title page printed in brown and black; lightly pushed and faded to spine tips, jacket rubbed and nicked to extremities and folds, with a touch of loss to upper edges of spine folds; a near fine copy in a good jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA smart first impression, in the first issue jacket, of this landmark of modern reportage; one of the great works of post-war American prose.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn 15 November 1959, four members of the Clutter family were murdered in their home in Holcomb, Kansas; a crime that seemed to lack motive and explanation. Capote devoted six years to investigating the murders and their aftermath, producing a work combining meticulous reportage with the methods of fiction to create what he famously called a 'nonfiction novel'. At its centre are portraits of the murderers, Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, the pair portrayed with cool precision. 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Later ousted by the less comprehensive, if more immediately user-friendly edition (still in print), also edited by Thwaite, which presents each of the poet's four published collections as issued, with the uncollected poems in appendices. This edition, however, with dates of composition printed at the foot of each poem (drawn from manuscript notebooks), and an appendix giving the ordering of poems in the published collections, allows the reader to witness the growth of a great poet. Published on 10th October 1988, 11,563 copies of this first impression were printed. 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