LARKIN, Philip. High Windows. London: Faber and Faber. 1974.
8vo. Original light grey cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dustwrapper priced £1.40 net to front flap; pp. [3]-42; light offsetting and spotting to front pastedown and endpapers, wrapper a touch rubbed to upper outer corner and a little creased to upper spine tip, spotting to inner flap and verso of wrapper (recto clean and bright); a near fine copy in a very good wrapper.
A sharp first printing of the last, and perhaps the greatest, of Larkin's four collections.
The front flap of High Windows states simply that 'No introduction is necessary to this new collection of poems by Philip Larkin. It is his first since The Whitsun Weddings (1964)'. The final, finest – and darkest – of the poet’s four slim volumes, the first printing was published on 3rd June 1974 in an edition of 6,142 copies. According to Charles Monteith at Faber, it sold out in three weeks, a record, in the firm’s history, for a cased volume of new verse.
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