{"product_id":"larkin-philip-high-windows","title":"LARKIN, Philip. High Windows.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLARKIN, Philip.\u003c\/strong\u003e High Windows. \u003ci\u003eLondon: Faber and Faber.\u003c\/i\u003e 1974.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA sharp first printing of the last, and perhaps the greatest, of Larkin's four collections.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe front flap of \u003ci\u003eHigh Windows\u003c\/i\u003e states simply that 'No introduction is necessary to this new collection of poems by Philip Larkin. It is his first since \u003ci\u003eThe Whitsun Weddings\u003c\/i\u003e (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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBloomfield A10a.\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2125748\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sotherans","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63932639674745,"sku":"2125748","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2125748_e4ba69df-dc99-4835-8b70-31c7f62ca04e.jpg?v=1783700872","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/larkin-philip-high-windows","provider":"Sotherans","version":"1.0","type":"link"}