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Hardcover in very good condition, with unclipped dust jacket in good condition. Jacket is lightly scuffed, scored and sunned. and edges are creased and nicked. A few light spots of foxing noted on the page block. Boards are clean and pages are clear throughout. LW
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Philip Larkin ponders ordinary lives in his poems: a Saturday show; travelling salesmen; young love. At the seaside "Everything crowds under the low horizon: / Steep beach, blue water, towels, read bathing caps, / The small hushed waves' repeated fresh collapse / Up the warm yellow sand". There's an almost Shakespearian obsession with ageing and passing time in the poems collected in High Windows. "What do they think has happened, the old fools, to make them like this?...Why aren't they screaming?" Larkin asks of the elderly. His answer: "Well, we shall find out." In the titular poem he watches young lovers and wonders "if anyone looked at me, forty years back, and thought, That'll be the life". But it's hard to see into the future or the past: you have to strain, as if looking through a high window, and even then you may only get a glimpse of light through the "sun-comprehending glass."
High Windows was first published in 1974 and some critics disliked Larkin's work for its lack of experiment and familiar subject matter. Yet even at its most traditional, Larkin's writing can be striking as, in "This Be The Verse", it encapsulates prosaic truths with plain language and gentle wit:
They fuck you up, your mum and dad.--Tamsin Todd
They may not mean to but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.
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Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,300grams, ISBN:0571105521. Seller Inventory # 4124470
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Condition: Very Good. 1976. hardcover. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, previous owner's name on ffep, tanned pages, remains very good. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # KTS0047697
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover in very good condition, with unclipped jacket in good condition. First edition. Edgewear and slight tanning to the jacket. The jacket spine ends are creased, more so on the head which is nicked, with peeling laminate. The binding remains sound and all text is clear. CM. Used. Seller Inventory # 624573
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. UK hardback first impression. VG with some spots to prelims and previous owner details to ffep. The jacket is VG, unclipped with some toning. Seller Inventory # ABE-1774729166519
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Parchment coloured cloth with gilt titles to spine in grey and white dustjacket. A little wear to top edge of dj and small bookseller's label to front pastedown otherwise a near fine copy. Seller Inventory # 006660
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Owner's name on ffep. Extensive note on poem on page 17 lightly in pencil and two short biro marks on pages 24 and 25 beside a stanza. Otherwise in excellent condition. Seller Inventory # 003606
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