Contributions Larkin Philip (6 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. 68 pp. + 8 black-and-white plates, 8vo, card wrapper. Laid in is a seven-page checklist, "Poetry in the Making: Illustrative Material" and a separate schedule of poetry readings. Very good copy; light wear to wrapper edges, rear panel lightly dust-soiled and with original price crossed out and re-priced in ink; contents and checklist fine.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Illustrated reproducing manuscript material, in holograph facsimile, by Ted Hughes, W.H. Auden, Philip Larkin, and others. Octavo. 68pp. Clothbound issue, only 500 copies issued. S&T B034a.1. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. Laid into the book is 8-page publisher's pamphlet, entitled, 'Poetry in the Making Illustrative Material,' and a mimeographed sheet, listing readings by Ted Hughes, and others [as issued, by Turret Books, for the exhibition]. Includes Ted Hughes' poem "Mountains," and a fragment of "Sort" both reproduced in Hughes' holograph facsimile, from the original manuscript) Also prints biographical sketches, and descriptions of items in the exhibition, including materials by W.H. Auden, Derek Walcott, Dylan Thomas, C. Day Lewis, Philip Larkin, and others. Text includes a two-page preface by C. Day Lewis, and "Operation Manuscript" by Philip Larkin (eight-pages). …

Blue Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. -1949. pp. 40; 48; 55; 80; 92; 78. Larkin poems are Plymouth & Portrait; neither published till the Complete Poems. C.S. Lewis' 3pp poem is Arrangement of Pindar which is an early incarnation of the considerably altered Pindar Sang. Amis contributes 2 poems & writes on Larkin's A Girl in Winter. Valerie Pitt writes on Williams & Meyerstein on Baudelaire. Bowra translates 6 Russian poets also Reverdy by Gascoyne & Lorca by Campbell. 17pp. section of new Australian poets consists entirely of Ern Malley hoax poems*, original work by Angry Penguins editor, Max Harris as well as others by co-founder, Kerr in addition to Malley advocate, Geoffrey Dutton & fence hopper, Alister Kershaw. Sturdy but rudimentary blue cloth binding with maroon gilt-lettered cloth label on spine. Name & date of publication at head of all front wrappers. Heavy book; additional postage required. * This first UK appearance despite McAuley & Stewart's exposure almost immediately upon their Malley poems' first publication in 1944.…

Sole edition. The casebound issue, of which 500 copies were printed. Publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and lemon endpapers. Clear, removable, archival protective sleeve fitted to dust-jacket. Octavo, pp. [1-]9-68. With 'Poetry in the Making Illustrative Material' stapled booklet and a promotional poetry readings notice laid in, both in Fine condition. Illustrated with eight manuscript reproductions including holograph work by Betjeman, Auden, Blunden, Dylan Thomas, Keith Douglas, Edwin Muir, Ted Hughes and Larkin. Single tiny blemish to the top edge, and another to the foredge, else a Fine copy with fractionally chafed and edgeworn dust-jacket which is not price-clipped (showing '25/-'') Includes Larkin's eight-page essay Operation Manuscript. Bloomfield B7.…

First edition, first printing. Signed by the authors. Original dark blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A lovely fine copy, in the fine dustwrapper. Loosely inserted is a 7-page pamphlet entitled Poetry in the Making: Illustrative Material, and an invitation to poetry readings by John Betjeman, Edmund Blunden, Roy Fuller, Ted Hughes, Christopher Logue, George Macbeth and Stevie Smith. One of 126 copies, this being numbered 96 and signed by Philip Larkin, C. Day Lewis, T. C. Skeat and Jenny Lewis. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition, Signed issue. Text includes a two-page preface by C. Day Lewis and "Operation Manuscript" by Philip Larkin (eight-pages). A fine copy in fine dust jacket. One of 100 numbered copies Signed by C. Day Lewis, Philip Larkin, T. C. Skeat, and Jenny Lewis, on the colophon leaf. Signed.…