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Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First American edition. Cloth 8vo. Lacking the original dustwrapper. 45 pp. First American edition of this early book of poems by Larkin. Spine a bit toned with age, else a handsome copy in rose-colored cloth covers lettered in gold and with silver devices.
Published by St. Martin's Press
Seller: FITZ BOOKS AND WAFFLES, Buffalo, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. No marks. Moderate wear to jacket. Some chipping to jacket at top of spine. Tight binding. No wear to clothbound. First American edition. Second printing.
Published by St. Martin's Press, New York, 1960
Seller: Yes Books, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Thread Binding. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Missing pieces of dust jacket on spine and panels.Hinges and folds of dj distressed. Discoloration and some stain spots. Otherwise this book is in very good condition.First edition. 45 pages.
Condition: Good. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. 1st US edition. Owner's name on pastedown. Writing and underlining inside. (poetry).
Published by St. Martin's Press, New York, 1960
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: VG+. First Edition. 45 pages in very good condition. Burgundy endpapers. Previous owner's name on the ffep. Red hardcovers with gilt titles. Spine and top edges a little faded. Light wear on corners and edges. No dust jacket. VG+ Size: 5 1/2 x 8 1/2.
Published by St. Martins Press, New York, 1960
Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First American edition. 8vo, 45pp; red cloth. One of 1131 copies. Bloomfield A6b. Neat ownership signature, dated 1960; paper clip impression to a few pages at upper margins, else very good in a slightly marked dust jacket with a bit fading to spine.
Published by The Marvell Press, [Hessle, East Yorkshire], 1955
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition, first printing with the misprint 'floor' for 'sea' on p.38; rounded spine therefore the second state binding. 43, [2, list of subscribers] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bloomfield A6a Green cloth boards. Spine a bit faded. A very good copy without original dust jacket 43, [2, list of subscribers] pp. 1 vols. 8vo First edition, first printing with the misprint 'floor' for 'sea' on p.38; rounded spine therefore the second state binding.
Published by The Marvell Press, 1955
Seller: Setanta Books, Richmond, SURRE, United Kingdom
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition first impression paperback with dust jacket from 1955 in VG++ condition there is some very minor creasing to the top corner of first few pages, no internal markings, the jacket has some minor scuffing, now in removable protective sleeve, please see pics, paypal accepted, any questions please get in touch.
Published by Marvell Press, [Hessle], [1955], 1955
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
First Edition
8vo., First Edition thus, neat contemporary signature on half-title, later signature on front wrapper inner; yapped edges, a very good, bright, crisp copy in unclipped, faintly age-soiled dustwrapper. This is the first paperback edition [denoted by Bloomfield the 'second impression'], one of 1320 copies with a) type reset; b) the misprint 'floor' for 'sea' on p.38 corrected; c) the list of subscribers omitted. Bloomfield A6 (and see p.22).
Published by The Marvell Press, Hessle. 1955 [i.e. 1956], 1955
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
First Edition
The first paperback edition (denoted by Bloomfield the ''second edition''). Plain wrappers. Octavo. 43 pages. One of 1320 copies. The type was reset for this issue. The misprint on page 38 was corrected and the list of subscribers before publication dropped. There were three other minor changes. There is no indication on the verso of the title-page that this is a new edition. Twenty-nine poems.Very near fine in near-fine dustwrapper slightly faded at the spine and a bit nicked and creased at top edge.
Published by Hessle The Marvell Press 1955, 1955
Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
A first paperback edition. Bound in plain wrappers. One of 1320 copies. The type was reset for this issue. The misprint on page 38 was corrected and the list of subscribers before publication dropped. There were three other minor changes. There is no indication on the verso of the title-page that this is a new edition. Twenty-nine poems. Very good in near-fine dustwrapper slightly faded at the spine and a bit nicked and creased.
Published by Fortune Press 1955 [1956], East Yorkshire, 1955
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. First UK edition, second impression. Card covers in purple printed dust jacket. 43 pp. This book has a complicated bibliographic history: this reset edition was from August 1956, the first impression in cloth was in Nov. 1955, both at 6s. Spine sunned, light wear to the top edge, but an easily very good of an important mid-century volume. Bloomfield A6 (second impression).
Published by The Marvell Press, Hessle, 1955
Seller: Any Amount of Books, London, United Kingdom
First Edition
8vo. pp 43, [2]. Pink paper dust jacket lettered black with floral motif border. Original publisher's green buckram cloth with gilt lettering at spine. First edition, 2nd state with a rounded spine and price label (reading 7s 6d nett) to the front dust jacket flap. Pages toned, light toned offsetting at endpapers, some light spots throughout and heavier at top edge, spine ends and corners bumped, boards slightly faded, else binding firm. Good+ in faded, slightly edgeworn with shallow tears and chips at head of spine, good+ dust jacket.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. First Edition, first issue with the flat spine. The misprint "floor" for "sea" in the first line of the poem 'Absences'. Slim 8vo. 43pp + [ii] list of subscribers. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Printed on Abbey Mills antique laid paper. Poet Dannie Abse's copy, with his inked ownership signature to the front free endpaper. Damp marking to the corners of the boards. Free endpapers lightly browned. A good copy in dust wrapper, with the price 6/- nett printed to the base of the front panel, as required for this first state. The wrapper split into two parts and with about half of the spine panel now absent. A respectable copy of the author's third major collection of verse. The first edition comprised a total of 700 copies, and just 300 of those were initially bound. This first issue sold out swiftly and the remaining 400 were then bound, these later examples produced with rounded spines and so easily identifiable as the second issue. Both the first and second issue are now most uncommon, but this first issue somewhat more so. Bloomfield A6.
First edition, first issue, first binding. Fore-edge slightly thumb-marked and spotted, neat contemporary ownership inscription to front pastedown, else a very good copy in slightly worn dust jacket, slightly chipped at head and tail, with a further chip to upper right-hand corner of rear panel, and a tear to the lower half of the front fold of the jacket (invisible when the jacket is inside a 'jacket protector'). Seven hundred copies were printed of the first edition, of which three hundred were bound with a flat spine. Bloomfield A6.
Published by The Marvell Press, Hessle., 1955
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
First Edition
First edition. First impression with the misprint ''floor'' for ''sea'' in the first line of the poem on page 38. Second issue with round spine and a later price sticker mounted over the original price on the upper flap. The second issue comprised fewer than 700 copies, probably fewer than 500 copies. Octavo. pp 43, [2]. Twenty-nine poems. List of subscribers before publication printed at the rear.Free endpapers very faintly tanned. Covers very slightly bumped at corners. Near fine in very good indeed, very slightly nicked dustwrapper slightly faded at the spine and with a small chip at bottom corner of rear panel.
Inscribed by Ann Thwaite, whose husband Anthony - Larkin's great friend and the editor of his letters - was one of the original subscribers listed at the rear. First edition, first issue - one of 300 copies bound from a total impression of 700 - this copy with a rounded spine. Barry Bloomfield was a very nice man and an excellent bibliographer but his description of this (A6) appears to contradict itself: he notes that "A later binding has no strip of stiffening mull inserted" - implying a flat, rather than a rounded spine - but also that "The early copies . . . are bound with flat spines". I have seen copies of the stated "second edition" (which is, in fact, the second issue of the first impression, being the 400 copies bound after the first 300 had been sold) with both flat and rounded spines. While I'm at it, another dubious point suggests that only the 120 `subscribers' copies' has the list of those individuals on pp. [44-45] at the rear - whereas it appears to be common to the whole impression of 700 copies. Dustwrapper deeply price-clipped and missing tiny chips from extremities of spine else a nice copy.