Accession number
PML 197688
Creator
Larkin, Philip.
Published
[Belfast] : [The author], 1951.
Credit line
Purchased on the Kenneth A. Lohf Fund, 2017.
Notes
Cover title.
The author's second book of poetry, self-published in an edition of 100 copies.
Library's copy includes a typewritten invoice from the author in the amount of 3s 0d, dated 18 June 1954, and a large stamped envelope, postmarked 20 June 1954, Belfast, both addressed to Graham Bury Esq, Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Larkin gives his address on the typewritten invoice as Flat 13, 30 Elmwood Avenue, Belfast.
Printed for the author by Carswells of Belfast.
The author's second book of poetry, self-published in an edition of 100 copies.
Library's copy includes a typewritten invoice from the author in the amount of 3s 0d, dated 18 June 1954, and a large stamped envelope, postmarked 20 June 1954, Belfast, both addressed to Graham Bury Esq, Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Larkin gives his address on the typewritten invoice as Flat 13, 30 Elmwood Avenue, Belfast.
Printed for the author by Carswells of Belfast.
Description
20 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm
Provenance
Sold to Graham Bury in 1954 by the author himself; collection of Lewis Reines; anonymous UK collector, his sale Sotheby's (London) 11 July 2017, lot 166.
Binding
Light beige (faded from pale pink?) printed stapled wrappers. Housed in caramel buckram drop-spine box, black leather spine label lettered in gold.
Classification
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