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$25.00Stockport: Phoenix (1973/4). Autumn & Winter. 192 pp. Offsetting to two leaves, else near fine in illustrated wrappers with a light corner crease to rear cover. In addition to critical essays, a new poem by Larkin, “Money,” appears here along with worksheets for “At Grass.” Bloomfield 429.1. -
$25.00London: Critical Quarterly (nd). 22 pp. About fine in stapled wrappers. Larkin contributes four poems, including THE WHITSUN WEDDING. Other poets represented are Thom Gunn, R.S. Thomas, and Ted Hughes. The editors' selection for “the best poems written since 1950.”
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$20.00London: Critical Quarterly, 1961. Winter. [94 pp]. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Larkin contributes his poem “Breadfruit.” Bloomfield C152.
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$20.00Norwich & Manchester: Critical Quarterly, 1968. Spring and Summer. 199 pp. Very good plus in printed wrappers. Larkin’s poem “High Windows” in good company. Bloomfield C307.1.
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$25.00Hull: Critical Quarterly (1960). First edition. 24 pp. Very good plus in stapled wrappers. Collects Larkin’s “At Grass,” along with work by Kingsley Amis, Donald Davie, Thom Gunn, Ted Hughes, Christopher Logue, Sylvia Plath, and many others. Bloomfield B5.
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$75.00Hull: Critical Quarterly (1960). First edition. 24 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Collects Larkin’s “At Grass,” along with work by Kingsley Amis, Donald Davie, Thom Gunn, Ted Hughes, Christopher Logue, Sylvia Plath, and many others. Bloomfield B5.
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$20.00London: Critical Quarterly, 1959. Winter. [94 pp]. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Larkin reviews a book by John Press. Bloomfield C114.
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$35.00Hull: Humberside, 1956. Autumn. 44 pp. Toning along spine, and a small stain to front cover, else very good plus in stapled wrappers. Larkin’s “The Importance of Elsewhere” poem. Bloomfield C65.
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$35.00Hull: Humberside, 1958. Autumn. 48 pp. Light sunning along spine, else near fine in stapled wrappers. Larkin’s twelve line poem “Modesties.” Bloomfield C94.
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$20.00Antrim: Greystone Books (1991). Third edition. ix + 160 pp w/glossary. Faint sunning to spine, else fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Larkin contributes a three page foreword. Bloomfield B17 (note).
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$45.00London: Enitharmon Press 1982. First edition. 39 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. One of 200 copies. Larkin contributes his poem, “Dear Charles,.” Also prints poems by George Barker, David Gascoyne, P.J. Kavanagh, Seamus Heaney, Kathleen Raine, Ted Hughes, and several others. Halliwell 104. Bloomfield B29.
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$25.00Hessle: Listen/Marvell Press, 1960. Spring. 50 pp. Small snag to top edge of front cover, else near fine in stapled wrappers. Larkin’s poem “Before Tea” appears. Bloomfield C121.
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$25.00Hessle: Listen, 1954. Winter. 24 pp. Some light foxing to extrems, else near fine in stapled wrappers. Prints Larkin’s poem, “Poetry of Departures.” Bloomfield C46.
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$35.00Hessle: Listen, 1954. Summer. 28 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Larkin’s “Toads.” Bloomfield C42.
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$25.00Hessle: Listen/Marvell Press, 1959. Spring. 29 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Prints Larkin’s essay, “Betjeman En Bloc.” Bloomfield C103.
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$25.00Hessle: Listen/Marvell Press, 1958. Spring. 28 pp. Faint toning along spine, else very near fine in stapled wrappers. Presents Larkin’s poem, “The Importance of Elsewhere.” Bloomfield C87.
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$35.00Manchester: Carcanet (1989). First edition. 208 pp. Some light offsetting to front free endpaper, else very near fine in like dust jacket.
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$35.00NY: The Poetry and Drama Magazine (1958). 24 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. The issue concludes with two Larkin poems, “Days” and “Water.” Bloomfield C89.
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$35.00London: Poetry Society (1983). 72 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. A new poem by Larkin, “Party Politics” begins this special issue on “Alcohol and Poetry.” Bloomfield C513.
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$25.00Bangor: Bangor, 1969. Spring. 66 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Larkin contributes an essay on Vernon Watkins. Bloomfield C335.
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$25.00London: Chatto & Windus, 1956. May. 95 pp. Inked ownership initials, foxing along top edge, else near fine in printed wrappers. Larkin’s “An Arundel Tomb” is collected in a special “Young English Poets” section. Bloomfield C58.
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$75.00London: Gollancz, 1979. First edition. 160 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Two page foreword by Philip Larkin. Bloomfield B20. -
$40.00London: Faber and Faber (1993). First edition. xx + 570 pp w/index. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
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$35.00Abington & NY: Routledge (2010). Second edition, first “Routledge Revival” printing. 92 pp w/notes & bibliography. Fine in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued.
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$12.50London & NY: Methuen (1982). First edition. 92 pp w/notes & bibliography. Near fine in printed wrappers.
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$25.00London: Faber & Faber (1970). First edition. 105 pp. Foxing to top edge and endpapers, else very good plus in like dust jacket. Larkin contributes, “Vernon Watkins: an Encounter and a Re-encounter.” Also tributes by R.S. Thomas, Kathleen Raine, Marianne Moore, George Barker, and several others. Bloomfield B8.
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$20.00Coventry: Tracks, 1967. Summer. 48 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Presents a six page “conversation” with Larkin. Bloomfield E10.
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$25.00Bristol: Redcliffe (1983). First printing of this edition (originally published in 1934). 147 pp. Top edge a little dusty, else very near fine in near fine dust jacket with light sunning to spine. Larkin contributes a six page introduction. Bloomfield B31.
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$12.50Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, (1989). First edition. 156 pp w/index. Faint foxing along top edge, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with lightly sunned spine. Follows the posthumous publication of Larkin's COLLECTED POEMS in the same year.
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$25.00London: Virago (1996). First edition. 252 pp. A few light wrinkles to covers, else near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Larkin is fictionalized in this novel as “Rollo Jute.” Strang and Larkin had an affair while Larkin was a librarian at Queens University. The novel itself was rejected by Charles Monteith of Faber & Faber, as he felt it slandered his friends.
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$30.00London: Faber & Faber (1962). First edition. 148 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Contributions by Kingsley Amis, Robert Conquest, Alan Bennett, Clive James, Seamus Heaney, and many others. Illustrated with a dozen b&w photographs.
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$20.00Hull: University of Hull Press (1997). First trade paperback printing. 197 pp w/notes & index. Previous owner’s inked name and date to the first leaf, else very good plus in illustrated wrappers.