The North Ship
by Larkin Philip
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Westbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
The Fortune Press, 1945. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/Very Good. The North Ship, first edition, super copy in original black boards, gilt titling, dust-jacket price-clipped, spine supplied in excellent facsimile, neat repairs and restorations to joints and foot of upper panel with slight show-through, an excellent example overall, 8vo, The Fortune Press, 1945. A very presentable example of Larkin's first published collection of poetry, one of fewer than 500 copies.
Synopsis
The North Ship, Philip Larkin's earliest volume of verse, was first published in August 1945. The introduction, by Larkin himself, explains the circumstances of its publication and the influences which shaped its contents.
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Details
- Bookseller
- finecopy ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 110402
- Title
- The North Ship
- Author
- Larkin Philip
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Fortune Press, 1945
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finecopy ltd
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Westbury, Wiltshire
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- First Edition
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- Facsimile
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- Gilt
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....