Buy this book on-line ANTHOLOGY. (Philip Larkin interest) : Springtime. An Anthology of Young Poets and Writers. Edited by G.S.Fraser and Iain FletcherPeter Owen Limited, London, 1953
First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 136pp. Maroon cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Tiny dealer plate to the base of the front pastedown, with a touch of offset browning to the adjacent free endpaper. Very good indeed in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, tanned at the spine panel with a touch more light tanning to the margins of the front and rear panels, a little edgeworn and with to quite short at-one-time internally repaired tears. An important anthology which includes early contributions from Philip Larkin (his first anthology appearance, here with six of his 'XX Poems'), Kingsley Amis (his poems 'On Staying Still' and 'A Dream of Fair Women'), Donald Davie (his hitherto unprinted poems 'Thyestes' and 'Creon's Mouse'), Thom Gunn (his poems 'A Mirror for Poets', 'Helen's Rope' and 'Carnal Knowledge'), Elizabeth Jennings, A.Alvarez, Thomas Blackburn, Ithell Colquhoun, Norman McCaig (sic) and many others. Each of the contributions is preceded by a brief and not always entirely accurate biographical and bibliographical summary. Bloomfield L1 / Wright B2.. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Good Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of ANTHOLOGY. (Philip Larkin interest) : Springtime. An Anthology of Young Poets and Writers. Edited by G.S.Fraser and Iain Fletcher. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including out of print books, livres illustrées, libri antichi, out-of-print books and atlases. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |