EARLY POEMS AND JUVENILIA

First edition, first printing. Original black paper-covered boards lettered in white to the spine, in the dustwrapper showing a photo of a teenage Larkin. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout. In the fine dustwrapper. Not price-clipped (£25.00 to the front flap).

Drawing on home-made pamphlets, manuscripts and workbooks dating from 1938 to 1946, this collection of over 250 of Larkin's early poems, most published here for the first time, offers a fascinating insight into the gradual formation of the poet's unmistakable voice.