POOR MONKEY: The Child in Literature.

First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Peter Coveney to Brynmor Jones and accompanied with a short note to Jones on Coveney's headed notepaper loosely laid in. Original red cloth lettered in gilt to the spine. Lacking the dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout. The cloth is a little dusty, the gilt a touch muted.

Inscribed by the author in black ink to the front free endpaper "To Dr. Brynmor Jones / with all good wishes, / from / Peter Coveney / 21. xi. 57." After a spell as a schoolteacher, Peter Coveney (1924-2007) moved to Hull in 1955 where (as well as Brynmor Jones) he met Philip Larkin, with whom he remained in contact until the poet's died thirty years later. In 1962, Coveney was founding warden of Lincoln Hall at the University of Nottingham and later joined the University's History Department. Larkin's letters to Coveney, as well as letters from Monica Jones to Coveney and his wife, are held at the University of Nottingham (Manuscripts and Special Collections). Sir Brynmor Jones (1903–1989), was born in North Wales and educated at University College of Wales at Bangor and at St John's College, Cambridge. In 1947 he became a professor chair at University College, where he later became Dean of Science, Deputy Principal. When the college achieved full university status in 1954, he became iPro-Vice-Chancellor and, in 1956, Vice-Chancellor. The expanded University of Hull Library, famously presided over by the poet, Philip Larkin, was named after Jones in 1967.