THE MODERN ACADEMIC LIBRARY: ESSAYS IN MEMORY OF PHILIP LARKIN

First edition, first printing. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in dustwrapper. From the library of Professor Edwin Dawes (1925-2023). A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout. Complete with fine dustwrapper. Loosely laid is a letter from Ian Mowat, Larkin's successor at the Brnmor Jones Library, to Eddie Dawes, typed on Library paper, informing him that this copy was ready to be picked up.

Edited by Brian Dyson, Archivist at the University of Hull, all contributors to this volume of essays published in memory of Philip Larkin worked with or for Larkin at the Brynmor Jones Library. The contrubutors are Brenda Moon, Thomas Graham, Peter Hoare, Barry Bloomfield, Lynne Wallace, Brian Dyson, Robert Smeaton, Charles Brook and David Baker. The collection opens with a biographical sketch of Larkin by Maeve Brennan. All royalties from the book went to the Friends of the National Libraries on behalf of the Philip Larkin Memorial Appeal Fund.