HIGH WINDOWS

First edition, first printing. Original light grey cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents, lightly spotted to the endpapers, are otherwise clean througout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with bright, lightly creased dustwrapper that is without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£1.40 on the front flap)

The front flap of 'High Windows', the poet's final collection, states simply that "No introduction is necessary to this new collection of poems by Philip Larkin. It is his first since 'The Whitsun Weddings' (1964)". It is perhaps the finest, and certainly the darkest, of Larkin's four collections. The first edition was published on 3rd June 1974 in an edition of 6,142 copies which, according to Charles Monteith, sold out in three weeks, a record, in Faber's experience, for a cased volume of new verse. (Bloomfield A10a).