HIGH WINDOWS

Third impression of the first edition. Signed by the author. Publisher's original light grey cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. An excellent fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and gilt sharp and bright, the contents clean throughout. Complete with the fine, unclipped dustwrapper (£1.65 net to the front flap).

Signed by Philip Larkin in black ink on The front flap of 'High Windows' 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 slim volumes. 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. This third impression was published in an edition of 6,000 copies in January 1975. (Bloomfield A10a).