Books

The North Ship, first edition, super copy in original black boards, gilt titling, dust-jacket price-clipped, spine supplied in excellent facsimile, neat repairs and restorations to joints and foot of upper panel with slight show-through, an excellent example overall, 8vo, The Fortune Press, 1945. A very presentable example of Larkin's first published collection of poetry, one of fewer than 500 copies.

'The North Ship' is Larkin's first poetry collection, originally published in 1945 and including revised editions in the following years. It indicates the early exploration of his major themes and stylistic approach.