Lot 553
Larkin, Philip
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
£2,000
Description
XX Poems. [Belfast: Privately Printed by Carswels], 1951. First edition, 4to, [one of 100 copies], original pale pink printed wrappers, some light browning to wrappers, short split at foot of spine, [Bloomfield A4]
Footnote
Note: Larkin's fourth book and second book of poems, privately printed in an edition of only 100 copies. Most of the copies were sent by the author to prominent literary figures who generally did not acknowledge receipt.