Lot 555
Larkin, Philip
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Description
The less deceived. [Hull], Marvell Press, 1955. First edition, one of the first 300 copies with list of subscribers bound in at the end, misprint on p.38 (of "floor" for "sea" on first line of poem) and "6/- nett" on dustwrapper, Charles Monteith [Larkin's editor at Faber]'s copy with signature on free endpaper, original green cloth, dustwrapper, cloth dampstained at head and tail, light dampstaining to front and rear endpapers, dustwrapper worn at head with very slight loss and lightly rubbed
Footnote
Note: The copy of Philip Larkin's editor at Faber & Faber, Charles Monteith, with his signature. Monteith regarded this collection was the catalyst for bringing Larkin to Faber as a poet.