Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1943

Small 8vo, pp. 64. Original dark blue stiff paper wrappers, title label to front panel. Unopened, leading and lower edges uncut. A fine copy.

First edition. One of 500 copies.

Larkin contributes A Stone Church Damaged by a Bomb. Other contributors include Michael Hamburger, Michael Meyer, Roy Porter and John Heath-Stubbs.

An early appearance in print by Larkin, two years before the publication of his first collection, The North Ship.