Poetry from Oxford in Wartime.

£120 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

An important collection including ten contributions by Philip Larkin, all of which were included in his debut collection The North Ship published in the same year, alongside poems by Peter Bentley, Paul Haeffner, Gerard Irvine, Francis King and Roy Porter. Provenance: From the library of Orwell scholar and former UCL deputy librarian Ian Angus, with his neat pencilled ownership to the front free endpaper. Angus was the co-editor of Orwell’s Collected Journalism, Essays and Letters published in 1968 and also later contributed to editing the enormous 20-volume edition of Orwell’s Complete Works published 1997-8. A very good copy, dust jacket with browning along edges and spine, some wear to edges, tear to front wrapper. Manuscript note in pencil to ffep.

• Year: 1945

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