DOOR INTO THE DARK

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. An excellent near fine copy, the binding firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents, with the ownership name of T. J. Diffey (Emeritus Reader in Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sussex where he taught from 1962 until his retirement in 2003; editor of The British Journal of Aesthetics from 1977 to 1994, and author of 'Tolstoy's "What is Art?"' (1985) and The Republic of Art and Other Essays (1991)), hidden by the dustwrapper flap are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the lightly creased dustwrapper that remains without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (15s net to the lower front flap).

An attractive example of the multi-award winning poet's second collection for Faber.