HIGH WINDOWS

First edition, first printing. Original light grey cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and gilt bright, with very light rubbing at the spine tips and corners. The contents, with a little faint toning to the margins, are otherwise clean throughout and without the spots and marks that often affect this book. Complete with lightly rubbed and toned dustwrapper that remains without loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£1.40 on the front flap)

The front flap of 'High Windows', the poet's final collection, states simply that "No introduction is necessary to this new collection of poems by Philip Larkin. It is his first since 'The Whitsun Weddings' (1964)". It is perhaps the finest, and certainly the darkest, of Larkin's four collections. The first edition was published on 3rd June 1974 in an edition of 6,142 copies which, according to Charles Monteith, sold out in three weeks, a record, in Faber's experience, for a cased volume of new verse. (Bloomfield A10a).