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THE LESS DECEIVED: POEMS.
by LARKIN, Philip
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Pages toned, light toned offsetting at endpapers, some light spots throughout and heavier at top edge, spine ends and corners bu
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About This Item
Hessle,, 1955. First Edition, Second State. Hardback. Dust Jacket.. Pages toned, light toned offsetting at endpapers, some light spots throughout and heavier at top edge, spine ends and corners bumped, boards slightly faded, else binding firm. Good+ in faded, slightly edgeworn with shallow tears and chips at head of spine, good+ dust jacket.. 8vo. pp 43, [2]. Pink paper dust jacket lettered black with floral motif border. Original publisher's green buckram cloth with gilt lettering at spine. First edition, 2nd state with a rounded spine and price label (reading 7s 6d nett) to the front dust jacket flap.
Synopsis
Philip Larkin's second collection, The Less Deceived was published by The Marvell Press in 1955, and now appears for the first time in Faber covers. The eye can hardly pick them out From the cold shade they shelter in, Till wind distresses tail and mane; Then one crops grass, and moves about - The other seeming to look on - And stands anonymous again. From At Grass.
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- Bookseller
- Any Amount of Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- C68696
- Title
- THE LESS DECEIVED: POEMS.
- Author
- LARKIN, Philip
- Book Condition
- Used - Pages toned, light toned offsetting at endpapers, some light spots throughout and heavier at top edge, spine ends and corners bu
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, Second State. Hardback. Dust Jacket.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Hessle,
- Date Published
- 1955
- Keywords
- Poetry
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- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Second State
- used in book collecting to refer to a first edition, but after some change has been made in the printing, such as a correction,...
- First Edition
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