POETRY FROM OXFORD IN WARTIME [with 10 previously unpublished poems by Philip Larkin and his second appearance in print]

1945 FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE 8vo. (approx.19.5 x 13cm) dark blue cloth hardback, gilt, in unclipped dust jacket (6s). 94pp. plus 2pp. Publisher's advertisements at end. Some leaves unopened, lower edge untrimmed. A clean copy with no previous owners' markings or inscriptions. Slight foxing to endpapers. Slight dulling of gilt title to spine and light mottling to lower edge of boards. Dust jacket lightly foxed with slight wear to top and base of spine and small tear to top edge of rear cover (please see photos). A GOOD+ COPY in GOOD+ DUST JACKET.