Size: 6x2x9; The binding is tight, corners sharp. Light wear and soiling to

Size: 6x2x9; The binding is tight, corners sharp. Light wear and soiling to edges of text block. Text and images unmarked. DJ shelf worn with scuffs, small scratches, toning & sunning in a mylar cover.

First American edition, hardcover in jacket (jacket spine faded with nicks

First American edition, hardcover in jacket (jacket spine faded with nicks and wear to jacket). xxxvi, 791 pages + plates. Over 700 letters of the noted English poet and music critic to over 50 recipients (including Kingsley Amis, John Betjeman, C. Day Lewis, D. J. Enright, Harold Pinter, Vernon Watkins, and others); also notable for the reproductions of Larkin's caricatures on the endpapers. Editor's introduction, acknowledgments and postscript; biographical chronology, notes on recipients, bibliographical references and 2 indexes. Originally published in Great Britain in 1992. 37 b/w Photographs / Plates (chiefly portraits); 2 brown/white Illustrations (endpapers).

Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 791 p. Audience: General/trade. Very nice

Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 791 p. Audience: General/trade. Very nice copy. Clean and bright with rich maroon cloth binding. Some shelf wear to the unclipped DJ including fading, rubbed corners and minor 1/2" tear on upper front cover.