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Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974. Later printing. Prior owner's name inked on front flyleaf, otherwise tight and unmarked. 641pp. Jacket is worn around spine head, with a mildly sunned spine panel. Now in a new mylar cover.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984. reprint. hardback. Very good reprint (1984), with unclipped d/j (good), blue boards and gilt decoration/titling pristine, school prize plate on ffep pages unmarked and tight; some foxing on edges.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Philip Larkin's Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse provoked controversy and dispute on first publication in 1973. Warmly welcomed by fellow poets John Betjeman and W.H. Auden, it was also considered a quirky and idiosyncratic collection by some critics. Today it is recognized as a fine and wide-ranging selection of modern verse, valuable not least because it reflects the tastes of one of the best, and best-loved, English poets of the twentieth century.