![]() Publication Date: 1955 Binding: Hardback. Pages good condition lightly tanned throughout. Boards good condition wrappers a little faded and worn with small pieces of the corners are missing on the front and rear, the wrapper is not price clipped and shows the original price of 6/- nett, beneath are clean light brown card covers. ![]() ![]() Joints good condition sound, gently rubbed. Condition Report Externally Spine poor condition part of the spine is missing so only part of the title can be seen. Newspaper cutting inside the rear cover showing one of the few photographs of Monica Jones with Philip Larkin taken in 1955. ![]() Wrappers a little faded and worn, not price clipped, salmon pink dust jacket in clear protective wrapper. Its speaker casually visits an empty church, a place he views with skeptical irreverence. Yorkshire: The Marvell Press, 1956, Second Impression. First published in The Less Deceived in 1955, 'Church Going' remains one of Philip Larkins best-known poems. The Less Deceived contained the mature Philip Larkin stylethat of a detached observer of what Jean Hartley referred to as ordinary people doing ordinary things - the virtues of which came to be associated with The Movement, the post-war generation of poets that used plain language and traditional forms to address everyday life in Britain. ![]()
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