The North Ship: Poems.

London: Fortune Press [1945]. First edition, variant issue. 35 pp. Foxing to endpapers, else near fine in full black cloth with gilt stamping to spine. Very good plus, price-clipped red dust jacket with black lettering. Inked ownership signature of John Saville, a Marxist historian at Hull whom Larkin helped to develop the University’s Archive of Labour History. Conforms to the first edition, but lacks the first edition statement below the dedication, which is present. See Bloomfield AIa.