Catalogue of an Exhibition of Poetry Manuscripts in the British Museum, April–June 1967.With contributions by C. Day Lewis, T. C. Skeat and Philip Larkin.
Poetry in the Making Catalogue of an Exhibition of Poetry Manuscripts in the British Museum, April–June 1967.With contributions by C. Day Lewis, T. C. Skeat and Philip Larkin.
Turret Books, 1967.
First edition, cloth bound issue. Original green cloth in dustwrapper. A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper. Loosely laid in is the 'Illustrative Material' supplement for the exhibition, the Turrent Books prospectus for this work and a typed note advertising a poetry reading by various of the poets featured including John Betjeman, Edmund Blunden and Ted Hughes.
Primarily the catalogue of a British Library exhibition of poetry manuscripts, but contains an eight page introductory essay by Larkin, entitled Operation Manuscript. One of 500 cloth bound copies.
Bloomfield B7
Stock ID: 45179
