Bright November.
London: The Fortune Press, [1947]. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Ex libris W.J. Harvey, Seamus Heaney's teacher. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.32. Publisher's black leatherette, gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at 6s to front flap. Harvey's black ink signature to front flyleaf, and notes to rear flyleaf. Lightly toned throughout with gentle spotting to endpapers. Top edge toned. Toning and light spotting to dust-jacket (most toning is to spine). Edgewear and minor loss to jacket extremities. Very good. Kingsley Amis's first book, and one of his few poetry collections. From the library of Northern Irish poet Professor William John Harvey (1925–1967). Harvey, a prominent academic, writer, Wordsworth and George Eliot scholar, and Chair of English at Queen's University, Belfast, taught future Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, who graduated with a First Class Honours. Item #75888
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