PHILIP LARKIN talks to Eboracum 1970 and 1982 Start Price GBP 165.00 Current Price GBP 165.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Sunday, September 28, 2008 End Time Saturday, November 08, 2008 Location Wiltshire See more about 'PHILIP LARKIN talks to Eboracum 1970 and 1982' Description A rare one from the shelves........ PHILIP LARKIN (1922 - 1985)   Philip Larkin talks to Eboracum   First Edition of this 4pp. booklet issued in an edition of 'about twenty copies'. 16mo. Stapled, as issued.   Sewn into an A5 size booklet bound in wrappers, printed on the upper panel, as issued.  One of 18 copies thus.   Published by Eboracum [York 1970]   and [Privately Printed] London 1982.   'Both' are fine copies. An extraordinarily rare item.    'In 1979 Faber and Faber published 'Philip Larkin: A Bibliography 1933-1976, by B.C. Bloomfield. In the introduction to section 'E' of the Bibliography, 'Interviews', Bloomfield writes: "Larkin at one time granted interviews fairly readily and the reports by the interviewers are often the surest way of ascertaining his opinions on various topics at those times." Entry E12 in this section is listed as 'Philip Larkin talks to Eboracum. Eboracum [Derwent College, University of York], 10 [(Christmas 1971)], pp. 9 and 16.' The writer of this note was the publisher of Eboracum at that time (as well, perforce, as editor and business manager). The magazine bears no date, but Bloomfield is in error dating it as 1971. It in fact appeared at Christmas 1970. References to Christmas are found in the advertisements, whilst the copies sent to Larkin were received by him in January 1971, probably thus being given the date stamp of that year either in his personal files or in those of the Brynmor Jones Libary at the University of Hull. Bloomfield also omits to note that a few copies of the 'interview' were run off as a 16mo booklet, and presumably, therefore, had failed to locate the Larkin copy. About twenty copies of this booklet were printed from the re-formatted standing type of the magazine in November 1970, for the editor's private use, it being his intention to send them to his friends as 'Christmas cards'. As an act of courtesy to Larkin, however, a copy of the booklet was sent to him, in order to obtain his response, before it was distributed. Larkin failed to acknowledge its receipt, and the booklet, with the exception of the Larkin copy and perhaps one or two others, never was sent out.  Eighteen surviving copies of the booklet were re-discovered in February 1982 amongst the detritus of the editorial files. Since the events leading up to the publication of this 'interview' were such as both to cast doubt on Bloomfield's statement that "Larkin at one time granted interviews fairly readily", and also to modify critical apprehension as to the value of what such interviews contain, it has been thought possibly of interest to issue them now, together with a word or two of explanation and the appended facsimilies, in order to preserve some record of what actually occured.' - from the introduction. 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