LARKIN, Philip. The North Ship. London: The Fortune Press, [1945]. 8°. Half title. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, uncut, red dust-jacket lettered in black, 10/6 price label laid down onto front turn in, lower corners of both turn-ins clipped (a few short tears, some fraying at corners, backstrip a little faded). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, OF THE AUTHOR’S FIRST BOOK. Bloomfield A1: “It is not likely that the edition exceeded 500 copies …”