First edition "All What Jazz ", Philip Larkin

First edition of jazz record reviews by poet & jazz critic: PHILIP LARKIN. Philip Larkin is one of the finest and most read English poets of the twentieth century. Few would disagree with that. He was also an informed if sometimes controversial reviewer of jazz records for The Daily Telegraph. Here you are bidding on a very fine first edition of ALL WHAT JAZZ being a collection of Philip Larkin’s jazz record reviews published in The Telegraph during the period 1961 - 68. The technical description: Both the book and pictorial dust wrapper are in outstanding condition. The book has no internal markings and the page block is tight. The dust wrapper bears the original price of 35s/£1.75 net. The book is covered in archival removable clear sleeve for its future protection. You will not find a better copy anywhere. Exactly as photographed. A very collectable copy. Published in 1970 by Faber and Faber, London. Here’s a couple of quotations from the book which we have selected. Not normally (or ever) chosen by the literary critics of the day: “I’m afraid l poached Bob Dylan’s ‘Highway 61 Revisited’ …[his] cawing, derisive voice is probably well suited to his material…much of it was unintelligible to me” (10 November 1965) & “Of ‘Sargeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Cliub Band’ (Parlaphone) l can say only that The Beatles, having made their name in the narrow emotional and harmonic world of teenage pop, are now floating away on their own cloud.” (10 July 1967) In fairness to Larkin these observations were wholly incidental to long articles on the latest jazz record releases.