Philip Larkin, the Marvell Press and Me

First published in 1989 Philip Larkin, the Marvell Press, and Me is the story of how this small publishing company became a chapter in literary history when, in 1955, the then novice publishers, of which Jean Hartley was one, were entrusted with the manuscript of Larkin's The Less Deceived.The Less Deceived, Larkin's second collection, contained the mature Philip Larkin style - that of a detached ...