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"The Book of xxx" by Henry xxx (lecturer at the University of Hull), mid 1960s. Possibly fantasy of some sort.

Anybody have an idea who the author might be, or what the book? The title (what I have of it) is so generic as to be unsearchable in the usual ways.

(Yes, this is connected to my Larkin project. I've had the go-ahead from the estate to write an article quoting the letters to my mother, as long as I run it by them before trying to publish it.)

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Date: 2015-06-15 11:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sue-bursztynski.livejournal.com
You need a reference librarian. Really. Anyone who has spent much of their career looking for "There was this book with a blue cover, I forget what it's called and who write it, but it turned out they were twins..." can probably do something with that bit of info.

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Date: 2015-06-15 12:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] steepholm.livejournal.com
I could always try Whatwasthatbook here on LJ, too. [livejournal.com profile] kalimac is a librarian, and the catalogues don't appear to have yielded the information to him, though it seems they were playing hard to get. I'm beginning to conclude that it probably didn't get published, at least under that title. Another possible line of enquiry is to look at Hull lecturers called Henry during this period - if indeed such a list were easily obtainable.
Edited Date: 2015-06-15 12:16 pm (UTC)

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Date: 2015-06-15 11:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sue-bursztynski.livejournal.com
Can you give some idea of why you're searching for that particular book by a writer whose surname you don't know? This will help. What IS your Larkin project?

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Date: 2015-06-16 06:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] steepholm.livejournal.com
Ah - you probably didn't see my original post on this, which on advice I made private until the copyright situation was sorted. Philip Larkin knew my mother quite well (her cousin was his fiancee for a while), and she has a number of letters from him stretching over some four decades, which we were thinking might be made the basis of an article for the TLS or similar. In one, from the mid-60s, he mentions this novel, and asks if she's come across it.

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