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London : Macmillan & Co., 1913. First edition : [one of 1,000 copies]. Over 170 poems culled from three earlier collections, together with "such new verses as I thought of equal mood".
Crown 8vo. (xvi),(276)pp. Original blue cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine; a few faint marks and spots; neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; occasional pencil mark, but a very good copy. Denson 21.

£25

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Newcastle upon Tyne : Jackson's Arm, (1985). First edition. Signed by Brendan Cleary on the title-page. The Antrim-born poet's first collection - fourteen poems
Post 8vo. [16]pp. Original stapled wraps - a design in pale lilac, black and white; near fine.

£20

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Oldcastle : Gallery Press, (1992). First edition. Signed by Harry Clifton on the title-page. Thirty-three poems.
Demy 8vo. (64)pp. Original black boards, lettered down spine in gilt; very lightly bruised at head, but a very good, clean and sound copy in the original dust-jacket, printed in light blue and black, very slightly bruised and just a little sunned.

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Corandulla : Krino, 1986. The first issue of Dawe's literary magazine, signed by Dawe on the title-page. Contains Eavan Boland's essay, "The Woman Poet : Her Dilemma". Other contributors include Gerard Fanning, Thomas Kilroy, Frank Ormsby, etc.
Foolscap 4to. Original wraps; very good indeed.

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London : Poem-of-the-Month Club, 1970. First edition: [limited to 1,000] copies signed by Day Lewis. A broadside poster poem.
Imperial 4to. Single ivory sheet, printed in black on recto only. Fine.

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London : Jonathan Cape, (1965). First edition. A collection of thirty poems.
Demy 8vo. (64)pp. Original boards, patterned sides; top edge blue; neat name, but very good indeed in the original Leigh Taylor dust-jacket - a design in purple, black and white - very lightly rubbed.

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Dublin : Dedalus Press, (1994). First edition : the hardback issue. Signed by John F. Deane on front free endpaper. Thirty-five poems.
Royal 8vo. 78,[ii]pp. Original black rexine, lettered down spine in gilt; a little bruised at spine tips, but very good in the original black and white John Behan dust-jacket.

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Brighton : Harvester Press, (1986). First British edition. Essays on "A.E.", Maud Gonne, Seamus Heaney, James Joyce, George Moore, James Stephens, W.B.Yeats, etc.
Crown 4to. [2],(x),(276)pp. Oeriginal quarter cloth; one faint bruise, but a very good copy in a sunned and slightly creased dust-jacket.

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Calstock : Peterloo Poets / Newbridge : Kavanagh Press, (1989). First edition. Forty-one poems.
Demy 8vo. (64)pp. Original pictorial wraps, lettered in dark blue; very good.

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Liverpool : Windows, (1982). First edition. Poems.
Pott 8vo. [16]pp. Original green wraps, printed in black; very lightly sunned, but very good.

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London : Egoist Press, 1923. Third edition : the first issue, one of just 107 copies (of 500) issued by the Egoist Press before Jonathan Cape acquired the sheets in 1924. His first book, a collection of thirty-six poems, originally published in very small editions by Elkin Mathews in 1907 and 1918.
Foolscap 4to. [40]pp. Original green cloth, lettered on upper cover and spine in gilt; just a touch dulled; endpapers a little tanned; a few spots, but a very good copy. Inscription dated Easter 1931 to "My dear Flo" - and the ownership label of Florence Hilda Ineson (b. 1884) of Batley, Yorkshire. Slocum & Cahoon pp. 9-10.

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Dublin : Icarus, 1960. The March 1960 of the Trinity College Dublin literary magazine - with poems from Monk Gibbon, Brendan Kennelly (2), Thomas Kinsella, Michael Longley (2), etc. Edited by Bruce Arnold.
Demy 8vo. [viii],46,[ii]pp. Original pale green stapled wraps, printed in darker green; a few faint marks, but a very good copy.

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Woodford Green : Poet & Printer, (1972). First edition : [one of 400 copies]. A collection of twelve poems, illustrated with colour-printed lino-cuts by Brian Ferran. Loosely inserted is the Poet & Printer compliments slip, initialled and dated 27 March 1972 by the publisher, Alan Tarling.
Post 8vo (20cm). (24)pp. Illustrations. Original grey wrappers, blocked with a purple illustration and lettered in black on upper wrapper; a fine copy, still in the original red-printed Poet & Printer grey paper packaging (matching the wrappers). From the collection of the late Barry Bloomfield, bibliographer of Auden and Larkin, to whom the package is addressed.

£125

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London : Oxford University Press, 1968. First edition. His first full-length collection - twenty-eight poems. A review copy, with the publishers' slip loosely inserted.
Demy 8vo. [x],38pp. Original wraps, printed in black and pale blue; lower wrap very slightly wrinkled in production or use, but a very good, clean and virtually unworn copy.

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Old Deerfield : Deerfield Press / Dublin : Gallery Press, (1978). First edition : limited to 250 copies signed by Richard Murphy. Two poems, illustrated by Timothy Engelland.
Foolscap 4to. [16]pp. Two full-page illustrations. Original black cloth, lettered down spine in silver; fine in the original grey dust-jacket, printed in black - also fine.

£75

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Dublin : Gallery Press / Newcastle upon Tyne : Bloodaxe Books, (1986). First edition: the hardback issue. A selection of forty-two poems from her earlier volumes.
Demy 8vo. 68,[iv]pp. Original black cloth, lettered down spine in gilt; fine in the original blue-green dust-jacket, printed in black - just very faintly sunned.

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