SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library C. W. Post Campus Long Island University Brookville, NY 11548 mail
to: Special.Collections@cwpost.liu.edu IRISH POETRY
AFTER 1950
AUTHORS
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Poems
in English. London: John Calder [1961]. 1st edition. Limited to 100 copies. Signed by the author
Poems
in English. London: John Calder [1961]. Inscribed by the author to Tara MacGowran,
daughter of Beckett
Poems
In English. New York: Grove Press [1963]. 1st American edition, first printing.
Inscribed by the author to
Apollinaire,
Guillaume. Zone. English translation by Samuel Beckett.
Dublin: The Dolman Press; London: Calder & Boyars [1972].
1st book edition.
Bi-lingual text. Inscribed
by the author. Dust jacket.
Anna
Liffey. [Dublin]:
Poetry Ireland Pamphlets, 1997.
1st edition. Limited
to 250 numbered copies. This
is no. 27.
A
Christmas Chalice. [Buffalo, New
York]: State University of New
York at Buffalo, The University Libraries, 1994. Christmas Broadside, 3rd series, no. 6. Edition limited to 1750 copies. [Poem card]
Collected
Poems. [Manchester]:
Carcanet [1995]. 1st
edition. Signed by the author.
The
Emigrant Irish. London: The British Council [and] The British Library
[1994?] Poems on the Underground.
In
a Time of Violence. New York [and]
London: W. W. Norton [1994]. 1st American edition. Inscribed by the author. Dust
jacket.
Introducing
Eavan Boland. Princeton, New
Jersey: The Ontario Review Press
[1981]. 1st edition. Ontario Review Press Poetry Series. Dust jacket.
The
Journey. Illustration
by Timothy Engelland. [Deerfield,
Massachusetts]: Deerfield Press;
[Dublin]: Gallery Press [1983]. 1st edition. Limited to 300 copies. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
Limitations. New York:
Center for Book Arts, 2000.
Edition limited to 25 copies reserved for the Center for Book
Arts. Khadi natural black covers.
Signed by the author.
Limitations. New York:
Dim Gray Bar Press, 2000. Edition limited to 75 numbered copies.
This is no. 57. Rossi Medieval Chant wrappers.
Signed by the author.
An
Origin Like Water; collected poems 1967 – 1987. New York [and] London: W. W. Norton [1996]. 1st edition. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
Internal
Exiles; poems. [Mountrath,
Portlaoise]: Dolmen Press [1986].
1st edition. Signed by the author.
A
New Primer for Irish Schools
[by] Dermot Bolger and Michael O’Loughlin.
[Dublin]: Raven Arts Press [1985]. 1st edition. Limited to 80 numbered copies. This is no. 3. Signed by both authors. Dust
jacket.
Abigail
Brown. [Galway:
Salmon Publishing, 1991]. 1st
edition. Author’s 1st
book.
The
Rose and the Blade; new and selected poems 1957 – 1987. Belfast:
Lagan Press, 1997. 1st
edition. Inscribed by
Golden
Lane. [Illustration
by] Kathleen Furey. Galway: Kenny’s Book Shops, 2000. Edition limited to 2001 copies. This is no. 1801. Signed by the author and by the artist.
Belfast
Confetti. [Madison, Wisconsin]:
Silver Buckle Press, University of Wisconsin – Madison Libraries
[1993]. Edition limited to 95 numbered copies. This is no. 59.
First
Language. [Oldcastle,
Meath]: Gallery Books [1993]. 1st edition. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
The
Irish for No. [Dublin]: Gallery Press; [Winston-Salem, North Carolina]:
Wake Forest University Press [1987].
1st edition. Signed
by the author and dated: “Apr
‘93”. Dust jacket.
Letters
from the Alphabet. [Oldcastle, Meath]:
Gallery Books [1995]. 1st edition. Limited to 500 copies. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
The
Lost Explorer. [Belfast]:
Ultsterman Publications [1978].
1st edition. Signed
by the author.
The
New Estate and other poems . [Oldcastle, Meath]: Gallery
Books [1988]. Signed by the
author and dated: The
Alexandrine Plan; versions of sonnets by Baudelaire, Mallerme and Rimbaud. [Old Castle,
Meath]: Gallery Books [1998]. 1st edition. Signed by Carson. Dust jacket.
Forget-Me-Not. [Dublin]:
Dolmen Press [1962]. 1st
edition. Limited to 200 numbered copies. This is no. 200. Signed by the author.
The
Wooing of Bectola. (After the Irish).
[London]: Poem-of-the Month Club, 1973. Signed by Clarke. [Broadside]
Ballads
of a Bogman. London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1955. 1st edition. Dust jacket.
Comparative
Lives. [Dublin]:
Gallery Books [1982]. 1st
edition. Signed by the author.
The
Desert Route, selected poems 1973-1988. [Oldcastle, Meath]: Gallery Books [1992]. 1st edition. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
Night
Train through the Brenner. [Oldcastle, Meath]: Gallery
Books [1994]. 1st
editin. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
The
Walls of Carthage. [Dublin]:
Gallery Books [1977]. 1st
edition. Signed by the author. Author’s 1st book. Dust jacket.
The
Big Laugh. Dublin: Sugar Loaf [1976]. 1st edition. Limited to 500 numbered copies. This is no. 21. Inscribed by the author and dated: “23/vii/76”.
Brian
Coffey. Edited by Trevor
Joyce. Dublin: New Writer’s Press, 1971. Versheet 1. Edition limited to 500 copies.
Poems
and Versions 1929 – 1990.
[Dublin]: Dedalus [1991]. 1st edition. Inscribed by the author to fellow Irish poet
Robert Greacen and dated: “13/XI/91.”
Selected
Poems. [Dublin]:
New Writers’ Press [1971]. 1st edition. Limited to 250 copies. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
Irish
Elegies. [Dublin]:
Dolmen Press [1961]. 2nd edition. (1st
edition in 1958). Inscribed by the author and dated:
“Jan 1962”. Manuscript corrections in the text by the
author. Dust jacket.
The
End of the Modern World.
[Dublin]: Raven Arts
Press [1989]. 1st
edition. Signed by the author.
The
Minotaur, and other poems. [Dublin]: New Island Books
[1999]. 1st edition.
Signed by the author.
Relationships. Dublin: [New Island Books, 1994]. 1st edition. Limited to 400 copies. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
Heart
of Hearts. [Oldcastle,
Meath]: Gallery Books [1995]. 1st edition. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
Heritages. [Breakish, Isle
of Skye]: Aquila [and] The Wayzgoose
Press [1976]. 1st
edition. Signed by the author.
Sheltering
Places & Company; poems. Images by Noel Connor. [Biddulph Moor, Statfordshire]:
The Rudyard Press [1993]. 1st
edition. Signed by the author.
Far
Country. [Dublin]:
Dedalus [1992]. Icarus editions 1. 1st edition. Limited to 350 copies.
Upon
Foreign Soil. Dublin: Dedalus, 1999. Icarus editions 3. 1st
edition. Limited to 500 copies. Signed by the author.
Walking
on Water. Dublin: Dedalus [1994]. “Icarus” series 3. 1st edition. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
Gradual
Wars. Shannon [Limmerick]:
Irish University [1972]. 1st
edition. Limited to 1000 paperback copies. Inscribed by the author. Includes a typed letter signed by Deane and
dated: “7 Dec. 73”.
While
Jewels Rot. [Belfast]:
Festival Publications, Queen’s University at Belfast [1966]. 1st edition. Author’s
1st book.
Decoding
Samara. [Dublin]:
Dedalus [2000]. 1st edition. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
The
Fifth Province. [Wood engravings
by Bonnie Christensen]. [Minneapolis:
Traffic Street Press, 2000].
1st edition. “Deluxe
edition of 26 lettered copies. This
is letter U. Signed by the author,
by the artist and initialed by the book designer, Paulette Myers-Rich. Slipcase.
Striped
Ink. [Photographs
by Paulette Myers-Rich]. [Minneapolis:
Traffic Street Press, 2000].
Limited edition of 15 copies in roman numerals.
This is no. IX. Signed by the author and initialed by the
photographer. Slipcase.
The
Heavenly Foreigner. Edited and introduced
by Brian Coffey. [Dublin:
Dolmen Editions [1967]. Revised
edition. Originally published in Poetry Ireland in 1950.
Limited edition of 1000 copies.
Signed by Coffey. Dust
jacket.
Char,
Rene. Poems./[Poemes]. Translated by Denis Devlin and Jackson Mathews.
Roma [Rome]: Botteghe Oscure, 1952. 1st edition. Limited to 350 numbered copies. This is no. 265.
Sappho’s
Daughter. [Dublin]:
Wave Train Press [1998]. 1st
edition. Limited to 500 numbered copies. This is no. 229. Signed by the author.
Against
the Storm; poems. [Mountrath,
Portlaoise]: The Dolmen Press
[1985]. 1st edition. Author’s 1st book.
The
Berlin Wall Cafe. Belfast and Dover,
New Hampshire: The Blackstaff
Press [1985]. 1st
edition. Inscribed by the author
and dated: “26-11-85”.
Christmas
Day with a Goose in the Frost. London:
The Harvill Press [1996]. 1st
edition. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
Going
Home to Russia. Belfast and
Wolfeboro, New Hampshire: The
Blackstaff Press [1987]. 1st
edition. Signed by the author.
In
the Land of Punt. [Illustrations (7 full color printed plates) by] Gene
Lambert. [Dublin]: Clashaganna Mills Press [1988]. 1st edition. Signed by the author and by the artist.
Dust jacket.
Teresa’s
Bar. [Dublin]:
Gallery Books [1976]. 1st
edition. Limited to 250 copies. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
Collected
Poems. [Orono, Maine]:
The National Poetry Foundation, University of Maine at Orono,
1983. 1st edition. Limited
to 250 numbered copies. This
is no. 56. Dust jacket.
Collected
Poems. [Orono, Maine]:
The National Poetry Foundation, University of Maine at Orono,
1983. 1st edition. Inscribed
by the author. Dust jacket.
Elegies. [Newbridge,
Kildare]: Goldsmith, 1996. 1st edition. Signed by the author.
Famine. Drawings by
James McKenna. [Newbridge, Kildare]:
Goldsmith, 1997. 1st edition. Signed by the author.
The
Hill of Allen, a sequence of poems. Drawings by James McKenna and a note by Daithi
Ohogain. [Newbridge,
In
the Holocaust of Autumn, a sequence of eight parts with an epilogue. Foreword by Ben Briscoe.
[Newbridge, Kildare]: Goldsmith, 1994. 1st edition. Signed
by the author.
Midland,
poems. Drawings by
Brian Bourke. [Dublin: The Goldsmith Press, 1973]. 1st edition. Signed by the author. Author’s 1st book.
Siege! Monasterevin 22 October/7 November. [The Curragh,
Kildare]: Goldsmith, 1976. 1st edition. Signed by the author.
Woodcutter. [The Curragh,
Kildare]: Goldsmith, 1978.
1st edition. Signed by the author.
Arboretum. [Dublin]:
Dedalus [1990]. 1st edition. Limited to 300 numbered copies. This is no. 157.
Dolmen
Hill. Dublin: Gallery Books [1977]. 1st edition. Limited to 250 copies. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
Night
on Hibernia. [Dublin]:
Gallery Books [1976]. 1st
edition. “Limited signed edition.”
Signed by the author. Author’s
1st book. Dust jacket.
Selected
Poems. Dublin: Dedalus, 1996. 1st edition. Signed
by the author. Dust jacket.
Among
the Walls. [Dublin]:
Tara Telephone Publications [1971].
1st edition. Limited
to 500 copies. Author’s 1st book.
Caesarean;
a poem. Illustration
by Carol J. Blinn. Easthampton,
Massachusetts: Warwick Press,
1995. Limited edition of 120
copies. Signed by the author
and by the illustrator.
The
Deerfield Series: Strength of Heart. [Woodcuts by
Timothy Engelland]. [Deerfield,
Massachusetts]: The Deerfield
Press [1997].” 1st
edition. Limited to 1000 copies. Written “to commemorate the Bicentennial
of Deerfield Academy 1797-1997. Signed
by the author and by the book designer, Carol J. Blinn.
Eye
to Eye. [Oldcastle,
Meath]: Gallery Books [1992]. 1st edition. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
A
Flowering; a poem. [East Hampton,
Massachusetts]: Warwick Press,
2000. 1st edition.
Limited to 125 copies. Signed by the author and by the book designer
and printer, Carol J. Blinn.
A
Gentler Birth. [Illustrations
by Timothy Engelland]. [Deerfield,
Massachusetts: The Deerfield
Press, 1976]. 1st
edition. Limited to 500 copies.
A
Gentler Birth. Illustrations
by Timothy Engelland. [Deerfield,
Massachusetts]: The Deerfield
Press [1977]. 2nd
edition. Inscribed by the illustrator and signed by
the author.
The
News and Weather. [Dublin]:
Gallery Books [1987]. 1st
edition. Signed by the author and dated: “Christmas 1987.” Dust jacket.
The
Speaking Stones. Drawings by
Timothy Engelland. [Dublin]: Gallery Books, [1978]. 1st edition/Limited to 300 copies.
Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
Winter
Work. [Dublin]:
Gallery Books [1983]. 1st
edition. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
Working
for the Government. [Dublin]:
Dedalus, 1999. 1st edition. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
By
The Black Stream; selected poems 1947 – 1967. [Dublin]:
The Dolmen Press [1969]. Poetry
Ireland Editions. 1st
edition.
Odour
of Blood, poems from Northern Ireland. The Curragh [Kildare]: The Goldsmith Press [1983]. Second edition. Inscribed by the author.
Red
Earth. Belfast: Lagan Press, 1996. 1st edition. Signed by the author and dated: “13.xi.96”.
Woe
to the Boy. [Belfast:
Lapwing Publications, 1994].
Won the AE Memorial Prize in 1957.
Signed by the author.
Heil
Hitler. [Portrush, Antrim: Ulsterman Publications [1969]. 1st edition. Author’s 1st publication.
By
Nature Different, a poem. [Brighton, Sussex:
Tone Press Publications, 1971].
1st edition. Limited to 50 numbered copies. This is no. 23. Signed by the author.
Folk
Tales for the General. Dublin: Raven Arts Press [1989]. 1st edition. Signed by the author and dated: “Oct. 1989.” Heart
of Grace. [London]:
Linden Press [1957]. 1st
edition. Author’s 1st volume of poetry.
Dust jacket.
Heart
of Grace. [London]:
Linden Press [1957]; 1st edition.
Inscribed by the author to British poet C. Day Lewis, and dated: “Nov. 1957”. Dust jacket.
Letter
to a British Soldier on Irish Soil.
[Highland Park, Michigan: The
Red Hanrahan Press, 1972]. 1st
edition. Limited to 500 copies.
The
Madwoman of Cork, poems. [Cork: The Three Spires
Press, 1991]. 1st
edition. Limited to 350 numbered
copies. This is unnumbered.
The
Collected Poems… London: Constable [1951]. 1st edition. Limited to 500 copies. Dust jacket.
The
Collected Poems… [New York]:
Devin-Adair [1954]. 1st American edition. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
A
Bright Mask; new and selected poems. [Dublin]:
The Dedalus Press [1985]. 1st
edition. Inscribed by the author
and dated: “26th
Nobember, 1987”.
Carnival
at the River. [Dublin]:
Dedalus [1990]. 1st edition. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
Collected
Poems 1944 – 1994. Belfast: Lagan Press, 1995. 1st edition. Signed by the author.
Dreams,
Nightmares. [ n.p.: Author?, 1980?]. Signed by the author. [Poem
card].
Ecstasy. [Belfast: Lapwing Publications, 1999]. 1st edition. Signed by the author.
The
Garden. [n. p.: n. p.,
1986]. Signed by the author
and dated: “30.11.1986”. [Poem card]
A
Garland for Captain Fox. [Dublin]:
Gallery Books [1975]. 1st
edition. Limited to 500 copies. Signed by the author.
A
Garland for Captain Fox. [Dublin]:
Gallery Books [1975]. Inscribed
by the author and dated: “3.1.78”. Includes a typed letter, single sheet, signed
by the author.
I,
Brother Stephen. Designed and
illustrated by Barbara Deane. [Dublin]: St. Beuno’s Hand-printed Limited Editions
[1978]. No. 2 “in a series of
poetry booklets printed…” by John F.
& Barbara Deane. Limited
to 150 numbered copies. This
is no. 18. Signed by the author.
Lunch
at the Ivy. Belfast:
Lagan Press, 2002. 1st edition. Signed by the author. Once
upon a Christmas. [n. p.: n.p.,
1980?]. Signed by the author. [Poem
card]
The
Only Emperor. [Belfast:
Lapwing Publications, 1994].
1st edition. Inscribed
by the author and dated: “15
August ‘94”.
Protestant
without a Horse. Belfast: Lagan Press, 1997. 1st edition. Signed by the author.
Twelve Poems. Woodside,
California: Occasinal Works, 1988. 1st
Other
People’s Houses. [Oldcastle,
Meath]: Gallery Books [1999]. 1st edition. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
The
Clock. [Illustrations by “T. Q.”]. Cambridge: Carter [1970’s?]. Signed
by the author. [Poem card]
Adharca
Broic [by] Michael Hartnett/Micheál OhAirtnéide. [Dublin]:
Gallery Books [1978]. 1st
edition. Signed by the author. Text in Irish.
Anatomy
of a Cliche. [Dublin]:
The Dolmen Press [1968]. 1st
edition. Inscribed by the author. Author’s 1st book.
Collected
Poems. Dublin: Raven Arts Press [and] Manchester: Carcanet Press [1987]. Volume 2.
Signed by the author.
Collected
Poems. Edited by Peter
Fallon. [Oldcastle, Meath: Gallery Books, [2001]]. 1st edition. Limited to 110 numbered copies. This is no. 67. Includes a portrait of Hartnett “by John Shinnors, signed by the
artist”. Slipcase.
Do
Nuala: Foighne Chrainn [by] Micheál OhAirtnéide.
[Baile Átha Cliath (Dublin)]:
Coiscéim [1984]. 1st edition. Signed
A
Farewell to English. Edited by Peter
Fallon. [Dublin]: Gallery Books [1978]. Enlarged edition. Limited to 300 copies. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
Inchicore
Haiku. [Dublin]: Raven Arts Press [1985]. 1st edition. Signed by the author.
A
Necklace of Wrens, selected poems in Irish. English translations by the author. [Dublin]:
Gallery Books [1987]. 1st
edition. Signed by the author.
Prisoners. Illustrated
by Timothy Engelland. [Old Deerfield,
Massachusetts]: The Deerfield
Press [and Dublin]: The Gallery
Press [1977]. 1st
edition. Limited to 250 copies. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
Selected
and New Poems. [Edited by “P.
F.” (Peter Fallon)]. [Oldcastle,
Meath]: Gallery Books [1994]. 1st edition. Signed by the author.
The
Hag of Beare. A rendition
of the Old Irish by Michael Hartnett.
Dublin: New Writer’s
Press [1969]. 1st
edition. Limited to 100 numbered copies. This is no. 32.
Háicéad,
Padraigín. Háicéad. [Translations
by] Michael Hartnett. [Oldcastle,
Meath]: Gallery Books [1993].
1st edition. Signed
by Hartnett. Dust jacket.
Lorca,
Federico Garcia. Gypsy Ballads. A version of “Romancero Gitano” (1924-27)…
[by] Michael Hartnett. [Dublin: The Goldsmith Press, 1973]. 1st edition. Enclosed slip with Hartnett’s signature.
O
Bruadair, Daibhi. O Bruadair; selected poems… Translated
and introduced by Michael Hartnett. [Dublin]: Gallery Books
[1985]. 1st edition. Signed by Hartnett.
Tao. A version of
the Chinese classic of the sixth century B. C. [by] Michael Hartnett. [Dublin]:
New Writers’ Press [1971]. Edition
limited to 500 copies. Signed
by Hartnett. Dust jacket.
Making
Space; new & selected poems. Dublin:
Dedalus, 2001 1st
edition. Signed by the author.
After
Summer. Illustrations
by Timothy Engelland. [Old Deerfield,
Massachusetts]: The Deerfield
Press and Dublin]:
The
Air Station. Wood-engraving
by Miriam Macgregor. [Cheltenham, Gloucestershire]:
Friends of the Cheltenham Festival of Literature [n. d.].
[Broadside]
Audenesque. [Illustrated
with 4 original lithographs by] Max Neumann. [Paris]: Maeght Editeur [1998]. 1st edition. Limited to 100 numbered copies. This is no. 85. Signed by the author and by the illustrator. Slipcase.
Bog
Poems. Illustrated
by Barrie Cooke. [London]: The
Rainbow Press, 1975. 1st
edition. Limited to 150 numbered
copies. This is no. 147. Signed by the author. Slipcase.
A
Boy Driving His Father to Confession. [Farnham, Surrey: The
Sceptre Press, 1970]. Edition
limited to 150 numbered copies. This
is no. 61.
The
Clothes Shrine. [Banholt, Holland:
Bonnefant Press, 2000. Edition limited to 100 numbered copies.
This is no.87. Signed by the author. In a printed paper folder.
Death
of a Naturalist. London: Faber and Faber [1966]. Uncorrected proof copy. Author’s 1st book.
Death
of a Naturalist. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1966.
1st American edition. Inscribed to American literary scholar and
poet Samuel French Morse, and dated:
“17th May 1982”.
Dust Jacket.
Death
of a Naturalist. London [and]
Boston: Faber and Faber [1980]. Reprint of 1969 Faber paperback. Signed by the author and dated: “July 1985”.
A
Dog Was Crying To-night in Wicklow Also. Photograph by Rachel Brown. Louisville, Kentucky: White Fields Press for the Literary Renaissance,
1994. Heaven poster series #4.
Edition limited to 100 numbered copies.
This is no. 36. Signed by the author. [Broadside]
Door
into the Dark. London: Faber and Faber [1969]. 1st edition. Inscribed by the author: “Our poesy is as a gum which oozes/From whence
‘tis nourished…’Sleinte!” The
quotation is from Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens. Dust jacket.
Door
into the Dark. London: Faber and Faber, [1969]. 1st edition. Inscribed by the author to British poet,
Ted Walke, and dated: “12th
July 1970.” Includes a fuller
Timon of Athens quote with these succeeding words:
“…The fire I’ the flint/Shows not till it be struck – our gentle
flame/Provides itself.” Photo
of Heaney sitting at a festival is affixed by the book owner as a fronispiece.
Dust jacket.
Door
into the Dark. New
York: Oxford University Press,
1969. 1st American
edition. Signed by the author
and dated: “April 1991”. Includes a Folger Shakespeare Library program
guide which lists a Seamus Heaney poetry reading on April 8, 1991. Dust jacket.
The
Earth House. Wood-engraving
by John O’Connnor. [Cheltenham,
Gloucestershire]: Friends of
the Cheltenham Festival of Literature [1990]. Edition limited to ca 500 copies. [Broadside]
Electric
Light. [London]: Faber
and Faber [2001]. 1st
edition. Limited to 300 numbered
copies. This is no. 264. Signed by the author. Slipcase.
Electric
Light. [London]:
Faber and Faber [2001]. 1st
edition. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
Electric
Light. New York:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux [2001].
1st American edition.
Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
Eleven
Poems. [Belfast]: Festival Publications, Queens University
of Belfast [1965]. 1st
edition, 1st printing. Signed
by the author and dated: “28”
December 1965.” Author’s 1st
publication.
Field
Work. London [and]
Boston: Faber and Faber [1979]. 1st edition. Uncorrected proof copy.
Field
Work. London [and]
Boston: Faber and Faber [1979]. 1st edition. Inscribed by the author and dated: “February 1982”. Dust jacket.
Field
Work. New York:
Farrar, Straus, Giroux [1979].
1st American edition.
Signed by the author. Includes a ticket to a Heaney poetry reading
dated: “April 17, 2001”.
The
Fire Gaze. Wood-engraving
by Hellmuth Weissenborn. [Cheltenham, Gloucestershire]:
Friends of The Cheltenham Festival of Literature, 1989. Edition limited to ca. 500 copies. [Broadside]
From
the Republic of Conscience. Illustrated by John Behan. [Dublin]:
Amnesty International [Irish Section, 1985].
1st edition. Limited
to 2000 copies. Inscribed at
Christmas by “Seamus & Marie and the children”.
Good-night. Etching by Beate
Pionke. [Belfast]: Arts Council of Northern Ireland [n.d.].
“Poetry in Motion”. For use on buses [Ulsterbus]. [Poster]
Hailstones. [Dublin]:
Gallery Books [1984]. 1st
edition. Limited to 250 copies. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
The
Haw Lantern. New York:
Farrar, Straus, Giroux [1987].
1st American edition.
Limited to 250 numbered copies.
This is no. 115. Signed by the author. Slipcase.
Hedge
School; sonnets from Glanmore. Colour woodcuts by Claire Van Vliet. Newark, Vermont: Printed
for Charles Seluzicki, Fine Books in Salem, Oregon at the James Press,
1979. Edition limited to 285
numbered copies. This is
In
Their Element; a selection of poems by Seamus Heaney & Derek Mahon. [Belfast:
Arts Council of Northern Ireland, 1977]. 1st edition. Inscribed
by Heaney in 1991 and signed by Mahon in “’93”.
An
Innvocation. London: Bernard Stone and Raymond Danowski, The Turret
Bookshop…, 1992. 1st
edition unpublished, variant issue.
[Broadside]
Iron
Spike. Concord, New
Hampshire: William B. Ewert,
1992. Edition limited to 100
copies. Signed by the author.
Keeping
Going, poems. Illustrations
by Dimitri Hadzi. Concord, New Hampshire:
The Bow & Arrow Press…for
Keeping
Going. Illustrations
by Dimitri Hadzi. Concord, New
Hampshire: The Bow & Arrow
Press…for William B. Ewert, Publisher, 1993.
1st edition. Limited
to 200 copies bound in wrappers. This is a “hors commerce” copy, being one of a few retained for
use of author, illustrator and publisher.
Signed by the author, by the illustrator, and by the book designer,
Gino Lee.
Land. [London]:
Poem-of-the Month Club, 1971.
Signed by the author. [Broadside]
The
Light of the Leaves. Screenprints
by Jan Hendrix. [English text format followed by translations into Spanish
by Pura Lopez Colombé and into Dutch by Jan Eijkelboom]. Banholt [Holland: In De Bonnefont]; Mexico D. F.: Imprenta De Los Tropicas, 1999. 1st edition. Limited
to 63 numbered copies. This
is no. 54. Signed by the author
and by the artist. Accompanied
by a 10 page booklet containing 10 of the screenprints in a smaller
format. The first print is signed by the artist.
The
Loose Box. [New York:
The Oliphant Press, 2001]. Limited to 101 numbered copies. This is no. 42. Signed by the author. Ocassioned
by the 25th anniversary of Parnassus: Poetry in Review.
A
Lough Neagh Sequence. [Didsbury, Manchester:
Phoenix Pamphlet Poets Press, 1969].
1st edition. Limited
to 950 copies. Inscribed by the author.
Mint. Original woodcut
by Mary Azarian. Concord, New
Hampshire: William B. Ewert,
1991. Edition limited to 100
numbered copies. This is no.
20. Signed by the author and by the artist, under
the woodcut. [Broadside]
New
Selected Poems 1966-1981. London [and] Boston: Faber
and Faber [1990]. 1st
edition. Limited to 100 numbered
copies. This is no. 87, Signed by the author. Slipcase.
North. London: Faber and Faber [1975]. 1st edition. Uncorrected proof copy.
North. London: Faber and Faber [1975]. 1st edition. Inscribed by the author with an Irish toast
“S’lainte agus saol”, and includes place and date: “Toronto, October 1971”.
The
Northern Muse. [Phone disc]
[Baile Atlo Cliath (Dublin): Claddagh
Records] (Ceirini Cladaig) CCT. 4, [1968].
One 12” 33 rpm sound recording.
Seamus Heaney and John Montague read their own poetry. Notes by the poets on album’s back cover.
An
Open Letter. [Derry: Field Day Theatre Company, 1983]. Field Day Pmaphlets, no. 2. 1st edition. Signed by the author, and dated “November
1986”.
Opened
Ground; poems 1966-1996. [London}: Faber and Faber
[1998]. 1st edition.
Limited to 300 numbered copies.
This is no. 171. Signed by the author. Slipcase.
Opened
Ground, poems 1966-1996. [London]: Faber and Faber
[199888]. 1st edition.
Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
Opened
Ground: selected poems 1966-1996. New York:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux [1998].
1st American edition.
Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
Poems
1965-1975: Death of a Naturalist; Door into the Dark;
Wintering Out; North. New
York: Farrar Straus Giroux [1980]. 1st edition. Uncorrected proof copy, with dust jacket
proof.
Poems
and a Memoir. Selected and
illustrated by Henry Pearson… Introduction by Thomas Flanagan and a
preface by Seamus Heaney. [New York]:
The Limited Editions Club [1982].
1st edition. Limited
to 200 numbered copies. This
is no. 1514. Signed by the author, by the illustrator,
and by Flanagan. Slipcase.
Poetry
Ireland 50/60… [see Montague, John].
Poet’s
Chair. Linoleum block
illustration by Dimitri Hadzi. Concord,
New Hampshire: William B. Ewert,
1993. Edition limited to 100
copies. Signed by the author
and by the artist, under the illustration. [Broadside]
Remembering
Malibu. Linoleum block
illustration by Carol Wehrmann. Claremont,
California: Scripps College Press, 1982. Supressed 1st edition.
Limited to a planned 200 copies, but only about 10-15 were released.
Dedicated to Irish novelist Brian Moore.
[Broadside]
Remembering
Malibu. [Linoleum print
by Carol Wehrmann]. [Claremont,
California: Scripps Collee Press,
1983]. 1st edition. Limited to 180 numbered copies. This is no. 27. Dedicated to Brian Moore. [Broadside]
Seamus
Heaney. [Kobenhavn (Copenhagen)]:
Skoleradioen, 1977. 1st
edition. [Edited by Edward Broadbridge]. Includes the script of the radio program
broadcast on November 22, 1977.
Seamus
Heaney, Felim Egan: Toward a
Collaboration, October, 1986. [Enniskillen, Fermanagh: Ardhowen Centre:
1986]. Contains one sonnet and illustration. [see Heaney’s Squarings].
Seeing
Things. London [and]
Boston: Faber and Faber [1991]. 1st edition. Limited to 250 signed copies. This is no. 64. Signed by the author. Slipcase.
Seeing
Things. London [and]
Boston: Faber and Faber [1991]. 1st edition. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
Selected
Poems 1965-1975. London and Boston:
Faber & Faber [1980]. 1st
edition. Limited to 750 copies. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
Selected
Poems 1965-1975. London and Boston:
Faber & Faber [1980]. Inscribed
by the author and dated:
Selected
Poems 1966-1987. New York:
Farrar Straus and Giroux [1990].
1st American edition.
Limited to 200 numbered copies.
This is no. 112. Signed by the author. Slipcase.
Servant
Boy. Detroit: The Red Hanrahan Press, 1971. [Broadside]
The
Sounds of Rain. [Atlanta]:
Emory University [1988]. 1st
edition. Privately printed to mark the inauguration
of the Richard Ellmann lectures in Modern Literature, April 11-15,
1988.
The
Spirit Level. London [and]
Boston: Faber and Faber [1996]. 1st edition. Limited to 350 numbered copies. This is no. 248. Signed by the author.
The
Spirit Level. London [and
Boston: Faber and Faber [1996]. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
The
Spirit Level. New York:
Farrar Straus Giroux [1996].
1st American edition.
Signed by the author and dated “28.IX.96”. Dust jacket.
The Spirit Level. New York: Farrar, Strauss, Giroux [1996]. 2 volumes, consisting of the book and the book read by the author on audio cassette.
[Squarings]: Twelve poems. 4 lithographs
[by] Felim Egan. Dublin: [Hieroglyph Editions], 1991. 1st edition. Limited to 100 numbered copies. This is no 51. Signed by the author and by the artist. Calf binding in a solander box.
Station
Island. London [and]
Boston: Faber and Faber [1984]. 1st edition. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
Station
Island. New York:
Farrar, Straus, Grious [1985].
1st American edition.
Inscribed by the author and dated:
“14.x.87”. Dust jacket. Owner’s slipcase.
The
Stick. [Oldcastle,
Meath]: Privately Published
by Peter Fallon at The Gallery Press, 1998.
Edition limited to 74 numbered copies. This is no. 68. Signed
by the author. Marks ‘the presentation
of the Parnell Stick by Seamus Heaney to Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill…”.
[Broadside]
The
Tree Clock. Belfast: The Linen Hall Library [1990]. 1st edition. Limited to 750 copies. Signed by the author and dated: “20.ix.’90”. Dust jacket.
An
Upstairs Outlook. An evening of
poetry by Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley [on]
Thursday 4th May 1989 at the Elmwood Hall, University Road, Belfast.
"Commemorative Programme". Belfast:
Published in aid of the Linen Hall Library Development Campaign],
1989.
Verses
for a Fordham Commencement. [New York]: NADJA [1984]. 1st
edition. Limited to 200 numbered
copies. This is no. 184. Signed by the author.
The
Water Pause. Wood engraving
by Gwenda Morgan. [Cheltenham, Gloucestershire]: Friends of The Cheltenham Festival of Literature,
1991. [Broadside]
Wintering
Out. London: Faber and Faber [1972]. 1st edition. Signed by the author.
Beowulf. English.
Beowulf. Translated
by Seamus Heaney. [London]: Faber and Faber [1999]. 1st edition. Limited to 300 numbered copies. This is no. 296. Signed by Heaney. Slipcase.
Beowulf. English.
From Beowulf. Translated
by Seamus Heaney. [London]:
London Arts Board, The British Council and Calouste Gulbenkian
Foundation [1999]. Poems on the Underground –
1000 years of poetry in English.
[Poster]
Beowulf.
English. A Skilled Poet. Translation of Beowulf, lines 88-98,
[by] Seamus Heaney. [Cambridge,
Massachusetts]:
Merriman,
Brian. The Midnight Verdict. [Translated by] Seamus Heaney. [Oldcastle, Meath]: Gallery Books [1993]. 1st edition. Limited to 1,000 copies. Consists of excerpts from Merriman’s Cúirt
an Mheán Oíche and 2 excerpts from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Dust jacket.
Les
nouns de un leure en engleis/The Names of the Hare. [Translated] from the Middle English [by]
Seamus Heaney.
O’Searcaigh,
Cathal. Caoineadh. (I gcuimhne mo mháthar)/Lament (In memory
of my mother). [Photograph by] Kevin McKiernan. Baile Atha Claith
[Dublin]: Coisceim Feirste [1995?].
1st edition. Signed
by Heaney. Texts in Irish and
English. [Broadside]
O’Searcaigh,
Cathal. Na Piopaí Crofoige/The Clay Pipes. Translated by Seamus Heaney. Photograph [by] Rachel Brown. Louisville, Kentucky: White Fields Press, 1995. Edition limited to 100 numbered copies.
This is no. 24. Signed by the author, by Heaney, and by the
photographer. [Broadside]
Sweeney
Astray. A version from
the Irish [Buile Suibhne] by Seamus Heaney. Derry: Field
Day Publication, 1983. 1st
edition. Signed by Heaney and
dated: “1 July 1992”. Dust jacket.
Sweeney
Astray. [“…Seamus Heney’s
version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibhne…” London [and] Boston: Faber and Faber [1984]. 1st English edition. Dust jacket.
Sweeney
Astray. A version from
the Irish [Buile Suibhne] by Seamus Heaney. [Illustrated by Barrie Cooke]. New York:
Farrar Straus Giroux [1984].
1st American edition.
Limited to 350 numbered copies.
This is no. 101. Signed
by Heaney. Slipcase.
Sweeney’s
Flight. Based on the
revised text of Sweeney Astray [by] Seamus Heaney. With the complete revised text of ‘Sweeney Astray’. Photographs by Rachel Giese. [London]:
Faber and Faber [1992]. Dust
jacket.
The
Chinese Fluteplayer [Lisburn, Antrim:
Tomorrows Press, 1974]. 1st edition. Limited to 200 copies.
Collected
Poems, 1932-1967. [London]:
Macgibbon & Kee [1968].
1st edition. Inscribed by the author and dated: “9.X.76” Dust jacket.
Scissors
for a One-Armed Tailor; marginal verses 1929-1954. Belfast:
[privately printed for the author] 1974. 1st edition. Limited
to 200 copies.
Tesserae. [Belfast]: Festival Publications, Queens University of Belfast [1967].
1st edition. Inscribed by the author and dated: “17.XII.67”.
Time
Enough; poems new and revised. [Belfast]: Blackstaff
Press [1976]. 1st
edition. Inscribed by the author
and dated: “9.XI.76”.
An
Ulster Reckoning. [Coventry, Warwickshire:
Privately printed for the author, 1971].
Ask
Silence Why; selected poems (1961-1982). Edited by Ellen Shannon-Mangan. [Dublin]:
Beaver Row Press, 1987.
Cast
a Cold Eye. [see Kennelly,
Brendan].
The
Frost Is All Over. [Dublin]:
Gallery Books [1975]. 1st
edition. Limited to 225 copies. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
Tongue
without Hands. [Dublin]:
The Dolmen Press [1963]. 1st
edition. Author’s 1st book of poetry.
Watching
the Morning Grow. Dublin: Gallery Books [1972]. 1st edition. Limited to 300 copies. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
Green
Altars, poems. [Belfast]:
Owenvarra Press, 1951. 1st
edition. Inscribed by the author and dated: “December 1951”.
Last
Sanctuary and Other Poems. Belfast: Quota Press,
1954. 1st edition. Inscribed by the author and dated: “June 1955”.
True
North. [Cliffs of Moher,
Clare]: Salmon Poetry [1997].
1st edition. Signed by the author.
Blood
and Stations. [Dublin]:
Gallery Press [1976]. 1st
edition. “Limited edition signed by the author”.
Dust jacket.
Patrician
Stations. [Dublin]:
New Writers’ Press [1971]. 1st
edition. Limited to 500 copies. Signed by the author. Author’s 1st book.
A
Raft from Flotsam, versifications 1948-1974. [Dublin]:
Gallery Books [1975]. 1st
edition. Limited to 225 copies. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
Pentahedron. [Dublin]:
New Writer’s Press [1972]. 1st
edition. Limited to 250 copies. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
Sole
Glum Trek. Dublin: New Writer’s Press, 1967. 1st edition. “New Irish Poets”. Author’s 1st book.
Stone
Floods. Dublin: New Writer’s Press [1995]. 1st edition. Signed by the author.
With
the First Dream of Fire They Hunt the Cold; a body of work 66/00. [Dublin: New Writers’ Press, 2001]. 1st edition. Signed by the author.
Collected
Poems. London: Mac Gibbon
& Kee, 1964. 1st
edition. Limited to 100 numbered
copies. This is no. 16. Signed by the author. Slipcase.
Come
Dance with Kitty Stobling and Other Poems. [London]:
Longmans [1960]. 1st
edition. Review copy with publisher’s
announcement laid in. “The
choice of the Poetry Book Society”.
Control
Tower. [London]:
Chatto and Windus [with] The Hogarth Press, 1962.
1st edition. Author’s
1st book. Dust jacket.
Heartwood. [Newcastle upon
Tyne, Northunberland]: Northern
House, 1978. 1st
edition. Limited to 25 numbered
copies. This is no. 8. Signed by the author.
In
Praise of Warmth (New & Selected Poems). [Dublin]:
Dedalus [1987]. 1st
edition. Inscribed by the author
and dated: “June 1987”.
Begin. [Newcastle upon
Tyne, Northunberland]: Bloodaxe
Books [1999]. 1st
edition. Signed by the author.
The
Boats Are Home. [Dublin]:
Gallery Books [1980]. 1st
edition. Signed by the author. Dust
jacket.
Bread,
poems. [Dublin: Tara
Telephone Publications, 1971]. 1st
edition. Limited to 1,000 copies.
Signed by the author. In manuscript on the title page is the last
stanza of the last poem, “Proof”. Also
included is a brief note signed by the author and dated: “6/Feb/90”.
Cast
a Cold Eye. [by] Brendan Kennelly & Rudi Holzapfel. [Dublin]:
The Dolmen Press [1959]. 1st
edition. Limited to 250 copies. Signed by Kennelly. 1st publication for both authors.
Collection
One: Getting Up Early. Dublin: Allen & Figgis, 1966. 1st edition. Inscribed by the author to the widow of Irish
poet, John Irvine. Dust jacket.
Cromwell,
a poem. [Illustrations
by Brian Kelly]. [Dublin]: Beaver Row Press [1983]. 1st
edition. Limited to 150 numbered
copies. This is no. 133.
Signed by the author and by the illustrator.
Dust jacket.
Dream
of a Black Fox. Dublin: Allen Figgis, 1968. 1st edition. Inscribed by the author to the widow of Irish
poet,
Glimpses. [Tarset, Northumberland]:
Bloodaxe Books [2001]. 1st
edition. Signed by the author. Dust jacket with publisher's wrap announcing
author’s signature.
Good
Souls to Survive, poems. Dublin: Allen Figgis,
1967. 1st edition. Inscribed to the widow of Irish poet, John
Irvine. Dust jacket.
The
House That Jack Didn’t Build; poems. [Dublin]:
Beaver Row Press [1982]. 1st
edition. Signed by the author.
In
Spite of the Wise. Dublin: Trinity Closet Press, 1979. 1st edition. Limited to 50 copies. Signed by the author.
Islandman;
a poem. [Design and
drawings by Denis Bannister]. [Clondalkin,
Dublin]: Profile Press [1977].
1st edition. Inscribed by the author. Dust jacket.
A
Kind of Trust. [Dublin]:
Gallery Books [1975]. 1st
edition. Limited to 250 copies. Inscribed by the author and also signed by
him on another page. Dust jacket.
Love Cry. Dublin: Allen Figgis, 1972. 1st edition. Signed by the author.
The
Man Made of Rain. [Newcastle upon
Tyne, Northumberland]: Bloodaxe
Books [1998]. 1st
edition. Signed by the author. Dust jacket. Moloney
up and at It. Illustrations
by John Verling. Dublin and
Cork: The Mercier Press [1984]. 1st edition. Limited to 500 numbered copies. This is no. 3 Signed by the author and by
the illustrator. Dust jacket.
Moloney
up and at It. Illustrations
by John Verling. Dublin and
Cork: The Mercier Press [1984]. Signed by the author.
My
Dark Fathers. With a note
to the poem (and a word list – by Johannes Hedberg). Nacka [Sweden]: Moderna Spräk [n.
d.]. Offprint from Moderna
Spräk. Signed by the
author.
New
and Selected Poems. Edited by Peter
Fallon. [Dublin]: Gallery Books [1976]. 1st edition. “Limited edition signed by the author”.
Dust jacket.
Poetry
My Arse; a poem. [Newcastle upon
Tyne, Northumberland]: Bloodaxe
Books [1995]. 1st
edition. Inscribed by the author.
Salvation,
the Stranger. [Dublin]:
Tara Telephone Publiations [1972].
1st edition. Limited
edition of 300 copies. Signed
by the author. Dust jacket.
Salvation,
the Stranger. [Dublin]:
Tara Telephone Publications [1972].
Limited to 1700 copies. Inscribed
by the author.
Selected
Poems. Dublin: Allen Figgis, 1969. 1st edition. Signed by the author.
Selected
Poems. Edited by Kevin
Byrne. [Dublin]: Kerrymount Publications [1985]. Edition limited to 750 numbered copies.
This is no. 300. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
Shelley
in Dublin, poems. [Dublin]:
Anna Livia Books, The Dublin Magazine Press [1974].
1st edition. Inscribed
by the author.
Shelley
in Dublin. [Dublin]:
Egoist Press [1977]. Signed
by the author.
Shelley
in Dublin, poems. [Dublin}:
Beaver Row Press [1982]. Revised
edition. Signed by the author.
The
Singing Tree. [Newry [and] Craigavad, Down]: Abbey Press [1998]. 1st edition. Limited to 500 numbered copies. This is no. 249. Signed by the author. Dust
jacket.
A
Small Light; ten songs of O'Connor of Carrigafoyle. [Dublin]: Gallery
Books [1979]. 1st edition. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
A
Small Light; ten songs of O’Connor of Carrigafoyle. [Dublin]:
Gallery Books [1979]. 1st
edition. Signed by the author. Last stanza from “One”, in manuscript beneath
printed poem, and signed by the author.
A
Time for Voices; selected poems 1960-1990. [Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland]:
Bloodaxe Books [1990]. 1st
edition. Limited to 100 numbered copies. This is no 79. Signed by the author. Slipcase.
Up
and at It. [Illustrated].
Dublin: New Square Publications, 1965. 1st edition. Inscribed by the author.
The Visitor, poems. Design and illustration by Barbara Deane. [Portmarnock, Dublin]: St. Beuno’s Hand-printed Limited Editions [1978]. “No. 3 in a series of poetry booklets hand-printed by John F. & Barbara Deane. 1st edition. Limited to 250 numbered copies. This is no. 179. Signed by the author.
[The Visitor]. Gerrards Cross [Buckinghamshire]: Colin Smythe, 1980. Offprint from Yeats, Sligo and Ireland…, edited by A. Norman Jeffares. Signed by the author.
The
Voices, a sequence of poems. [Dublin]: Gallery Books
[1973]. 1st edition. Limited to 400 copies. Signed by the author.
Words
for Women; poems. [Dublin: Poetry Ireland], 1977. Poetry Ireland pamphlets, 1st
series. 1st edition. Limited to 250 numbered copies. This is no. 22. Signed by the author.
A
Drinking Cup; poems from the Irish. Dublin: Allen Figgis,
1970. 1st edition. Limited to 1000 copies. Poem, “The Bell”, in manuscript on front
endpaper, and signed by Kennelly. A
Drinking Cup; poems from the Irish. Dublin: Allen Figgis,
1970. Poem “Etain”, in manuscript
on the title page, and signed by Kennelly.
Love
of Ireland; poems from the Irish. Cork and Dublin: The Mercier
Press [1989]. 1st
edition. Signed by Kennelly.
Another
September. Dublin: The Dolmen Press, 1958. 1st edition. Limited to 50 numbered copies. This is no. 33. Signed by the author. Slipcase.
Another
September. Dublin: The Dolmen Press, 1958. 1st edition. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
Butcher’s
Dozen. [Dublin]:
Peppercanister [1972]. Peppercanister
series #1. 1st edition. Limited to 100 numbered copies. This is no. 5. Signed by the author.
Butcher’s
Dozen. [Dublin]:
Peppercanister [distributed to The Dedalus Press”, [1992].
Limited to 500 copies. Signed
by the author.
Citizen
of the World. [Dublin]:
Peppercanister [Distributed in Ireland by The Dedalus Press,
2000]. 1st edition. Limited to 250
copies. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
The
Death of a Queen. Drawings by
Bridget Swinton. [Glenageary, Dublin:
Dolmen Press, 1956]. 4pp. 1st
edition.
Downstream. Dublin: The Dolmen Press, 1962. Uncorrected proof copy.
Downstream. Dublin: The Dolmen Press [and] London: Oxford University Press, 1962. 1st edition. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
Fair
Eleanor: O Christ Thee Save; poems. [Phono disc].
[Baile Átha Cliath (Dublin)]:
Cladagh Records (Ceirini Claddgh)
The
Familiar. [Dublin]:
Peppercanister [Distributed in Ireland by The Dedalus Press and
in the United Kingdom by Coronet Press, 1999.
Peppercanister series #20. 1st
edition. Limited to 350 copies. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
Fifteen
Dead. [Dublin]:
The Dolmen Press in association with Peppercanister, 1979.
1st edition. Limited
to 150 numbered copies. This
is no. 42. Signed by the author.
In slipcase with One and Other Poems (q.v.).
Finistere. [Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1972]. Dolmen Editions series #16. 1st edition. Limited to 250 numbered copies. This is no. 213. Signed by the author.
Godhead. [Dublin]:
Peppercanister [Distributed in Ireland by The Dedalus Press and
in the United Kingdom by Carcanet Press, 1999].
Peppercanister series #21. 1st
edition. Limited to 350 copies. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
The
Good Fight; a poem for the tenth anniversary of the death of John F.
Kennedy. [Dublin]: Peppercanister
[1973]. Peppercanister series
#4. 1st edition.
Limited to 125 numbered copies.
This is no. 118. Signed by the author. Original plain white cover.
The
Good Fight; a poem for the tenth anniversary of the death of John F.
Kennedy. [Dublin]:
Peppercanister [1973]. Signed
by the author.
Her
Vertical Smile. [Dublin]:
Peppercanister [1985]. Peppercanister
series #10. 1st edition. Limited to 25 lettered copies. This is letter X. Signed by the author. Slipcase.
Her
Vertical Smile. [Dublin]: Peppercanister [1985]. 1st edition. Limited to 50 numbered copies. This is no. 22. Dust jacket.
Her
Vertical Smile. [Dublin]:
Peppercanister [1985]. Edition
limited to 350 copies. Signed
by the author.
Littlebody. [Dublin]:
Peppercanister [Distributed in Ireland by The Dedalus Press and
in the United Kingdom by Carcanet Press, 2000].
Peppercanister series #23. 1st
edition. Limited to 250 copies. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
The
Messenger. [Dublin]:
Peppercanister [1978]. Peppercanister
series #8. 1st edition. Limited to 50 numbered copies. This is no 30. Signed by the author. Additional 14 line poem in manuscript on front endpaper. Slipcase.
The
Messenger. [Dublin]:
Peppercanister [1978]. Inscribed
by the author.
New
Poems 1973. [Dublin]: The Domen Press [1973]. 1st edition. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
Nightwalker and Other Poems. [Dublin]: The Dolmen Press [1967]. Uncorrected proof copy.
Nightwalker. [Dublin]:
The Dolmen Press [1967]. New
Dolmen Chapbooks #2. 1st edition. Limited to 100 numbered copies. This is no. 100. Signed by the author. Original
glassine cover.
Notes
from the Land of the Dead; poems. Dublin: The Cuala Press,
1972. 1st edition.
Limited to 500 numbered copies.
This is no. 383. Original plain white cover.
Notes
from the Land of the Dead and Other Poems. New York:
Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. 1st
American edition. Signed by
the author.
One. Drawings by
Anne Yeats. [Dublin]: Peppercanister [1974]. Peppercanister series #5. 1st edition. Limited to 26 lettered copies. This is letter F. Signed by the author and by the artist.
Additional 10 line poem in manuscript on front endpaper.
Slipcase.
One. Drawings by
Anne Yeats. [Dublin]: Peppercanister [1974]. Edition limited to 124 numbered copies. This is no. 15. Enclosed note written by Kinsella on Peppercanister stationary
indicates that though this is a duplicate no. 15, it is kept as “out
of series”. Signed by the author
and by the artist. Quarter bound
in calf.
One. Drawings by
Anne Yeats. [Dublin]: Peppercanister [1974]. Edition limited to 750 copies.
One
and Other Poems. [Dublin]:
The Dolmen Press in association with Peppercanister, 1979.
Edition limited to 150 numbered copies. This is no. 42. Signed
by the author. In slipcase with
Fifteen Dead (q.v.).
One
Fond Embrace. Illustrations
by Timothy Engelland. [Old Deerfield,
Massachusetts]: The Deerfield
Press; [Dublin]: The Gallery
Press [1981]. 1st
edition. Limited to 300 copies. Signed by the author and by the illustrator.
Dust jacket.
One
Fond Embrace. Illustrations
by Timothy Engelland. [Old Deerfield, Massachusetts]: The Deerfield Press; [Dublin]: The Gallery Press [1981]. Limited to 300 copies. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
One
Fond Embrace. [Dublin]:
Peppercanister [1988]. Peppercanister
series #13. Edition limited
to 100 copies. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
One
Fond Embrace. [Dubln}: Peppercanister [1988]. Edition limited to 400 copies. Signed by the author.
Open
Court. [Dublin]:
Peppercanister [1991]. Peppercnister
series #17. 1st edition. Limited to 200 copies. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
Open
Court. [Dublin]:
Peppercanister [1991]. Edition
limited to 400 copies. Signed
by the author.
Out
of Ireland. [Dublin]:
Peppercanister [1987]. Peppercanister
series #11. 1st edition. Limited to 26 lettered copies. This is letter S. Signed by the author. Slipcase.
Out
of Ireland. [Dublin]:
Peppercanister [1987]. Edition
limited to 100 copies. Signed
by the author. Dust jacket.
Out
of Ireland. [Dublin]:
Peppercanister [1987]. Edition
limited to 350 copies.
The
Pen Shop. [Dublin]:
Peppercanister [Distributed in Ireland by The Dedalus Press and
in the United Kingdom by Carcanet Press, 1997].
Peppercanister series #19. 1st
edition. Limited to 250 copies. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
Personal
Places. [Dublin]: Peppercanister [1990]. Peppercanister series #14. 1st edition. Limited to 150 copies. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
Poems. [Engraving by
Elizabeth Rivers] [Glenageary,
Dublin]: The Dolmen Press [1956].
1st edition. Limited to 250 numbered copies. This is no. 185. Dust jacket.
Poems
& Translations. New York:
Atheneum, 1961. 1st edition. Dust jacket.
Poems
from Centre City. [Dublin]:
Peppercanister [1990]. Peppercanister
series #15. 1st edition. Limited to 150 copies. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
St.
Catherine’s Clock. [Dublin]: Peppercanister [1987]. Peppercanister series #12. 1st edition. Limited to 26 lettered copies. This is letter K. Signed by the author. Slipcase.
St.
Catherine’s Clock. [Dublin}:
Peppercanister [1987]. Limited
to 100 copies. Dust jacket.
Selected
Poems 1956-1968. [Dublin]:
The Dolmen Press [1973]. 1st edition.
Signed by the author. Dust
jacket.
A
Short Sequence. [Storrs, Connecticut:
The University of Connecticut Library, 1975.
4 pp. Edition limited to 300 copies. Issued on the occasion of a reading by the
poet at The University of Connecticut Library on April 22, 1975.
Song
of the Night and Other Poems. [Dublin]: Peppercanister
[1978]. Peppercanister series
#7. 1st edition.
[Library edition, limited to 50 copies].
Original plain white cover.
Song of the Night and Other Poems. [Dublin]: Peppercanister [1978]. Edition limited to 300 copies. Signed by the author.
Songs
of the Psyche. [Dublin]:
Peppercanister [1985]. Peppercanister
series #9. 1st edition. Limited to 25 lettered copies. This is letter U. Signed by the author. Slipcase.
Songs
of the Psyche. [Dublin]:
Peppercanister [1985]. 1st
edition. Limited to 50 numbered copies. This is no. 5. Signed by the author. Dust
jacket.
The
Starlit Eye. Drawings
by Liam Miller. Dublin: The Dolmen Press, 1952. 1st edition. Limited to 175 copies. Signed by the author. Author’s 1st book.
Tear. Cambridge, Massachusetts:
Pym-Randall Press, 1969. 1st
edition. Limited to 26 lettered copies. This is letter t. Signed by the author.
Tear. Cambridge, Massachusetts:
Pym-Randall Press, 1969. 1st
edition. Limited to 200 numbered copies. This is no. 180. Signed by the author.
A
Technical Supplement. [Dublin]:
Peppercanister [1976]. Peppercanister
series #6. 1st edition. Limited to XXV numbered copies. This is no. XV. Signed by the author. Contains
an additional poem of 24 lines, in manuscript. Illustrated by “details selected from the
volumes of plates issued with Diderot’s Encyclopedie…” .
Slipcase.
A
Technical Supplement. [Dublin]:
Peppercanister [1976]. Limited
to 550 copies. Signed by the author. Unprinted dust jacket.
Thomas
Kinsella: a poetry reading at the Peacock Theatre. [Dublin]: Peacock Theatre, 1967. Contains the poem “Before Sleep”. [Program].
Three
Irish Poets. [see Montague,
John].
Three
Legendary Sonnets. [Dublin]:
The Dolmen Press [1952]. 1st
edition. Limited to 100 numbered copies. This is unnumbered. Signed by the author.
Trinity. [Dublin: Pepercanister; Portland, Oregon: Charles Seluzicki Fine & Rare Books,
2000. Edition limited to 100
numbered copies. This is no.
43. Signed by the author. [Poem card].
Vertical
Man: a sequel to A Selected Life. [Dublin]: Peppercanister [1973]. Peppercanisterseries #3. 1st edition. Edition limited to 100 numbered copies.
This is no. 85. Signed by the author.
Vertical
Man: a sequel to A Selected Life. [Dublin]:
Peppercanister [1973]. 1st
edition. Limited to 350 copies.
Wormwood. [Dublin]:
Dolmen Editions [1966]. 1st
edition. Limited to 350 copies. Signed by the author. Original glassine cover.
Longes
Mac nUsnig: Being the Exile and Death of the Sons of
Usnech. [Translated by Thomas Kinsella from the Irish in the Book of Leinster.
Illustrations by Mia Cranwell].
[Dublin]: The Dolmen Press, [1954]. 1st edition. Limited to 225 copies. This is no. 208.
Longes
Mac nUsnig: The Exile of the Sons of Usnech & the
Exile of Fergus & the Death of the Sons of Usnech & Deirdre. Translated
by Thomas Kinsella from the Irish.
[Dublin]: The Dolmen
Press [1960]. Revised edition. Signed by Kinsella.
Patrick,
Saint. The Breastplate
of Saint Patrick. Translated
[from the Irish, Faeth Fiadha] into English by Thomas Kinsella.
[Dublin: The Dolmen Press, 1954]. 1st edition. Limited to 15 numbered copies bound in leather.
This is no. 12. Signed by Kinsella and by the book designer,H.
Neville Roberts. Slipcase.
Patrick,
Saint. The Breastplate of Saint Patrick. Translated [from the Irish, Faeth Fiadha
(the Deer’s Cry)] into English by Thomas Kinsella. [Dublin: The Dolmen Press,
1954]. Edition limited to 275
copies. Signed by Kinsella.
The
Tain. Translated by Thomas Kinsella from the Irish [Táin Bo
Cuailnge]. Brush drawings by
Louis LeBrocquy. [Dublin: The Dolmen Press, 1969]. Dolmen editions IX. 1st edition. Limited to 750 copies. Dust jacket in slipcase.
Thirty
Three Triads. Translated by
Thomas Kinsella from the xii century Irish.
Decorated by Pauline Bewick.
[Dublin: The Dolment
Press], 1955. 1st
edition. Limited to 75 numbered copies. This is no. 74. Signed by Kinsella and by the illustrator. Original glassine cover.
In
a Blue Smoke. [Dublin]:
The Dolmen Press [1964]. 1st
edition. Author's 1st book of poetry. Dust jacket
A
Lite of Stephen Dedalus. San Francisco:
White Rabbit Press, 1969. 1st
edition. Limited to 474 copies. Inscribed by the author.
A
White Thought in a White Sheet; new and selected poems. [Dublin]:
Kerr’s Pinks [1987]. 1st
edition. Inscribed by the author.
Anticleia. “Carrigskeewaun,
28 August 1989”. Poem in manuscript;
18 lines on one page. Signed by the author.
Birds
& Flowers, poems. [Edinburgh]:
Morning Star Folio, 1994. 6pp. Edition limited to 26 lettered
copies. This is letter R. Signed by the author.
Birds
& Flowers, poems. [Edinburgh]:
Morning Star Folio, 1994. 6pp. Edition limited to 300 numbered
copies. This is
Broken
Dishes. [Newry and Craigavad,
Down]: Abbey Press, 1998.
1st edition. Limited to 250 numbered copies. This is no. 203. Signed by the author. Dust
jacket.
The
Echo Gate, poems 1975-79. London: Secker & Warburg
[1979]. 1st edition.
Inscribed by the author and dated:
“12.3.82”. Dust jacket.
An
Exploded View, poems 1968-72. London: Victor Gollancz,
1973. 1st edition.
Signed by the author and dated:
‘2 June 91”. Dust jacket.
Fishing
in the Sky: Love Poems. [Pinner, London:
Poet & Printer, 1975]. 1st
edition. Inscribed to Ulster painter Colin Middleton
and to his wife, poet Kate Middleton. Dated: “29.x.75”.
The
Ghost Orchid. [London]:
Cape Poetry [Jonathan Cape, 1995].
1st edition. Limited
to 750 numbered copies. This
is no. 133. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
Gorse
Fires. [London]:
Secker & Warburg [1991].
1st edition. Inscribed by the author and dated: “2 June
91”.
Gorse
Fires. [Winston-Salem,
North Carolina]: Wake Forest
University Press [1991]. 1st
American Edition. Signed by
the author. Dust jacket.
Laertes. “Cardose, 6 July
1989.” Poem in manuscript; 18
lines on one page. Signed by
the author.
Lares;
poems. Illustrated
by Brian Ferran. Woodford Green,
Essex: Poet & Printer, 1972. 1st edition.
The
Linen Workers. [Winston-Salem,
North Carolina]: Wake Forest
University Press [1986]. Signed
by the author.
No
Continuing City; poems 1963-1968. [Dublin]: Gill and Macmillan
[1969]. 1st edition.
No
Continuing City; poems 1963-1968. [London]: Macmillan [1969].
Signed by the author.
Out
of the Cold: Drawings and Poems for Christmas [by] Michael
Longley & Sarah Longley. [Newry and Craigavad, Down]: Abbey Press [1999]. 1st edition. Limited to 50 numbered copies. This is no. 24. Signed by the author and by the illustrator Sarah Longley. Slipcase.
Out
of the Cold: Drawings and Poems for Christmas [by] Michael
Longley & Sarah Longley. [Newry and Craigavad, Down]: Abbey Press [1999]. Edition limited to 500 copies. This is no. 279. Signed by the author and by the illustrator.
Patchwork. Drawings by
Jim Allen. [Dublin]: The Gallery Press [1981]. 1st edition. Limited to 500 copies. Signed by the author and by the illustrator.
Poems
1963-1983. [Harmondsworth,
Middlesex]: Penguin Books [1968].
King Penguin. Signed
by the author.
Secret
Marriages. [Didsbury, Manchester:
Phoenix Pamphlet Poets Press, 1968].
1st edition. Limited
to 50 numbered copies. This
is no. 42. Signed by the author.
Secret
Marriages. [Didsbury, Manchester:
Phoenix Pamphlet Poets Press, 1968].
Edition limited to 950 copies.
Selected
Poems. [London]:
Cape Poetry [Jonathan Cape, 1998].
1st edition. Signed
by the author. Dust jacket.
Selected
Poems. [Winston-Salem,
North Carolina: Wake Forest
University Press [1999]. 1st
American edition. Includes publisher’s
typed letter signed soliciting a review.
The
Ship of the Wind, eight poems. [Dublin]: Poetry Ireland
Pamphlets, 1997. Edition limited
to 250 numbered copies. This
is no. 39. Signed by the author.
Ten
Poems. [Belfast]:
Festival Publications, Queens University of Belfast [1965]. 1st edition. Author’s
1st publication.
An
Upstairs Outlook. [see Heaney,
Seamus].
The
Weather in Japan. [London]:
Cape Poetry [Jonathan Cape, 2000].
1st edition. Limited
to 150 numbered copies. This
is no. 120. Signed by the author. Dust jacket. The
Weather in Japan. [London]:
Cape Poetry [Jonathan Cape, 2000].
Signed by the author.
Mac ENTEE, MARIE [Mhac an t Saoi, Marie]
A
Heart Full of Thought. Translations
by Marie MacEntee from the Irish. [Dublin:
The Dolmen Press, 1959]. 1st
edition. Limited to 100 numbered copies. This is no. 32. Signed by MacEntee. Unprinted
tissue dust jacket.
Collected
Poems 1943- 1995. Introduced by
Philip Hobsbaum. Belfast: Lagan Press, 1995. 1st edition. Signed by the author.
Collected
Poems. Edited by Thomas
Dillon Redshaw. Forword by Samuel
Beckett. [Dublin]: New Writers’ Press [1971].
Captain
Lavender. [Oldcastle,
Meath]: Gallery Books [1994]. 1st edition. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
The
Flower Master. Oxford [and]
New York: Oxford University
Press, 1982. 1st
edition. Inscribed by the author.
Portrait
of Joanne. [Belfast]:
Ulster Publications [1980].
1st edition. Author's 2nd publication.
Shelmalier. [Oldcastle,
Meath]: Gallery Books [1998]. 1st edition. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
The
Language of Birds. Dublin:
New Island Books [1995]. 1st
edition. Limited to 150 numbered
copies. This is no. 82. Signed by the author. Includes a broadside insert, “His Death”,
from this collection, which is also limited to 150 copies and signed
by the author. Dust jacket.
The
Burning Perch. London: Faber and Faber [1963]. 1st edition. Inscribed to Beckett actor Jack MacGowran
by his wife, Gloria, and dated: “September
1963”. Dust jacket.
The
Revenant; a song-cycle for Hedli Anderson. Dulin: The
Cuala Press, 1975. 1st
edition. Limited to 350 numbered
copies. This is no. 233.
Ten
Burnt Offerings. London: Faber and Faber [1952]. 1st edition. Inscribed to American writer, Eleanor Clark,
wife of American novelist and poet, Robert Penn Warren: “for Eleanor/with love/from Louis/Sept. ‘52”.
Dust jacket.
Ten
Burnt Offerings. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1953.
1st American edition.
American poet Richard Eberhart’s copy, and signed by him.
Dust jacket.
Visitations. London: Faber and Faber [1957]. 1st edition. Inscribed to American writier, Eleanor Clark.
Dust jacket, with wrap-around sleeve announcing this as a Poetry
Book Society Choice.
Antarctica. [Dublin]:
Gallery Books [1985]. 1st
edition. Signed by the author.
Beyond
Howith Head. [Dulin]: The Dolmen Press [1970]. Poetry Ireland Editions. 1st edition. Inscribed by the author.
Collected
Poems. [Oldcastle,
Meath]: Gallery Books [1999]. 1st edition Limited to 110 numbered copies. This is no. 57. Signed by the author. Slipcase.
Courtyards
in Delft. [Dublin]:
Gallery Books [1981]. 1st
edition. Limited to 325 copies. Inscribed by the author and dated: “April ‘81”. Dust Jacket.
Derek
Mahon Reads His Poetry. [Phonodisc]. [Baile Atha
Cliath (Dublin): Claddagh Records
(Ceirini Cladaig) CCT 11, 1973. One
12” 33 1/3 rpm sound recording. Notes
on the poetry by Irish poet, Richard Ryan on the album’s back cover.
Design
for a Grecian Urn, poems. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Erato
Publishing, 1966. 1st
edition. Limited to 75 numbered
copies. This is no. 10. Erato poets, pamphlet # 2.
Ecclesiastes. [Didsbury, Manchester:
Phoenix Pamphlet Poets, 1970].
Phoenix Pamphlet Poets #9. 1st
edition. Limited to 60 numbered copies. This is #43. Signed by the author. Dust
jacket.
The
Hunt by Night. [Oxford]:
Oxford University Press, 1982.
1st edition. Signed
by the author.
In
Their Element. [see Heaney,
Seamus]
A
Kensington Notebook. [London]:
Anvil Press Poetry [1983]. 1st
book edition. Limited to 250
numbered copies that are signed by the author. This is no. 7.
A Kensington Notebook. [London]: Anvil Press Poetry [1983]. Edition limited to 250 copies numbered 251-500, without a designated author's signature. This is no. 287. Signed by the author on the title page.
Lives. London: Oxford University Press, 1972. 1st edition. Signed by the author.
The
Man Who Built His City in Snow; (in memoriam Wallace Stevens 1879 –
1955). [London]:
Poem-of-the-Month Club, 1972.
Signed by the author. [Broadside]
Poems
1962-1978. Oxford; New
York; Toronto; Melbourne: Oxford
University Press, 1979. 1st
edition. Dust jacket.
Resistance
Days. [Drawings by
Michael Kane]. [Oldcastle, Meath]:
Gallery Books [2001]. 1st edition. Limited to 175 numbered copies. This is no. 115. Signed by the author and by the artist.
Roman
Script. Drawings by
Anne Madden. [Oldcastle, Meath]: Gallery
Books [1999]. 1st
edition. Limited to 75 numbered
copies. This is no. 40. Signed by the author and by the artist.
Roman
Script. Drawings by
Anne Madden. [Oldcastle, Meath]: Gallery
Books [1999]. Limited to 350
copies.
The
Sea in Winter. Illustrations
by Timothy Engelland. [Old Deerfield, Massachusetts]: The Deerfield Press; [Dublin]: The Gallery
Press [1979]. 1st
edition. Limited to 300 copies. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
Twelve
Poems. [Belfast]:
Festival Publications, Queen’s University of Belfast [1965]. 1st edition, 1st issue. Author’s 1st book.
The
Yaddo Letter. Frontispiece
by Barrie Cooke. [Oldcaste,
Meath]: Gallery Books [1992]. 1st edition. Limited to 350 copies.
Nerval,
Gerard de. The Chimeras; a version of Les chimères…
[by] [Derek Mahon. [Dublin]: Gallery Books [1982]. 1st edition. Signed by Mahon.
Valery,
Paul. The Seaside Cemetary; a version of ‘Le
cimetière marin’… [Translated by Derek Mahon]. Drawings by Fionnuala Ni Chiosain. [Oldcastle, Meath]: Gallery
Books [2001]. 1st
edition. Limited to 175 numbered
copies. This is no. 114. Signed by Mahon and by the artist.
Windfalls. [Dublin]:
The Dolmen Press [1977]. 1st
edition. Inscribed by the author and dated: “July 3rd 1983”.
The
Noise of the Fields; poems 1970-1975. [Dublin]:
The Dolmen Press [1976]. Poetry
Book Society choice. 1st
edition. Signed by publisher,
Liam Miller.
Passage;
(with surviving poems). Bradford on Avon [Witshire]:
[n.p.] 1982. 1st
edition. Limited to 26 lettered
copies. This is letter M. Signed by the author.
6
Snapdragons. Clemson [North
Carolina]: [Author] 1985. 1st edition. Limited to 400 copies. Signed by the author.
Into
the Wind. [Belfast]:
Ulsterman Publications [1974].
1st edition.
Deus
Est Qui Regit Omnia; a poem.
[Morningstar, Meath]: St.
Beuno’s [1980]. St. Beuno’s
Hard-Printed Limited Editions, #9.
1st edition. Limited
to 160 numbered copies. This
is no. 3. Signed by the author. “Printed and bound by hand by John F. and
Barbara Deane.
Spring
Offering. Isle of Skye
[Inverness-shire]: Aquila [1981]. Aquila Pamphlet Poetry second series. 1st edition. Limited to 50 numbered copies.
This is no. 35. Signed
by the author.
All
Legendary Obstacles. Drawing by Barrie
Cooke. [Dublin]: Dolmen Editions [1966]. 1st edition. Limited to 350 copies. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
Border
Sick Call. [Photographs
by Paulette Myers – Rich]. [Minneapolis,
Minnesota]: Traffic Street Press,
2001. Edition limited to XV
numbered copies. This is no. XII. Signed
by the author and initialed by the photographer. Box.
The
Bread God; a lecture, with illustrations in verse on the recent history
of the church in the ancient parish of Errigal Kieran, already referred
to in the Annals of the Four Masters as being a monastic center twelve
centuries ago. [Dublin]: Dolmen Editions [1968]. 1st edition. Limited to 250 copies. Signed by the author.
Chain
Letter. [Dublin]:
Poetry Ireland, 1997. Poetry
Ireland Pamplets, 1st series. 1st edition.
Limited to 250 numbered copies.
This is no. 24. Signed
by the author.
A
Chosen Light. [Drawing by
Louis Le Brocquy]. [London]: McGibbon & Kee [1967]. 1st edition. Inscribed by the author and dated: “Feb. ‘78”. Dust jacket.
The
Dead Kingdom. [Mountrath,
Portlaoise]: The Dolmen Press;
[Dundonald, Strathclyde]: Blackstaff
Press; [Oxford]: Oxford University
Press [1984]. 1st
edition. Limited to 725 numbered copies. This is no. 106. Signed by the author. Slipcase.
The
Dead Kingdom. [Winston-Salem,
North Carolina]: Wake Forest
University Press; [Toronto]: Exile Editions [1984]. 1st
American edition. Inscribed
by the author to the American poet, David Ignatow, and dated:
“Spring ‘89’. Includes Ignatow’s book-plate.
The
Dead Kingdom. Part II:
This Neutral Realm. North Tonawanda, New York: Bolt Court Press [1984]. Edition limited to 26 lettered copies.
This is letter S. Signed by the author.
Deities. Illustration
by Henry Pearson. [New York]: At-Swim Press [c/o Facsimile Book Shop, 1982].
1st edition. Limited to 300 copies. Signed by the author.
A
Flowering Absence. New York:
At-Swim Press [1986]. 1st edition. Limited to 300 numbered copies. This is no. 75. Signed by the author.
Forms
of Exile. [Dublin]:
The Dolmen Press [1958]. 1st
edition. Limited to 225 copies. Author’s 1st book.
The
Great Cloak. [Woodcut by
Raoul Ubac]. [Dublin]: The Dolmen
Press, 1978. 1st
edition. Limited to 75 numbered
and specially bound copies. This
is no. 33. Signed by the author. Slipcase.
The
Great Cloak. [Dublin]:
The Dolmen Press; [Oxford]:
Oxford University Press; [Winston-Salem, North Carolina]:
Wake Forest University Press [1978].
Inscribed by the author.
Home
Again. [Belfast]:
Festival Publications, Queen’s University of Belfast [1967]. 1st edition, variant issue with green covers.
Hymn
to the New Omagh Road. Dublin: Privately printed at the Dolmen Press, 1968.
1st edition. Limited to 175 copies. Signed by the author.
Last
Chance. [Buffalo, New
York]: State University of New
York at Buffalo, The University Libraries, 1988.
Christmas Broadside, 2nd series, no. 10. Edition limited to 2000 copies. [Poem card].
The
Leap. Illustrations
by Timothy Engelland. [Old Deerfield,
Massachusetts]: The Deerfield
Press. [Dublin]: The Gallery Press [1979]. 1st edition. Limited to 300 copies. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
Mount
Eagle. [Oldcastle,
Meath]: Gallery Books [1988]. 1st edition. Inscribed by the author and dated: “Sligo
92”.
A
New Siege, an historical meditation. [Dublin: The Dolmen Press,
1970]. Part of a longer poem,
The Rough Field. Inscribed by
the author. Folded card.
The
Northern Muse. [see Heaney,
Seamus].
O’Riada’s
Farewell. [Cork]: Golden Stone [1974]. 1st edition. Signed by the author.
Patriotic
Suite. [Dublin]: The Dolmen Press [1966]. The New Dolmen Chapbooks. 1st edition. Limited to 100 numbered copies. This is no. 94. Signed by the author.
Poisoned
Lands and Other Poems. London: MacGibbon &
Kee, 1961. 1st edition.
Author’s 2nd book.
Dust jacket.
Poisoned
Lands and Other Poems. Philadelphia: Dufour Editions,
1963. 1st American
edition. Inscribed by the author.
The
Rough Field. [Dublin]: The Dolmen Press [1972]. 1st edition. Limited to 150 numbered and specially bound
copies. This is no. 64. Signed by the author. Publisher’s acetate dust jacket.
Selected
Poems. [Mountrath,
Portlaoise]: The Dolmen Press
[1982]. 1st edition. Limited to 150 numbered copies. This is no. 148. Signed by the author. Slipcase.
Selected
Poems. [Winston-Salem,
North Carolina]: Wake Forest
University Press [1982]. 1st
American edition. Inscribed
by the author to American poet, David Ignatow. Includes Ignatow’s bookplate.
A
Slow Dance. [Frontispiece
by Jack Coughlin]. [Dublin]: The Dolmen Press [1975]. 1st edition. Limited to 150 numbered copies. This is no. 74. Signed by the author. Signed
by the artist under his drawing. Slipcase.
Small
Secrets. [London]:
Poem-of-the-Month-Club, 1972.
Signed by the author. [Broadside].
Three
Irish Poets: John Montague, Thomas Kinsella, Richard Murphy. Dublin: The Dolmen Press,
1961. A poetry reading presented
by The Dolmen Press at the Royal Hibernian Hotel, Dublin [on] February
3, 1961. Edition limited to
250 copies. Contains one poem
by each poet. Signed by Kinsella
at his contribution. [Program]
Tides. [Dublin]:
The Dolmen Press [1970]. 1st
edition. Inscribed by the author. Dust jacket.
A
Fair House: versions of Irish poetry. [Translated by
John Montague]. Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1972. 1st edition. Limted to 350 numbered copies. This is no. 78. Plain white dust jacket.
Frenaud,
Andre. November. A choice of translations from Andre Frenaud by John Montague and
Evelyn Robson. Original woodcut
by Raoul Buac. [Cork: Golden Stone, 1977]. 1st edition. Signed by both Montague and Robson.
The
Bangle: (Slight Return). Princeton [New
Jersey]: The Typography Studio,
1998. 1st edition. Limited to 110 numbered copies. This is no. 40. Signed by the author.
Hopewell
Haiku. Illustrated
by Carol J. Blinn. [Easthampton,
Massachusetts]: Warwick Press,
1997. 1st edition. Limited to 150 copies. Signed by the author and by the illustrator.
Decorated hard cover.
Immram. Drawings by
Robert Ballagh. Dublin: [The Gallery Press] 1980. 1st
edition. Limited to 174 numbered
copies. This is no. 41.
Signed by the author. “Bound
in quarter cloth”.
Knowing
My Place. [Belfast?: Privately printed for] Paul Muldoon, 1971.
1st edition. Author’s 1st publication.
Meeting
the British. [Winston-Salem,
North Carolina]: Wake Forest
University Press [1987]. 1st
American edition. Signed by
the author.
Mules
& Early Poems. [Winston-Salem,
North Carolina]: Wake Forest
University Press [1985]. 1st
edition. Signed by the author.
Names
and Addresses. [Belfast]:
Ulsterman Publications [1978].
1st edition. Signed
by the author.
New
Selected Poems 1968-1994. London/Boston: Faber and
Faber [1996]. 1st
edition. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
New
Weather. London: Faber and Faber [1973]. 1st edition. Uncorrected proof copy.
New
Weather. London/Boston:
Faber and Faber [1994]. Signed
by the author.
Out
of Siberia. Illustrations
by Timothy Engelland. [Old Deerfield,
Massachusetts]: The Deerfield
Press; [Dublin]: The Gallery
Press [1982]. 1st edition. Limited to 300 copies. Signed by the author.
The
Prince of the Quotidian. [Winston-Salem,
North Carolina]: Wake Forest
University Press [1994]. 1st
American edition. Signed by
the author and dated: “1996”.
Quoof. London/Boston:
Faber and Faber [1983]. 1st
edition. Inscribed by the author and dated: “October 83”.
Quoof. [Winston-Salem,
North Carolina]: Wake Forest
University Press [1983]. 1st
American edition. Signed by
the author.
Selected
Poems 1968-1983. London/Boston:
Faber and Faber [1986]. 1st
edition. Inscribed by the author and dated: “1992”.
Dust jacket.
Selected
Poems 1968-1986. New York: The Ecco Press [1987]. 1st edition. Inscribed by the author and dated: “Oct 89”.
Dust jacket.
Why
Brownlee Left. [Winston-Salem,
North Carolina]: Wake Forest
University Press [1980]. 1st
American edition. Signed by
the author and dated: “1996”.
The
Wishbone. [Dublin]:
The Gallery Press [1984]. 1st
edition. Limited to 750 copies. Signed by the author.
Extracts
from the Lost Log-Book of Christopher Columbus. [Dublin]:
Dedalus, 1999. 1st
edition. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
The
Archaeology of Love. [Glengeary,
Dublin]: The Dolmen Press [1955].
1st edition. From the library of Irish poet, Thomas Kinsella,
and signed by him. Author’s
1st book.
The
Battle of Aughrim. [Phonodisc]. Baile Átha Cliath (Dublin): Claddagh Records (Ceirini Cladaig) CCT.7,
1968. One 12” 331/3 rpm sound
recording. Read by Cyril Cusack,
C. Day-Lewis, Ted Hughes, Niall Toibin [and] Margaret Robertson. Music by Sean O’Riada, “played under his
direction by Ceoltóin Chualaan”. Historical
notes by the author.
The
Battle of Aughrim and The God Who Eats Corn. London:
Faber and Faber [1968]. Choice
of the Poetry Book Soceity. 1st
edition. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
Care. [Amsterdam]:
Cornamona Press, 1983. 1st
edition. Limited to 50 copies, numbered I-L. This is no. XI. Signed by the author. Bound
together in twin-binding with Zorg Zaamheid, the translation
of Care into Dutch by Jan Eijkelboom.
Also no. XI of 50 copies. Signed
by the translator. Buckran with
hand-marbled endpapers. Box.
Collected
Poems. [Oldcastle,
Meath]: Gallery Books [2000]. 1st edition. Limited to 710 numbered copies. This is no. 39. Signed by the author. Slipcase.
High
Island. London: Faber and Faber [1974]. 1st edition. Uncorrected proof copy.
High
Island. New York/ Evanston/
San Francisco/ London: Harper
& Row: [1974]. 1st
American edition. Inscribed
by the author and dated: “23
April 1975”. Dust jacket.
High
Island. [Tacoma, Washington]:
Printed for Pacific Lutheran University by the Elliot Press,
1985. Limited edition of slightly less than 100 copies. Illustrated letterpress. Signed by the author. [Broadside].
The
Last Galway Hooker. [Dublin]:
The Dolmen Press [1961]. 1st
edition. Limited to 300 copies.
The
Mirror Wall. [Dublin]:
Wolfhound Press [1989]. 1st
edition. “Published simultaneously in Britain by Bloodaxe
Books and in North American by Wake Forest University Press”. Signed by the author and dated: “22 June 1989 Dublin”. Dust jacket.
The
Mirror Wall. [Newcastle upon
Tyne, Northumberland]: Bloodaxe
Books [1989]. 1st
English edition. Inscribed to
Irish poet, Thomas Kinsella and his wife and dated:
“13 May 1990.” Dust jacket.
The
Mirror Wall. [Winston-Salem,
North Carolina]: Wake Forest
University Press [1989]. 1st
American edition. Inscribed
by the author: “To Leonard Nathan
whose translation of Kalidasa’s The Cloud Messenger [Meghaduta,
a 5th century A. D. Sanskrit poem] inspired and instructed
me while working on these poems 18
March 1990 at Berkeley, on a tour”.
The author then adds his Irish address and phone number. Dust jacket.
Niches. Illustrated
by Timothy Engelland. [Old Deerfield,
Massachusetts]: The Deerfield
Press; [Dublin]: The Gallery
Press [1978]. Limited edition
of 250 copies. Signed by the
author. Dust jacket.
The
Price of Stone. [Madley, Hereford
& Worcester: Five Seasons
Press, 1985]. First Hand Editions. 1st edition. Limited to 115 numbered copies. This is designated “Five Seasons file copy”.
Signed by the author. Slipcase.
The
Price of Stone & Earlier Poems. [Winston-Salem, North Carolina]: Wake Forest University Press [1985]. 1st American edition. Inscribed by the author and dated: “18 September 1987 London”. The author includes a Sri Lankan proverb: “One crab said to another 'My son, Why do
you have to walk sideways',” He
adds his Irish address. Dust
jacket.
Sailing
to an Island. London: Faber and Faber [1963]. 1st edition.
Dust jacket.
Sailing
to an Island. New York:
Chilmark Press [1963]. 1st American edition. Inscribed by the author and dated: “Buffalo 23 October 1964”. Includes publisher’s presentation card. Dust jacket.
Selected
Poems. London &
Boston: Faber and Faber [1979]. Faber Paperbacks. Inscribed by the author and dated: “22 Feb 85”.
Three
Irish Poets. [see Montague,
John].
The
Woman of the House; an elegy. [Dublin]: The Dolmen Press,
1959. 1st edition. Limited to 250 copies.
NEWMAN, JOAN
Thin
Ice. [Newry [and]
Craigavad, Down]: Abbey Press
[1998]. 1st edition. Limited to 250 numbered copies. This is no. 227. Signed by the author.
Arts
And Monuments. Dublin: Gallery Books [1972]. 1st edition. Limited to 300 copies. Signed by the author. Author’s 1st book. Dust jacket.
The
Brazen Serpent. [Oldcastle,
Meath]: Gallery Books [1994]. 1st edition. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
The
Magdalene Sermon. [Oldcastle,
Meath]: Gallery Books [1989]. 1st edition. Dust jacket.
The
Magdalene Sermon and Earlier Poems. [Winston-Salem, North Carolina]: Wake Forest University Press [1991]. 1st American edition.
The
Real Thing. Bloomfield Hills,
Michigan: Cranbrook Art Museum,
1995. Edition limited to 200
numbered copies. This is no.
124. Signed by the author. [Broadside].
The
Second Voyage; poems. [Dublin]: Gallery Books [1977]. 1st edition. Limited to 250 copies. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
The
Second Voyage. [Winston-Salem,
North Carolina]: Wake Forest
University Press [1991]. 1st
American edition. Inscribed
by the author and dated: “29.4.97”.
Pharaoh’s
Daughter. [Oldcastle Meath]:
Gallery Books [1994]. Selected poems in Irish with translations
into English, on facing pages, “by thirteen leading Irish writers. Inscribed by the author. Included author’s photograph identified as
recent by a note dated: 1/24/02.
Watching
the Mountain. [Painting by
Veronica Bolay]. [Galway]: Kennys, 2002.
“Painting and poem commissioned by Kennys to celebrate the Arts
in Galway in the Millenium. Edition
limited to 2003 numbered copies. This
is no. 266. Signed by the author
and by the artist. [Poem card]
The
History of Rain. [Oldcastle,
Meath]: Gallery Books [1993]. 1st edition. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
Seatown. [Oldcastle,
Meath]: Gallery Books [1999]. 1st edition. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.
The
Little Monasteries, Poems. Translated from the Irish by Frank O’Connor. Dublin:
The Dolmen Press; London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1963.
1st edition. Limited
to 1050 numbered copies. This
is no. 2. Publisher Liam Miller’s
copy. Slipcase.
Four
Poems. Illustrations
by Timothy Engelland. [Old Deerfield,
Massachusetts]: The Deerfield
Press; [Dubln]: The Gallery Press; [1980]. 1st edition. Limited to 300 copies. Text in Irish and in English translation
on facing pages. Signed by the author.
Dust jacket.
Reading
the Sunflowers in September. [Upper Fairhill, Galway: Salmon
Publishing, 1990]. 1st
edition. Author’s 1st
book.
Echoes
of Memory. Etchings by
Patricia Burke. [Baldoyle, Dublin:
Salmon Publishing, 1994]. Salmon
Poetry. 1st edition. Inscribed by the author.
The
Battle of Kinsale 1601. Kinsale [Cork]:
Anam Press, 2002. 1st edition. Limited to 300 copies.
Hellas. Dublin: New Writer’s Press, 1971. 1st edition. Limited to 500 copies. Inscribed by the author and dated: “Rome 1973”.
His
Skaldcrane’s Nest. [Dublin]:
Gallery Books [1979]. 1st
edition. Signed by the author on the title page and
dated: “1980 London”. Also inscribed by the author on the half-title
page.
Poems [by] Patrick
Creagh, Norman Porter [and] Desmond O’Grady.
Read in the Roman Theatre at Tusculum on Friday June 24th
1960. Rome: Poetry [1960]. 1st
edition. Signed by all three
authors.
Poems [by] Patrick Creagh, Norman Porter [and] Desmond O’Grady.
Read in the Roman Tusculum on Friday June 24th 1960.
Rome: Poetry [1960]. Includes a signed letter, loosely inserted,
by Porter to Samuel French Morse, American poet and literary scholar.
Stations. Drawings by
Margo Veillon [Cairo]: American
University in Cairo Press, 1976. 1st
edition. Limited to 250 numbered
copies. This is no. 23. Signed by the author and dated: “Cairo 1976”.0
The
Seven Arab Odes. An English verse rendering by Desmond O’Grady
with brief lives of the seven poets.
[London]: Agenda Editions
[1990]. 1st edition. Limited to 50 numbered copies. This is no. 22. Signed by O’Grady. Slipcase.
The
Peacock’s Eye. Upper Fairhill,
Galway: Salmon Publishing [1992]. 1st
edition. Signed by the author. Author’s 1st book. Dust jacket.
Being
Walked by a Dog. [Belfast]:
Ulsterman Publications [1978].
1st edition. Inscribed
by the author and dated: “26th
Business
As Usual. [Belfast]:
Ulsterman Publications [1973].
1st edition. Signed
by the author and dated: “16th
Oct. 1975”.
A
Northern Spring. London: Secker & Warburg; Dublin: The
Gallery Press [1986]. 1st
edition. Signed by the author.
The
Casualty’s Meditation. [Belfast]: Festival Publicatons, Queen’s University
of Belfast [1966]. 1st
edition. Author’s 1st
publication.
“The
Argument at Great Tew”; a poem. [Dublin]:
The Willbrook Press [1985].
1st book edition.
Limited to 120 numbered copies. This
is no. 23. Signed by the author.
The
Book of Juniper; new poems. Drawings by Noel Connor. [Newcastle
upon Tyne, Northumberland]: Bloodaxe Books [1981]. 1st
edition. Signed by the author
and by the illustrator.
Liberty
Tree. London [and]
Boston: Faber and Faber [1983]. 1st edition. Signed by the author.
Selected
Poems 1972 – 1990. London [and]
Boston: Faber and Faber [1993]. 1st edition. Signed by the author and dated: “5th April, 1993”.
Theorectical
Locations. [Belfast]:
Ulsterman Publications [1975].
1st edition. Author’s
1st publication.
Cleaning
Stables. [Belfast]: Ulsterman Publications [1974]. 1st edition. Author’s 1st publication.
The
Mason’s Tongue. [Newry and Craigavad,
Down]: Abbey Press [1999].
1st edition. Limited to 500 numbered copies. This is no. 245. Signed by the author. Dust
jacket.
Europa
and the Bull and Other Poems. London: Secker & Warburg, 1952. 1st edition. Signed by the author and dated: “August 7, 1952”. Dust jacket.
Field
Day. [San Francisco:
Grabhorn – Hoyem, 1967]. [Broadside]
The
Home Fire. [Newry and Craigawvad,
Down]: Abbey Press [1998].
1st edition. Limited to 250 numbered copies. This is no. 135. Signed by the author.
The
Broken Pledge, and other poem.
[Illustration by Edward Maguire].
[Dublin]: Martello Publications
[1985]. 1st edition.
Author’s 1st book.
Ledges. [Dublin]:
The Dolmen Press [1970]. 1st
edition. Author’s 1st book.
Ballad
of a Marriage. [Belfast]:
Festival Publications, Queen’s University of Belfast [1966]. 1st edition. Author’s
1st publication.
Five
American Sonnets. [n.p.: n.p.],
1980. Xerox transcript – 3 sheets.
Inscribed by the author to American anthologist, Bill Cole.
Dated: “May ‘80”.
From
the Irish. [Belfast:
The Blackstaff Press, 1985].
1st edition. Signed
by the author.
Judy
Garland and the Cold War.
Belfast: Blackstaff Press
[1976]. 1st edition. Inscribed by the author and dated: “Nov
77”.
Memorials
of a Tour in Yorkshire. [Belfast]: Ulsterman Publications
[1975]. 1st edition.
Inscribed by the author and dated “Nov 77”.
No
Land Is Waste, Dr. Eliot. [Richmond, Surrey]:
The Keepsake Press [1972]. 1st
edition. Limited to 30 numbered copies. This is no. 15. Signed by the author. Dust
jacket.
No
Ties. [Portrush, Antrim]:
Ulsterman Publications [1970].
1st edition. Inscribed by the author to English poet,
D. J. Enright and dated: “Dec
73”.
The
Selected James Simmons. Edited by Edna
Longley. [Belfast]: Blackstadt Press [1978]. 1st edition. Inscribed by the author and dated: “June ‘78”.
Marginal
Zones. [Dublin]:
Gallery Books [1984]. 1st
edition. Author’s 1st book. Dust jacket.
Dedications. Dublin: New Writers Press, 1968. 1st edition. Limited to 200 copies. Signed by the author.
Sixteen
Poems. [Portrush, Antrim]: Ulsterman Publications [1969]. Author’s 1st publication.
Blues
for Chocolate Doherty. [Portrush,
Antrim]: Ulsterman Publications [1969]. 1st edition. Author’s 1st publication.
The
Magnolia Tree. [London: Privately printed for the author], Christmas
1953. 1st edition.
Limited to 100 numbered copies.
This is unnumbered. Inscribed by the author.
From
Inner Fires. Preface by Richard
Cameron. Monkstown, Dublin:
The Runa Press, 1962. 1st edition. Inscribed by the author and dated: ’30.6.62”. Dust jacket.
From
Inner Fires. Preface by Richard
Cameron. Monkstown, Dublin:
The Runa Press, 1962. Inscribed to the Irish playwright and actor,
Michael MacLiammoir: “from the
author/after many years’ appreciation/of his services to the/Spoken
Word/24th October 1964”.
Dust jacket.
Arrow
of Anguish, new poems. Dublin: New Island Books [1995]. 1st edition. Limited to 400 copies. Signed by the author.
The
Blue Taps, three poems. Illustration
by John Ross. [Alton Hampshire: Clarion Publishing], 1994. Prospero Poets. 1st edition. Limited
to 149 numbered copies. This
is no. 113. Signed by the author
and by the artist.
A
Dream of Maps. [Dublin]:
Raven Arts Press [1981]. 1st
edition. Signed by the author. Author’s 1st book.
Where
Fishermen Can’t Swim. [Drawings by
Rigby Graham]. Banholt [Holland: The Bonnefant Press], 2001. 1st edition. Limited to 60 numbered copies. This is no. 25. Signed by the author and by the artist. Slipcase.
A
Few Small Ones. [Valleymount,
Wicklow]: The Ballyknockan Press
[1971]. 1st edition. Limited to 350 copies. Inscribed by the author and dated: “August 1971’.
Poems. [Amherst, Massachusetts:
Privately printed for the University of Massachusetts, 1967.
3 pages. “Read by the
author, 7th November 1967, SU, U Mass.”
Mimeograph.
Stephen’s
Green Revisited, poems. [Dublin]: The Dolmen Press
[1968]. 1st edition.
Dust jacket.
Stephen’s
Green Revisited, poems. [Chester Springs, Pennsylvania]: Dufour Editions [1968]. 1st
American edition. Signed by
the author. Dust jacket.
Time
Being, a poem in three parts: Autumn
to Winter, Winter to Spring, Spring to Summer.
[Dublin]: The Dolmen
Press [1957]. 1st
edition. Limited to 200 copies. Author’s 2nd publication.
The
Blue Formica Table. Dublin: Dedalus, 1999. 1st edition. Signed
by the author. Dust jacket.
Decimal
D. Sec Drinks in a Bar in Marrakesch; a poem. Dublin:
New Writers’ Press, 1970. 1st
edition. Limited to 200 copies. Author’s 1st publication.
Miz
Moon. [Drawing by
MaryFritz Gerald]. [Dublin]: Dedalus [1988]. Dedalus Editions no. 1/1st edtion. Limited to 200 numbered copies. This is no. 14. Signed by the author and by the illustrator.
The
Nightingale Water. [Cypress Downs,
Dublin]: Dedalus [2000].
1st edition. Signed
by the author. Dust jacket.
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