RARE BOOKS. An Occasional List St. Patrick's Day 2019

ALEXANDER Literary Firsts & Poetry RARE BOOKS An Occasional List St. Patrick's Day 2019 1. Beckett, Samuel. HAPPY DAYS. London: Faber & Faber, 1961. First U.K. Edition. First edition in hardcovers, published previously by Grove Press as a paperback original. Red cloth in dust jacket; 12mo. 48 pp. Fine copy in a lightly worn at corners near fne dust jacket; all bright with little of the usual toning. [13537] $135.00 2. Beckett, Samuel. POEMS IN ENGLISH. New York: Grove Press, 1963. First U.S. Edition. Green cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. Attractive copy in unusually bright, complete (not price-clipped; $2.75) near fne dust jacket with just the lightest edgewear; the top edge of cloth lightly soiled, else fne. [12959] $125.00 3. Clarke, Austin. THE ECHO AT COOLE & Other Poems. Dublin: Dolmen, 1968. First edition. Burgundy cloth in dust jacket; small 8vo. 78 pp. A lovely crisp copy of this Irish poet's signifcant collection; jacket has just a a hint of toning, else fne (price-clipped). [8845] 4. Colum, Padraic. DRAMATIC LEGENDS AND OTHER POEMS. New York: Macmillan, 1922. First American edition. [x], 100 pp. paper-covered boards w/cloth spine, printed paper label, Inscribed by Padraic Colum on the front fyleaf to "my dear friend Harry Laffan (sp)...". On the last printed page is in Colum's hand a heavily revised version of his poem "John Butler Yeats" (who died in 1922, the year of publication). Although I can not discover anything on Mr. Laffan, clearly he is a close friend, as this poem addresses him in two heavily revised lines, with two additional closing lines. As such, a heavily reworked version of an important poem. Unfortunately the printed version (newspaper) has been pasted in on the adjoining page causing signifcant offsetting. Considerable wear to the tips and somewhat less to the head and foot; interior quite clean and bright, thus better than good; lacking the scarce dust jacket. [6235] $250.00 5. Colum, Padraic. WILD EARTH: A Book of Verse. Dublin: Maunsel & Co., 1907. First Edition. Linen-backed boards; 16mo. Inscribed on the half-title by the poet in 1937, with a previous owner's name and "Christmas 1907 (the publication month was December)" above. 39 pp. A few light pencil marks, light foxing at the extremities, separating at half-title, but about very good. Lacking rare dust jacket. The poet's frst book, which went into a new edition in 1909, and was expanded in later years. Quite scarce in the marketplace, and rare signed. [11911] $350.00 6. Deanne, John F. MANHANDLING THE DEITY. London: Carcanet, 2003. First edition. Original wraps in fne condition. Signed on the title page by the poet John F. Deanne with full signature. Irish poet and novelist's second collection of verse. Uncommon signed. [9421] 7. Delanty, Greg. SOUTHWARD. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press,, 1992. First edition. Original wrappers; 8vo. 48 pp. Signed and dated by Delanty on the title page. Irish poet and University of VT professor. Lovely condition, fresh and tight. [7520] $10.00

8. Durcan, Paul. GREETINGS TO OUR FRIENDS IN BRAZIL: One Hundred Poems. London: Harvill, 1999. First edition. Cloth in dust Jacket. 8vo. Signed by the poet. Fine in like dust jacket. [11357] 9. Duryee, Mary Ballard. SIGNS AND WONDERS. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1972. First edition. Clothbacked boards in complete dust jacket; 8vo. 55 pp. Seventh collection from this outstanding IrishAmerican poet. 1/500. Gently formalist, strong lyricism from this long-time NYC poet. Fine copy, despite a printing faw that makes the jacket look a bit off kilter. [8393] $10.00 10. Ennis, John. DOLMEN HILL. Dublin: Gallery Books, 1977. First edition. Simultaneously published issue in wraps; small 8vo. 86 pp. Poet's second book; includes "Orphans." Spine sunned, and a small sticker mark on front of olive wraps. [7998] $15.00 11. Fallon, Peter. WINTER WORK. Dublin: Gallery Press, 1983. First edition. Black cloth in dust jacket; small 8vo. 48 pp. Lovely copy of this collection from the founder of Gallery Press. Inscribed "to with affection and respect, Peter, Deerfeld [MA], May 1, 1983." Simultaneously issued edition in cloth, a fne copy in fne dust jacket. [8309] 12. Greacen, Robert. A GARLAND FOR CAPTAIN FOX. Dublin: Gallery Press, 1975. First edition. Glossy card covers in red printed dust jacket; 8vo. 30 pp. Fierce wonderful poetry from this Belfast (later, London) poet. Warmly inscribed and signed by the poet on the front free endpage, in the year of publication. No. 20 in a distinguished list. One of 700 copies (150 in hardcover). Lightly sunned at spine, else fne. [9906] 13. Grennan, Eamon. RELATIONS: New & Selected Poems. St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 1998. First American edition. Uncorrected page proofs in illustrated wrappers. Printed pub material laid in. Near fne in wrappers. [4522] 14. Harsent, David (compiled by). WINTER POETRY SUPPLEMENT. London: Poetry Book Society, December 1983. First Edition. Illustrated wrappers; small 8vo. Cover drawing by George Szirtes. Stellar list of UK poets; signed by Paul Muldoon at his contribution "The Wishbone". Very good. [14229] 15. Harvey, Francis. IN THE LIGHT ON THE STONES. Dublin: Gallery Press, 1978. First edition. 38 pp. The Irish poet & playwright's frst collection of poems. This the signed hardcover issue limited to 250 copies. Fine black cloth in a spine-faded else fne dust jacket, publisher price sticker on front fap.[13109] 16. Heaney, Seamus. CREDITING POETRY: The Nobel Lecture. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1996. First American edition. Tan paper-covered boards in dust jacket. 54 pp. Fine unread copy in fne dust jacket, with bookstore price sticker on back cover. Brandes & Durkan A64c. [14288] 17. Heaney, Seamus. DISTRICT AND CIRCLE. London: Faber & Faber, 2006. First edition. Green paper-covered boards in dust jacket; small 8vo. 76 pp. Signed on the title page by the poet. Fine unread copy in fne dust jacket. [14247] $250.00

18. Heaney, Seamus. DISTRICT AND CIRCLE. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2006. First American edition. Cream cloth in dust jacket; small 8vo. 78 pp. Signed by the poet on the title page. Fine unread copy in fne dust jacket. [14253] $200.00 19. Heaney, Seamus. ELECTRIC LIGHT. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2001. First American edition. Paper over boards in dust jacket. 8vo.; 98 pp. Brandes & Durkan A75d. Fine unread copy in fne dust jacket. [11403] $15.00 20. Heaney, Seamus. ELECTRIC LIGHT. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2001. First U.S. Edition. Paper over boards in dust jacket; 8vo. 98 pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Near fne copy, with lightly worn edges, in fne dust jacket. Brandes & Durkan A75d. [14290] $125.00 21. Heaney, Seamus. ELECTRIC LIGHT. London: Faber & Faber, 2001. First edition. Cloth in dust jacket; small 8vo.; 81 pp. Signed by the poet on the title page. Fine unread copy in fne dust jacket. Brandes & Durkan A75a. [14252] $350.00 22. Heaney, Seamus. THE HAW LANTERN. London: Faber & Faber, 1987. First edition. ISBN: 057114781x. First printing of the simultaneously published trade paperback issue. Illustrated wraps. 51 pp. Pages toned as usual else fne and unread. [11428] 23. Heaney, Seamus. THE HAW LANTERN. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1987. First U.S. Edition. Red cloth in dust jacket. 51 pp. Fine and unread in a fne and complete dust jacket. Brandes & Durkan A41c. [13728] 24. Heaney, Seamus. THE HAW LANTERN. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1987. First U.S. Edition. Number 171 of 250 signed copies. Red cloth with black and gold spine lettering, in original publisher's slipcase. 52 pp. Fine in fne slipcase (issued without a dust jacket). Brandes & Durkan A41e. [14210] $400.00 25. Heaney, Seamus. PREOCCUPATIONS: Selected Prose 1968-1978. London: Faber & Faber, 1980. First edition. Blue cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 224 pp. Inscribed by the poet on the front free end paper "For Jack Seamus Heaney March 1991". Fine copy in a near fne dust jacket with light wear to the top of the back panel, with a short closed tear. Brandes & Durkan A25. [14239] $250.00

26. Heaney, Seamus (trans.). Sophocles. THE BURIAL AT THEBES. London: Faber/ Abbey One Hundred, 2004. First Edition. Abbey Theatre Playscript Series edition; 56 pp. Players biographies, cast etc. for this 2004 production, not in the hardcover edition published simultaneously. Not to be confused with the program. Sophocles' Antigone translated by the Nobel Prize-winner. Fine (small nick) unread copy in illustrated wraps. Quite uncommon. [12233] 27. Heaney, Seamus (translator). BEOWULF: A New Translation. London: Faber & Faber, 1999. First edition thus. Dark blue boards in dust jacket; small 8vo. 106 pp. Fine unread copy in a lightly wrinkled at edges near fne dust jacket.. Brandes & Durkan A72. [14250] 28. Heaney, Seamus et al. IN MEMORIAM DARCY O'BRIEN 1939-1998. N.P.: The Recorder, 1998. First Edition. Stapled printed wrappers; 8vo. 31 pp. A Supplement to THE RECORDER: The Journal of the American Irish Historical Society; Vol. 11, No.2. Contributions from Conor Cruise O'Brien, Stanley Crouch, Thomas Flanagan and others and a poem of 28 lines here frst published by Seamus Heaney: "Non-U". Designed by Jerry Kelly and printed at The Stinehour Press. Cover with impression creasing, but still very good. Brandes B177. [13202] $150.00 29. Heaney, Seamus. "A Drink of Water" Dublin: Gallery Press, 2008. First Thus. Broadside with a drawing by Martin Gale; approx. 8 1/4 x 11 5/8. Signed by Seamus Heaney. Not to be confused with a similarly titled broadside printed in California a decade earlier that is much more common. Not located on WorldCat. Corners bumped, but still near fne. [13209] $400.00 30. Heaney, Seamus. Ballynahinch Lake. December 31, 1999. N.p. : Ballynahinch Castle, 1999. First Separate Printing. Single sheet folded to make a decorated card of four pages; 8vo. Privately printed for Ballynahinch Castle, a hotel in Connemara, County Galway. Originally published in Milan in an edition of 70 copies to celebrate the poet's 60th birthday in April. This printed to be read on December 31, 1999, at the castle at midnight. The popular poem was published in the 2001 volume ELECTRIC LIGHT. One of 500 numbered (in red) copies. Unaccountably scarce with fve copies (all in the US) listed on WorldCat. Fine [Brandes A74b.] [13207] $185.00 31. Heaney, Seamus. Ballynahinch Lake December 31, 1999. N.p.: Privately Printed, 1999. First Separate Printing. Single sheet folded to make a decorated card of four pages; 8vo. In matching envelope with castle and address printed. Privately printed for Ballynahinch Castle, a hotel in Connemara, County Galway. Originally published in Milan in an edition of 70 copies to celebrate the poet's 60th birthday in April. This printed to be read on December 31, 1999, at the castle at midnight. The popular poem was published in the 2001 volume ELECTRIC LIGHT. One of 500 numbered (in red) copies. Unaccountably scarce with fve copies (all in the US) listed on WorldCat. Fine [Brandes A74b.] [13208] $250.00 32. Heaney, Seamus. THE CURE AT TROY A Version of Sophocles' PHILOCTETES. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1991. First U.S. Edition. Brown cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 81 pp. First US printing in the scarce hardcover issue of Seamus Heaney' version of the Greek play. Fine unread copy in fne dust jacket. Brandes & Durkan A49c. [14248] 33. Heaney, Seamus. DYLAN THE DURABLE?: On Dylan Thomas. Bennington: Bennington College, 1992. First Edition. Illustrated wrappers; 8vo. 33 pp. One of 1000 hand-numbered copies; Heaney's printed signature on the bibliographic page. Intro. by Stephen Sandy. Printing a lecture given at the college by Seamus Heaney. Very near fne. Brandes & Durkan A53. [14244]

34. Heaney, Seamus. EXTENDING THE ALPHABET On Christopher Marlowe's "Hero and Leander" St. John's, Newfoundland: Memorial University, 1994. First Edition. Stapled illustrated wrappers; small 8vo. 18 pp. Chapbook printing Heaney's lecture for The Pratt Lecture delivered in 1993. Lightly creased and rubbed, easily very good. Quite uncommon. Brandes & Durkan A58. [14245] 35. Heaney, Seamus. FIELD WORK. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1979. First U.S. Edition. Brown cloth in dust jacket; small 8vo. 66 pp. A few small umber stains on the top edge, else fne in a fne dust jacket. As the poet says in his great title poem: "my umber one,/ you are stained, stained/ to perfection". Brandes & Durkan A20c. [14289] $75.00 36. Heaney, Seamus. The Fire i' the Flint: Refections on the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Oxford: The British Academy by the Oxford University Press, 1975. First Edition. Green printed wrappers; 8vo. 19pp. Signed on the title-page by the poet "To David". Prints the poet's Chatterton Lecture at the University given in 1974. Easily very good. Brandes & Durkan A13. [14213] $200.00 37. Heaney, Seamus. FROM THE REPUBLIC OF CONSCIENCE. Dublin: Amnesty International Irish Section, 1995. First Edition. Stapled gray wrappers; small 8vo. [8 pp.] Illustrations by John Behan. One of 2000 copies. Light creasing, easily very good., Very good +. Paperback. [14243] 38. Heaney, Seamus. from Vitruviana. N.p.: Hieroglyph Editions, 2003. First Separate Printing. Single leaf, card stock, folded to make four pages; thin 8o. "From 'Vitruviana' by Seamus Heaney. Watercolor by Felim Egan. Published by Hieroglyph Editions in an edition of 1,000. 1 to 100 numbered and signed by the artists"-colophon. Signed by Seamus Heaney and Felim Egan, not numbered - an author retained copy. The poem "Vitruviana" was published in ELECTRIC LIGHT in 2001. Fine and scarce. [Protected by removable mylar covers.] [12735] $600.00

39. Heaney, Seamus. THE GOVERNMENT OF THE TONGUE The 1986 T. S. Eliot Memorial Lectures and Other Critical Writings. London: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1989. First U.S. Edition. Cloth-backed gray boards in dust jacket; small 8vo. 170 pp. Inscribed by the poet "For in Pittsburgh" and dated and signed in full. Fine copy in like dust jacket. Brandes & Durkan A44b. Fine in fne dust jacket. Hardcover. [14246] $150.00 40. Heaney, Seamus. The Howard County Poetry and Literature Society presents Seamus Heaney in residence February 19 and 20, 1988, Columbia, Maryland [Poster] "Folding the Sheets" Columbia, MD: Howard County Poetry and Literature Society, 1988. First Edition. Poster with a photo of Seamus Heaney and printing a selection from HAW LANTERN "Folding the Sheets", Clearance 5. Inscribed "To Terry, Carrying the note! Sláinte! Seamus Heaney, 14/50".With a note on lined paper (5 x 8 1/4 in.) "for Terry Winch - "My grammy was Doherty,/ She was the Stuff,/ She hunted the Orangemen/ Through Gulladuff" Sláinte! Seamus Heaney. The poster is 8 1/2 x 11 in.) with two folds one likely for mailing and some creasing and about very good. The note has been folded and an earlier date of September 1980 and note obscured at the fold by water damage which partially affects the last three letters in Heaney's name. Terry Winch in this case likely the Irish poet well-known in DC poetry circles and also founder and lyrics of the musical group Celtic Thunder. The ditty about the poet's "grammy" unaffected by the damage. The poster is exceedingly rare although it is likely that BC and the sponsoring society (they made a VHS production of the interview) have copies. The poster not listed in Brandes & Durkan Ephemera section. [14373] $800.00 41. Heaney, Seamus. "I sing of a maiden " Loughcrew, Oldcastle, County Meath: Fallon/Gallery Press., 2003. First Edition. Single leaf folded to make four pages; thin 8vo. Signed by Seamus Heaney. Illustration by Catherine Heaney. Christmas 2003. Fine and scarce. [Protected by removable mylar covers.] [12736] $550.00

42. Heaney, Seamus. JOY OR NIGHT: Last Things in the Poetry of W B Yeats and Philip Larkin. Swansea: University College of Swansea, 1993. First Edition. Stapled red wrappers; small 8vo. 22 pp. Chapbook printing a lecture by Heaney for the W D Thomas Memorial Lecture delivered on 18 January February, 1993. Near fne copy with sticker on back cover. Brandes & Durkan A57. [14242] $12.50 43. Heaney, Seamus. KEEPING GOING. Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, 1993. First edition. Large gray paper wraps with gold titling. Folio. One of 150 numbered copies (of 250, 50 were case bound, 50 laid into a portfolio) signed by Heaney, Dimitri Hadzi (illustrator) & Gino Lee (the printer). Printed by The Bow & Arrow Press of Cambridge, MA, and bound in handsewn wrappers. A total of eight poems, and heavily illustrated. An attractive production. Fine. Brandes & Durkan A56b. [13556] $175.00 44. Heaney, Seamus. A LOUGH NEAGH SEQUENCE. Didsbury, Manchester: Phoenix Pamphlet Poets Press, 1969. First edition. Chapbook; 8vo. Fine copy in original stiff white stapled covers. 11 pp. Important sequence published later in the year with revisions in the poet's second collection, DOOR INTO THE DARK. Brandes & Durkan A4b. [10444] $300.00 45. Heaney, Seamus. THE MAKINGS OF A MUSIC: Refections on the Poetry of Wordsworth and Keats. Liverpool: The Univ. of Liverpool, 1978. First Edition. Stapled green wrappers; small 8vo. 18 pp. Chapbook printing a lecture by Heaney for The Kenneth Allott Lectures delivered on 9 February, 1978; the frst in the biennial series. Near fne copy with trace wear at corners. Brandes & Durkan A24. [14241] $12.50 46. Heaney, Seamus. The Manger. Loughcrew, Old castle, County Meath: Fallon/Gallery Press., 1998. First Edition. Privately published for the author by Peter Fallon, Christmas 1998. Painting by Basil Blackshaw. Single leaf, card stock, folded to make four pages; thin 8vo. Signed by Seamus Heaney. Brandes & Durkan AA59. Fine and scarce. [Protected by removable mylar covers.] [12737] $650.00 47. Heaney, Seamus. A PERSONAL SELECTION. Belfast: Ulster Museum, 1982. First Edition. Illustrated wrappers; small 4to. Heaney's selection from the museum's holdings of art work for an exhibition; the cover of Edward McGuire's famous portrait of Heaney held at the museum. A brief introduction, as well as his and the curator's notings on 37 works, some like Bacon, Turner, Brueghel, and Jack B. Yeats well-known others less so. A very good copy, the edges a bit worn and rubbed. Quite uncommon. Brandes & Durkan D14. [14251]

48. Heaney, Seamus. THE PLACE OF WRITING. Atlanta: Scholars Press for Emory University, 1989. First Edition. Cloth in dust jacket; small 8vo. 73 pp. One of 3000 copies. Essays by Heaney to inaugurate the Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature at Emory University. Beginning with Yeats Heaney writes about poets and place from MacNiece to Maldoon. Fine in like dust jacket. Brandes & Durkan A45. [14291] 49. Heaney, Seamus. Postscript. [San Francisco]: Anna Livia Books, [2002]. First Separate Printing. Anna Livia Broadsheet VI; approx. 33 x 16.5 cm. Printed in blue and back on cream card for an appearance by Heaney at "A Night of Irish Poetry", 9 October 2002, at Fox Theatre in Redwood City. The author's signature in facsimile. Printing unknown but there were two issues (this is the frst) and only seven located in institutions. A fne and scarce broadside. Brandes AA70. [13970] $200.00 50. Heaney, Seamus. PREOCCUPATIONS: Selected Prose 1968-1978. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1980. First U.S. Edition. Boards in dust jacket; small 8vo. 224 pp. Poet's frst collection of prose, some personal many critical pieces on major and contemporary poets. Light offset of endpapers, but fne in a very lightly used complete dust jacket, the spine toned (in a removable archival protective cover). Brandes & Durkan A25b. [13729] 51. Heaney, Seamus. THE REDRESS OF POETRY. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1995. First American edition. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket; small 8vo. 212 pp. The poet's third collection of criticism, lectures he delivered as Professor of Poetry at Oxford. Fine copy in a fne very bright complete dust jacket without the Nobel Prize sticker on the front. [12230] 52. Heaney, Seamus. THE REDRESS OF POETRY. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1995. First American edition. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket; small 8vo. 212 pp. The poet's third collection of criticism, lectures he delivered as Professor of Poetry at Oxford. Fine copy in a fne (slightly toned, but not noticeable unless seen with a "fner" copy) complete dust jacket without the Nobel Prize sticker on the front. Brandes & Durkan A61b. [13730] $15.00 53. Heaney, Seamus. ROBERT LOWELL Memorial Address and an Elegy. London: Faber & Faber, 1978. First Edition. Privately Printed. Sewn printed wrappers; thin 8vo. Heaney's Memorial Address to Robert Lowell, with a poem written for the occasion: "Elegy". Brandes & Durkan A16. Fine, and usually found with faws. [12710] $350.00 54. Heaney, Seamus. SEAMUS HEANEY. Copenhagen: Skoleradioen, 1977. First Edition. Illustrated wrappers; small 8vo. 64 pp. Signed by the poet. A publication in English consisting of a radio interview with Seamus Heaney (about half the text), with numerous photographs, and reviews and articles relevant to the interview. A generous selection of poems with a helpful (if you are Danish) glossary of Irish terms for each poem. Lightly worn at extremities, but easily very good, and needless to say scarce and rare signed. Brandes & Durkan B28. [14212] $200.00

55. Heaney, Seamus. SEEING THINGS. London: Faber & Faber, 1991. First edition. First Trade Paperback printing published simultaneously with the hardcover. Fine unread copy in a printed wraps. [11464] 56. Heaney, Seamus. SEEING THINGS. London: Faber & Faber, 1991. Later printing. Paperback with all type cover. Fine unread copy in a printed wraps. [12231] Trade $7.50 57. Heaney, Seamus. THE SPIRIT LEVEL Book and Reading by Seamus Heaney. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1996. First American edition in dust jacket, with a cassette of the poet reading and in the original slipcase. Book, cassette and slipcase all fne. Fine in fne dust jacket. [12229] 58. Heaney, Seamus. THE SPIRIT LEVEL. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1996. First American edition. Black boards in dust jacket; small 8vo. 82 pp. Lovely copy. Fine in like dust jacket. Brandes & Durkan A65d. [14249] $15.00 59. Heaney, Seamus. THE SPIRIT LEVEL Book and Reading by Seamus Heaney. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1996. First U.S. Edition. Signed and numbered edition in green and black, silver embossed, cloth for this special issue only, number 140 of 200 copies accompanied by a cassette of the poet reading and in the original cloth slipcase. Book, cassette and slipcase all fne, still in shrinkwrap opened for inspection only. Brandes & Durkan A65e. [14294] $300.00 60. Heaney, Seamus. STATION ISLAND. London: Faber & Faber, 1984. First edition. First Trade Paperback printing issued simultaneously with the hardcover. Poetry Book Society fyer laid in. Fine, unread copy in illustrated wraps. [11448] 61. Heaney, Seamus. "Stern" In Memory of Ted Hughes. Revere, Pa: J. Howard Woolmer, 2004. First Edition. Broadside, 9 x 16 1/4 inches. One of 26 lettered copies ("O") signed by Heaney. Total edition was only 76. Designed and printed by Robert Milevski at the Im Press, Princeton, NJ on a Vandercook SP-20. This is the frst printing of the poem. [13250] $650.00 62. Heaney, Seamus. SWEENEY ASTRAY: A Version From The Irish. Derry: Field Day Theatre Company, 1983. First printing simultaneously published: Trade Paper issue in illustrated wraps. Minor crease else fne and tight. [11440] 63. Heaney, Seamus. "The Child That's Due" from 'Bann Valley Eclogue'. Dublin: [Bank of Ireland Group Treasury], [1999]. First Separate Printing. Broadside, 8 1/4 by 11 6/8. Signed by Seamus Heaney. Cream stock, printed in grey and black. The Treasury made a donation to the "Save the Bog Campaign" for use of the poem which the author read on Radio Telefs Eireann on the Millennium's eve. Fine, signed, and quite attractive. One of 300 signed copies of 340 total. Three located on WorldCat (all in the US). Brandes & Durkan AA62. [13210] $450.00 For Heaney also see #79

64. Higgins, Rita Ann. HIGHER PURCHASE. Knockeven, Co. Clare: Salmon Poetry, 1996. First edition. IlIustrated wraps; small 8vo. Inscribed and signed by the poet in the year of publication. Fourth volume of poetry from this Galway poet. Front wrap creased; otherwise a crisp and bright and easily very good copy. [9904] 65. Kavanagh, P. J. ONE AND ONE: Poems. London: Heinemann, 1959. First Edition. Green cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 56 pp. Inscribed: "For Isabel/ With much love/ from Patrick"; additionally signed in full on title page. Poet's frst book. Moderate foxing on endpapers and edges; in a heavily foxed worn at edges dust jacket.. Price change (not clipped) on fap in ink. Good + in good + dust jacket. [6803] $100.00 66. Kinsella, Thomas. BUTCHER'S DOZEN. Dublin: The Dolmen Press, 1972. First edition thus. 8 pp. First trade issue. Issued as Peppercanister I. Near fne in stapled wrappers. [4380] Kinsella began the Peppercanister Press with this chapbook after the "Bloody Sunday" killings of 1972. Now in his 90's he has published through his own press although Oxford has published his work including his Collected Poems. 67. Kinsella, Thomas. THE MESSENGER. Dublin: Peppercanister, 1978. First edition. Peppercanister 8: One of 75 copies in black cloth, spine gilt stamped; 8vo. Inscribed and signed in full by the poet to Rev. William Gormley an early subscriber to the press. Beautifully printed by the Dolmen Press. Fine in like dust jacket (in removable acetate covers). [11702] $250.00 68. Kinsella, Thomas. NIGHTWALKER: And Other Poems. New York: Knopf, 1968. First U.S. Edition. Tan cloth, gilt and black stamped; 8vo. 102 pp. Irish poet who taught for many years in the US. Name in ink on fep, else fne in an easily very good dust jacket with just a few nicks at edges. [7007] $15.00 69. Kinsella, Thomas. POEMS & TRANSLATIONS. New York: Atheneum,, 1961. First edition. Some rubbing to wraps, but this is really in very nice condition. Early work by the noted poet. Very Good. [7507] $7.50 70. Kinsella, Thomas. SONG OF THE NIGHT. Dublin: Peppercanister, 1978. First edition. Peppercanister 7: Number 12 of 50 copies (40 for sale) bound in Basil (full black morrocco, t.e.g.; spine gilt stamped, marbled end papers), signed by the poet with an additional poem in manuscript bound in. 8vo. Beautifully printed by the Dolmen Press. Spine rubbed, trace foxing, else fne in fne gilt dec. original cloth slipcase. [11701] $400.00 71. Kinsella, Thomas. A TECHNICAL SUPPLEMENT. Dublin: Peppercanister, 1976. First edition. Peppercanister 6: One of 50 copies in green cloth, spine gilt stamped; 8vo. Inscribed and signed in full by the poet to Rev. William Gormley an early subscriber to the press. Beautifully printed by the Dolmen Press. Fine in like vellum unprinted dust jacket (in removable protective acetate covers). [11703] $300.00 72. Laird, Nick. GO GIANTS. New York: Norton, 2013. First U.S. Edition. Trade paperback issue signed by the poet on the title page. Poet's third volume of poems. Fine unread copy. [14301]

73. Laird, Nick. ON PURPOSE. New York: Norton, 2008. First U.S. Edition. Trade paperback issue signed by the poet on the title page. Poet's second volume of poems. Fine unread copy. [14300] 74. Laird, Nick. TO A FAULT. New York: Norton, 2006. First U.S. Edition. Trade paperback issue signed by the poet on the title page. Poet's frst volume of poems. Fine unread copy. [14299] 75. Liddy, James. BLUE MOUNTIAN. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1968. First edition. Blue coth in dust jacket; small 8vo. Inscribed and signed in full in marker: " For Mark and Francis with affection" in Dublin in 1968. Offsetting from jacket on endpapers, else fne in an evenly faded lightly worn at folds still near fne dust jacket. 39 pp. [11306] $125.00 76. Liddy, James. IN A BLUE SMOKE. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1964. First edition. First Dublin (w/out Dufour printed on Title page) edition. Original cloth-backed boards in dust jacket; small 8vo. First printing of the poet's frst book of poems, preceded by an address on Joyce. Inscribed: "This copy is for Mr. Silliman / James Liddy". About fne copy in a lightly sunned at extremities else fne dust jacket (ghost of price sticker on front fap). Rare signed. [11318] $200.00 77. [Liddy, James] Arkins, Brian. JAMES LIDDY: A Critical Study. Galway: Arlen House, 2001. First edition. ISBN: 1983631084. Cloth in dust jacket. Inscribed under the author Arkins name: "who wishes he were James Liddy & James Liddy who wishes he were Brian Arkins/ James Liddy". "First comprehensive study...": from back cover. Neat inscription in Liddy's hand. Fine in like dust jacket. [11327] 78. MacFalls, Seán. BETWEEN THE LEAVES, THERE ARE LITTLE STARS. Mill Valley: Blue Falcon Books/Peregrine Press, 1998. First edition. Stapled grey printed wrappers; 8vo. 40 pp. One of 50 copies signed and numbered by the author. Woodcut decorations by Eric Gill. Back cover blurbs by Sharon Olds, Galway Kinnell and Rosalie Moore. Precedes his frst collection (which prints some of these same poems) from the same press (Peregrine) by three years. Fine copy of cheaply produced book. Rare. [5669] 79. MacGill-Eain, Somhairle; translated by Seamus Heaney. Hallaig. N.p.: Urras Somhairle/ The Sorley MacLean Trust, 2002. First Edition. Stapled green wrappers; small 8vo. [8 pp.] This is number 27 of 50 copies signed and numbered by Seamus Heaney; the total edition was 200. Original Gaelic with Heaney's translation facing. Creased, still very good. Rare. Brandes & Durkan A80. [14215] $500.00 80. Mahon, Derek. THE CHIMERAS: A Version of Les Chimeres by Gerard de Narval. Dublin: Gallery Books, 1982. First edition. Black cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 20 pp. Lovely copy of the hardcover issue (one of only 300 copies in cloth issue ) of this reworking of these poems from the 19th C French. Mahon is one of the most popular Irish poets working today. Very near fne in like dust jacket. [11311] $45.00 81. McCormick, Malachi. DUANAIRE: An Anthology of Classic Love, Nature, Monastic Irish Poetry. New York: The Stone Street Press, 1986. First edition. "Three Handmade Books" each in sewn wraps in a handmade paper over board slipcase. Published separately in 1983,1984&1986. Dual language: English & Gaelic. Consists of The Love Of Irish Woman. The Pleasures Of Irish Nature Poetry and A Book Of Irish Monastic Prayer Poems. McCormick has handmade (binding, paper labels, etc.) and

designed each book, as well as doing the illustrations, calligraphy & translation. Each volume is signed; Monastic Prayer Poems is numbered (in an edition of 450. Each volume was produced and sold separately, this boxed edition with all three signed is quite scarce. A lovely set; they are all About Fine. [2295] 82. Montague, John. CHRISTMAS BROADSIDE: Last Chance Second Series, Number Ten. Buffalo: The University Libraries SUNY Buffalo, 1988. First Thus. Single sheet folded; color illustration a quilt by Evelyn Montague opposite Montague's poem "Last Chance". One of 2000 total. Fine. [11871] 83. Muldoon, Paul (contr.); Damian Grant (ed.). POETRY 1972. London: The Critical Quarterly Society, 1972. First Edition. Stapled wrappers; 8vo. 24 pp. Signed by Paul Muldoon at his contribution, two poems "Snail" and "The Charcoal Burner". Prior to his frst book, Muldoon was in good company in this issue: Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Alasdair Maclean, Stevie Smith, Derek Mahon, Douglas Dunn, R. S. Thomas, Michael Schmidt and others. Light wear to extremities, at least very good. [14271] 84. Muldoon, Paul (contr.); Douglas Dunn (comp.). POETRY SUPPLEMENT. London: Poetry Book Society, Christmas 1979. First Edition. Orange wrappers; small 8vo. Signed by Muldoon at his contribution, two poems: "The One Desire" and "Anseo". Annual with other contributors including Ted Hughes, Michael Longley, Anne Stevenson, Christopher Logue and Norman MacGaig. Very good copy with minor wear to corners. [14274] 85. Muldoon, Paul (contr.); Frank Ormsby (ed.). THE HONEST ULSTERMAN No. 55. Belfast: The Honest Ulsterman, March/April 1977. First Edition. Stapled decorated wrappers; 8vo. 104 pp. Signed by Paul Muldoon on his photograph taken by Don McPhee, Muldoon contributes three poems (two were later published in MULES). Also, contributing: Motion, Deane, Longley, Enright and Raine among many others. One page poorly printed, the leaf folded, else wear at corners staples rust, and about very good. [14272] 86. Muldoon, Paul (contr.); Frank Ormsby and Michael Foley (eds.). THE HONEST ULSTERMAN No. 20. Belfast: The Honest Ulsterman, December 1969. First Edition. Stapled wrappers; 8vo. 32 pp. Signed by Paul Muldoon at his contributions two poems "Centre Piece" and "Taking the Rust"; a very early appearance by Muldoon, two year s before his frst book. Extremities toned, light creasing and close to very good. [14375] $100.00 87. Muldoon, Paul (contr.); Frank Ormsby and Michael Foley (eds.). THE HONEST ULSTERMAN No. 30. Belfast: The Honest Ulsterman, Sept./Oct. 1971. First Edition. Stapled wrappers; 8vo. 36 pp. Signed by Paul Muldoon at his contribution the poem Faces"; an early appearance by Muldoon. About very good. [14374] $100.00

88. Muldoon, Paul (contr.); Harry Chambers (ed.). PHOENIX 10: A Poetry Magazine. Stockport, Cheshire: Phoenix, July 1973. First Edition. Stapled wrappers; 8vo. 96 pp. Signed by Muldoon at his contribution the poem "Elizabeth", published in the same year as his frst book. Also, contributing: Heaney, Louis Simpson, Anne Stevenson, Thwaite, Dunn and many others. Typical wear to spine and corners, very good. [14273] 89. Muldoon, Paul (contr.); Mary Stewart (ed.). KESTREL No. 15: A Journal of Literature and Art. Fairmont, WV: Fairmont State College, Spring 2000. First Edition. Illustrated wrappers; 8vo. Signed by Paul Muldoon at his contribution a poem w/ intro. "Famous First Words" on pp. 63-65. Eamon Grennan, Jean Valentine are among the other contributors. Fine. [14276] 90. Muldoon, Paul (contributor); Robert Johnstone et al. (eds.). CARET No. 3: A Poetry Magazine. Belfast: Caret, Summer 1973. First Edition. Stapled illustrated wrappers; small 8vo. 34 pp. Signed by Muldoon at his contribution the poem "Stampede"; published the same year as his frst book. Also, contributing, Michael Longley and Jonathan Galassi who was then at Cambridge, now president of US publisher Farr, Straus *& Giroux, arguably the preeminent poetry publisher in the US, and himself an esteemed poet and translator. A very good copy with residue from an old price-sticker on the front cover. [14269] 91. Muldoon, Paul. APERTURE No. 134: Ireland: A Troubling Mirror. New York: Aperture, Winter 1994. First Edition. Glossy photographic wrappers; large 4to. 80 pp. The entire issue in color and black and white devoted to Ireland. Paul Muldoon has signed at his contribution a poem on page 5, the frst line beginning: "When Oinen came back/ to Ireland...". Back cover crease, easily very good. [14267]

92. Muldoon, Paul. BANDANNA: An Opera in Two Acts and a Prologue. London: Faber & Faber, 1999. First Edition. Illustrated wrappers; small 8vo. 52 pp. Signed by the poet. The Libretto of an opera set on the Mexican Border. Fine copy, published in paper only. [14216] 93. Muldoon, Paul. CONFOUNDED LANGUAGE: New Poems by Nine Irish Writers. Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 1991. First Edition. Glossy illustrated wrappers; small 8vo. 46 pp. Paul Muldoon has signed at is contribution "The Briefcase"; poems by Heaney, Longley, Montague, Ni Chiuilleanain, Ormsby, McGuckian, Foley and Dawe round out the selection of new work. Images throughout by Noel Connor. US distributor sticker on back cover, else about fne. [14268] 94. Muldoon, Paul. HAY. London: Faber & Faber, 1998. First Edition. Light green paper-covered boards in dust jacket; small 8vo. 140 pp. Top tips very lightly bumped, else fne tight, unread copy. [13122] 95. Muldoon, Paul. HAY. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1998. First American edition. An uncorrected proof with printed note to reviewers laid in. Signed by the poet on the title page. Born in 1951 in Northern Ireland, Muldoon teaches at Princeton, as recently as 1999 he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford; he was the winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize for poetry in 1994, and was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry for 2003. Fine.[14237] 96. Muldoon, Paul. MAGGOT: Poems. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2010. First Edition. Black paper-covered boards in dust jacket; 8vo. 134 pp. Signed by the poet on the dedication page. Fine unread copy in like dust jacket. [14205] 97. Muldoon, Paul. MEETING THE BRITISH. Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest, 1987. First U.S. Edition. Illustrated wrappers; 8vo. 64 pp. The poet's fourth collection. Inscribed in marker on the title page, signed in full and dated NYC 1987. A very near fne copy, bright, tight and seemingly unread. [14254] $75.00 98. Muldoon, Paul. MOY SAND AND GRAVEL. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2002. First edition. An uncorrected proof copy in tan wrappers of the Pulitzer Prize-winning volume for 2003. Signed by the poet on the title page. Lightly soiled spot on front edge else fne and tight (in removable mylar covers). A scarce proof and rare signed. [14208] $75.00 99. Muldoon, Paul. MULES. Winston-Salem: Wake Forest, 1977. First American edition. The Irish poet's second book, published as a paperback original in both the US and UK. Signed by the poet on the title page. This copy in near fne condition, with residue from a price sticker on the back cover, small bruise on spine, but very tight and clean. A great copy of an uncommon book. Muldoon has long lived and taught in the US, and won a Pulitzer Prize in 2003. [14214] $100.00

100. Muldoon, Paul. MULES AND EARLY POEMS. Winston-Salem: Wake Forest University Press, 1985. First U.S. Edition. Plain printed wrapper; small 8vo. 85 pp. Signed by the poet on the title page. Comprises the poet's second book MULES and poems selected from his frst book NEW WEATHER, not previously published in the US. One of poem has been revised. Prev. owner's name address on inside front cover, else a near fne copy published in trade paper only. Scarce book and rare signed. [14295] 101. Muldoon, Paul. NAMES AND ADDRESSES. Belfast: Ulsterman Publications, 1978. First Edition. Glossy stapled wrappers; small 8vo. 15 pp. Twelve poems by Muldoon and signed by him on the title page. Corners a bit bruised, but easily very good. [14270] $75.00 102. Muldoon, Paul. THE NOCTUARY OF NARCISSUS BATT. London: Faber & Faber, 1997. First Edition. Black cloth in dust jacket; square 12mo. Illustrated throughout by Marketa Prachaticka. Signed by Muldoon on the title page. Children's poetry - an alphabet book for all ages in rhyming quatrains, not published in the US. A fne copy in like dust jacket. Scarce signed. [14293] 103. Muldoon, Paul. THE POETRY BOOK SOCIETY ANTHOLOGY 1989-1990. London: Hutchinson, 1990. First Edition. Illustrated wrappers; 8vo. 99 pp. Signed by Paul Muldoon at his contribution, "The Nest". A stellar list of other contributors from Simon Armitage to Hugo Williams with Heaney, Hill, Hughes, and Spender, too. Light wear to extremities, but near fne. [14275] 104. Muldoon, Paul. SELECTED POEMS 1968-1986. New York: The Ecco Press, 1987. First edition. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket; 8vo. 147 pp. Signed by the poet on the title page. The frst U.S. selected poems, by this Irish poet who won the Pulitzer Prize in 2003. Fine in a fne dust jacket. [14238] $75.00 105. Muldoon, Paul. THE SHACK: Irish Poets in the Foothills and Mountains of the Blue Ridge. Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest Univ. Press, N.d.. First Edition. Illustrated wrappers; 4to. 71 pp. Three color plates. Signed by the poet Paul Muldoon at his contribution. Eleven Irish poets contribute a poem about their time in the NC/VA Blue Ridge Mountains; a stellar list with Muldoon, Mehan, Longley, O'Callahan, Carson and others, from the primary publisher of Irish poetry in this country. An attractive publication with two reproductions of art work from Kenneth Frazelle. Near fne. [14266] 106. Muldoon, Paul. SIX HONEST SERVING MEN. Loughcrew, Old Castle: Gallery, 1995. First Edition. Black cloth on dust jacket; small 8vo. 50 pp. The hardcover issue of this verse play signed by the poet on the title page. A US distributor sticker on the title page and the front fap, else fne. Primary issue in paper, uncommon signed in cloth. [14287] $100.00 107. Muldoon, Paul. VERA OF LAS VEGAS. Loughcrew, Old Castle: Gallery, 2001. First Edition. Black cloth in dust jacket; small 8vo. 53 pp. Hardcover issue specially signed by the poet on the title page. Fine and unused in a fne dust jacket. [14211] $100.00

108. Muldoon, Paul. VERA OF LAS VEGAS. Loughcrew, Old Castle: Gallery Books, 2001. First Edition. Simultaneously published trade paperback issue; small 8vo. 53 pp. Specially signed by the poet on the title page. Fine copy, with US distributor sticker on back cover. [14218] 109. Muldoon, Paul. WHEN THE PIE WAS OPENED. Lewes: Sylph Editions/ The American University of Paris, 2008. First Edition. Green card covers in an illustrated dust jacket, and wrap around band; 8vo. 42 pp. Illustrated end papers. Signed by the poet. Poet's translations and original work. The eight book in The Cahiers Series. Fine in fne dust jacket. [14240] 110. Muldoon, Paul. THE WISHBONE. Dublin: Gallery Books, 1984. First Edition. Glossy card covers in printed dust jacket; small 8vo. 21 pp. Specially signed by the poet on the title page. Edition was 750 copies. Faintly spine-faded, else fne. [14217] $150.00 111. Muldoon, Paul. THE WORD ON THE STREET. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2013. First Edition. Black boards in dust jacket; square 12mo. 76 pp. Signed by the poet on the title page. Lyrics some of which are rock songs used when performing with his band Wayside Shrines. Fine in a fne dust jacket. [14235] 112. Murphy, Richard. HIGH ISLAND: New and Selected Poems. New York: Harper & Row, 1974. First American edition. Two-tone cloth in dust jacket; small 8vo. 118 pp. Poet's fourth collection, second in the US. Irish, he spent much of his life elsewhere including teaching in the US. This the uncommon hardcover issue: fne in close to fne dust jacket. [5929] 113. O Lochlainn, Colm. IRISH STREET BALLADS: Collected and Annotated by Colm O Lochlainn and Adorned with Woodcuts from the Original Broadsheets. New York: Corinth, 1960. First Edition. Green illustrated wrappers; 8vo. 235 pp., w/ index of frst lines. Light wear at extremities, but easily very good. [1642] $10.00 114. Synge, J. M.; A. E. et al. THE SHANACHIE No. 2 An Irish Miscellany Illustrated. Dublin: Maunsel, [1906]. First Edition. Red wrappers with yapped edges, printed in gold and black; square 8vo. 130 pp., 6 pp. of ads. The second number of this quarterly that lasted for six issues and had as contributors through its run most of the key fgures in art and literature of the Irish Renaissance. This issue with poems and an essay by A. E., an essay by Synge and a sketch each by Jack and J. B. Yeats, also Birmingham, Barlow, Langbridge, Dickinson,Orkney, Castle, Roberts, Gay and one in Gaelic. An advertisement for the Abbey Theatre lists as forthcoming the frst production of Synge's The Playboy of the Western World, among other plays by Yeats, Synge, Lady Gregory, et al. Minor soiling, foxing and wear, the spine with faded with small loss; about very good (in removable protective mylar covers). Very good -. Paperback. [12255] SOLD 115. Synge, J. M.; A. E. et al. THE SHANACHIE Volume II, No. Four An Irish Illustrated Quarterly. Dublin: Maunsel, [1907]. First Edition. Gray wrappers with yapped edges, printed in red and black; square 8vo. 126 pp., 3 pp. of ads. The fourth number of this Irish Renaissance quarterly that lasted for six issues and had as contributors through its run most of the key fgures in art and literature from Ireland. This issue with essays by Synge and J. B. Yeats. Also, work by Birmingham, J. H. Orwell, Horrwitz, Gay, Fitzmaurice, Hannay, Kingston and A. V. C., with six illus. by Elinor Darwin. Minor soiling, foxing and wear. Text block beginning to separate, but mostly unopened and easily repaired; very good (in removable protective mylar covers). [12256] $150.00

116. Yeats, John Butler. FURTHER LETTERS OF JOHN BUTLER YEATS. Selected by Lennox Robinson. Dundrum: The Cuala Press, 1920. First edition. 8vo. Linen-backed blue paper-covered boards, with spine label. Excerpts from letters to his Brother W. B. Y. Front hinge tender, label lightly worn; a bit toned and dusty, but quite nice and certainly very good. With small binder sticker and bookseller stamp on end papers. (In a removable protective cover.) [10593] $125.00 117. Yeats, W. B. THE COLLECTED WORKS Volume I. New York: Macmillan, 1989. First edition. 751 pp., w/ index of frst lines and notes. Uncorrected proof in red printed wrappers with three pages of pub material laid in. Price corrected in ink and label over original printed title. Fine in wrappers. [5547] $30.00 118. Yeats, W. B. LAST POEMS AND PLAYS. London: Macmillan, 1940. First Edition. Green cloth, blind stamped design w/ gilt spine lettering; large 8vo. Includes many of the poet's fnest poems. Gilt rubbed, shaken, interior a bit soiled, about very good; lacking the dust jacket. One of 2000 copies. Combines with different ordering and in some cases titling of two Cuala Press limited editions. Wade 203. [11913] $95.00