Irish Poetry After 1950

Poems In English. New York: Grove Press [1963]. 1^st American edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author to American novelist and short-story writer, Kay Boyle and dated: “Paris April, 1963." The book ends with 4 poems in French with facing English translations by the author. The last line in English of the final poem has been lined out and a corrected translation written in ink and initialed by Beckett. Loosely inserted is a note from Boyle to “Dear reader,” dated, “August, 16, 1991,” which explains this textual change. She sent the book back to Beckett asking him “to be more accurate in his translating of his own work from French into English…” With his usual good nature, he made the change and mailed it back to her. Dust jacket.

Apollinaire, Guillaume. Zone. English translation by Samuel Beckett. Dublin: The Dolman Press; London: Calder & Boyars [1972]. 1^st book edition. Bi-lingual text. Inscribed by the author. Dust jacket.

Rimbaud, Arthur. Drunken Boat. Translation of Arthur Rimbaud's poem Le bateau ivre [by] Samuel Beckett. Edited with an introduction by James Knowlson and Felix Leakey. Reading [Berkshire]: WhiteKnights Press, 1976. 1st edition. Limited to 300 numbered copies. This is no.

165. Bilingual text. Inscribed by Beckett.

BOLAND, EAVAN

Anna Liffey. [Dublin]: Poetry Ireland Pamphlets, 1997. 1^st edition. Limited to 250 numbered copies. This is no. 27. Signed by the author.

A Christmas Chalice. [Buffalo, New York]: State University of New York at Buffalo, The University Libraries, 1994. Christmas Broadside, 3^rd series, no. 6. Edition limited to 1750 copies. [Poem card]

Collected Poems. [Manchester]: Carcanet [1995]. 1^st edition. Signed by the author.

The Emigrant Irish. London: The British Council [and] The British Library [1994?] Poems on the Underground. [Poster]

In a Time of Violence. New York [and] London: W. W. Norton [1994]. 1^st American edition. Inscribed by the author. Dust jacket.

Introducing Eavan Boland. Princeton, New Jersey: The Ontario Review Press [1981]. 1^st edition. Ontario Review Press Poetry Series. Dust jacket.

The Journey. Illustration by Timothy Engelland. [Deerfield, Massachusetts]: Deerfield Press; [Dublin]: Gallery Press [1983]. 1^st 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]. 1^st edition. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.

BOLGER, DERMOT

Internal Exiles; poems. [Mountrath, Portlaoise]: Dolmen Press [1986]. 1^st edition. Signed by the author.

A New Primer for Irish Schools [by] Dermot Bolger and Michael O’Loughlin. [Dublin]: Raven Arts Press [1985]. 1^st edition. Limited to 80 numbered copies. This is no. 3. Signed by both authors. Dust jacket.

BRETT, HEATHER

Abigail Brown. [Galway: Salmon Publishing, 1991]. 1^st edition. Author’s 1^st book.

CAMPBELL, JOHN

The Rose and the Blade; new and selected poems 1957 – 1987. Belfast: Lagan Press, 1997. 1^st edition. Inscribed by the author.

CANNON, MOYA

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.

CARSON, CIARAN

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]. 1^st edition. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.

The Irish for No. [Dublin]: Gallery Press; [Winston-Salem, North Carolina]: Wake Forest University Press [1987]. 1^st edition. Signed by the author and dated: “Apr ‘93”. Dust jacket.

Letters from the Alphabet. [Oldcastle, Meath]: Gallery Books [1995]. 1^st edition. Limited to 500 copies. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.

The Lost Explorer. [Belfast]: Ultsterman Publications [1978]. 1^st edition. Signed by the author.

The New Estate and other poems . [Oldcastle, Meath]: Gallery Books [1988]. Signed by the author and dated: “Apr. ‘93”. Dust Jacket.

The Alexandrine Plan; versions of sonnets by Baudelaire, Mallerme and Rimbaud. [Old Castle, Meath]: Gallery Books [1998]. 1^st edition. Signed by Carson. Dust jacket.

CLARKE, AUSTIN

Forget-Me-Not. [Dublin]: Dolmen Press [1962]. 1^st 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]

CLIFFORD, SIGERSON

Ballads of a Bogman. London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1955. 1^st edition. Dust jacket.

CLIFTON, HARRY

Comparative Lives. [Dublin]: Gallery Books [1982]. 1^st edition. Signed by the author.

The Desert Route, selected poems 1973-1988. [Oldcastle, Meath]: Gallery Books [1992]. 1^st edition. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.

Night Train through the Brenner. [Oldcastle, Meath]: Gallery Books [1994]. 1^st editin. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.

The Walls of Carthage. [Dublin]: Gallery Books [1977]. 1^st edition. Signed by the author. Author’s 1^st book. Dust jacket.

COFFEY, BRIAN

The Big Laugh. Dublin: Sugar Loaf [1976]. 1^st 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]. 1^st edition. Inscribed by the author to fellow Irish poet Robert Greacen and dated: “13/XI/91.”

Selected Poems. [Dublin]: New Writers’ Press [1971]. 1^st edition. Limited to 250 copies. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.

COLUM, PADRAIC

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.

CRONIN, ANTHONY

The End of the Modern World. [Dublin]: Raven Arts Press [1989]. 1^st edition. Signed by the author.

The Minotaur, and other poems. [Dublin]: New Island Books [1999]. 1^st edition. Signed by the author.

Relationships. Dublin: [New Island Books, 1994]. 1^st edition. Limited to 400 copies. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.

DAWE, GERALD

Heart of Hearts. [Oldcastle, Meath]: Gallery Books [1995]. 1^st edition. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.

Heritages. [Breakish, Isle of Skye]: Aquila [and] The Wayzgoose Press [1976]. 1^st edition. Signed by the author.

Sheltering Places & Company; poems. Images by Noel Connor. [Biddulph Moor, Statfordshire]: The Rudyard Press [1993]. 1^st edition. Signed by the author.

DEANE, JOHN F

Far Country. [Dublin]: Dedalus [1992]. Icarus editions 1. 1^st edition. Limited to 350 copies.

Upon Foreign Soil. Dublin: Dedalus, 1999. Icarus editions 3. 1^st edition. Limited to 500 copies. Signed by the author.

Walking on Water. Dublin: Dedalus [1994]. “Icarus” series 3. 1^st edition. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.

DEANE, SEAMUS

Gradual Wars. Shannon [Limmerick]: Irish University [1972]. 1^st 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]. 1^st edition. Author’s 1^st book.

DEELEY, PATRICK

Decoding Samara. [Dublin]: Dedalus [2000]. 1^st edition. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.

DELANTY, GREG

The Fifth Province. [Wood engravings by Bonnie Christensen]. [Minneapolis: Traffic Street Press, 2000]. 1^st 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.

DEVLIN, DENIS

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. 1^st edition. Limited to 350 numbered copies. This is no. 265.

DORGAN, THEO

Sappho’s Daughter. [Dublin]: Wave Train Press [1998]. 1^st edition. Limited to 500 numbered copies. This is no. 229. Signed by the author.

DUNNE, SEÁN

Against the Storm; poems. [Mountrath, Portlaoise]: The Dolmen Press [1985]. 1^st edition. Author’s 1^st book.

DURCAN, PAUL

The Berlin Wall Cafe. Belfast and Dover, New Hampshire: The Blackstaff Press [1985]. 1^st edition. Inscribed by the author and dated: “26-11-85”.

Christmas Day with a Goose in the Frost. London: The Harvill Press [1996]. 1^st edition. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.

Going Home to Russia. Belfast and Wolfeboro, New Hampshire: The Blackstaff Press [1987]. 1^st edition. Signed by the author.

In the Land of Punt. [Illustrations (7 full color printed plates) by] Gene Lambert. [Dublin]: Clashaganna Mills Press [1988]. 1^st edition. Signed by the author and by the artist. Dust jacket.

Teresa’s Bar. [Dublin]: Gallery Books [1976]. 1^st edition. Limited to 250 copies. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.

EGAN, DESMOND

Collected Poems. [Orono, Maine]: The National Poetry Foundation, University of Maine at Orono, 1983. 1^st 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. 1^st edition. Inscribed by the author. Dust jacket.

Elegies. [Newbridge, Kildare]: Goldsmith, 1996. 1^st edition. Signed by the author.

Famine. Drawings by James McKenna. [Newbridge, Kildare]: Goldsmith, 1997. 1^st edition. Signed by the author.

The Hill of Allen, a sequence of poems. Drawings by James McKenna and a note by Daithi Ohogain. [Newbridge, Kildare]: The Goldsmith Press, 2001. 1^st edition. Limited to 423 numbered copies. This is 404. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.

In the Holocaust of Autumn, a sequence of eight parts with an epilogue. Foreword by Ben Briscoe. [Newbridge, Kildare]: Goldsmith, 1994. 1^st edition. Signed by the author.

Midland, poems. Drawings by Brian Bourke. [Dublin: The Goldsmith Press, 1973]. 1^st edition. Signed by the author. Author’s 1^st book.

Siege! Monasterevin 22 October/7 November. [The Curragh, Kildare]: Goldsmith, 1976. 1^st edition. Signed by the author.

Woodcutter. [The Curragh, Kildare]: Goldsmith, 1978. 1^st edition. Signed by the author.

ENNIS, JOHN

Arboretum. [Dublin]: Dedalus [1990]. 1^st edition. Limited to 300 numbered copies. This is no. 157.

Dolmen Hill. Dublin: Gallery Books [1977]. 1^st edition. Limited to 250 copies. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.

Night on Hibernia. [Dublin]: Gallery Books [1976]. 1^st edition. “Limited signed edition.” Signed by the author. Author’s 1^st book. Dust jacket.

Selected Poems. Dublin: Dedalus, 1996. 1^st edition. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.

FALLON, PETER

Among the Walls. [Dublin]: Tara Telephone Publications [1971]. 1^st edition. Limited to 500 copies. Author’s 1^st 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].” 1^st 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]. 1^st edition. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.

A Flowering; a poem. [East Hampton, Massachusetts]: Warwick Press, 2000. 1^st 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]. 1^st edition. Limited to 500 copies.

A Gentler Birth. Illustrations by Timothy Engelland. [Deerfield, Massachusetts]: The Deerfield Press [1977]. 2^nd edition. Inscribed by the illustrator and signed by the author.

The News and Weather. [Dublin]: Gallery Books [1987]. 1^st edition. Signed by the author and dated: “Christmas 1987.” Dust jacket.

The Speaking Stones. Drawings by Timothy Engelland. [Dublin]: Gallery Books, [1978]. 1^st edition/Limited to 300 copies. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.

Winter Work. [Dublin]: Gallery Books [1983]. 1^st edition. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.

FANNING, GERALD

Working for the Government. [Dublin]: Dedalus, 1999. 1^st edition. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.

FIACC, PADRAIC

By The Black Stream; selected poems 1947 – 1967. [Dublin]: The Dolmen Press [1969]. Poetry Ireland Editions. 1^st 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. 1^st 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.

FOLEY, MICHAEL

Heil Hitler. [Portrush, Antrim: Ulsterman Publications [1969]. 1^st edition. Author’s 1^st publication.

GALVIN, PATRICK

By Nature Different, a poem. [Brighton, Sussex: Tone Press Publications, 1971]. 1^st edition. Limited to 50 numbered copies. This is no. 23. Signed by the author.

Folk Tales for the General. Dublin: Raven Arts Press [1989]. 1^st edition. Signed by the author and dated: “Oct. 1989.”

Heart of Grace. [London]: Linden Press [1957]. 1^st edition. Author’s 1^st volume of poetry. Dust jacket.

Heart of Grace. [London]: Linden Press [1957]; 1^st 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]. 1^st edition. Limited to 500 copies.

The Madwoman of Cork, poems. [Cork: The Three Spires Press, 1991]. 1^st edition. Limited to 350 numbered copies. This is unnumbered.

GOGARTY, OLIVER ST. JOHN

The Collected Poems… London: Constable [1951]. 1^st edition. Limited to 500 copies. Dust jacket.

The Collected Poems… [New York]: Devin-Adair [1954]. 1^st American edition. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.

GREACEN, ROBERT

A Bright Mask; new and selected poems. [Dublin]: The Dedalus Press [1985]. 1^st edition. Inscribed by the author and dated: “26^th Nobember, 1987”.

Carnival at the River. [Dublin]: Dedalus [1990]. 1^st edition. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.

Collected Poems 1944 – 1994. Belfast: Lagan Press, 1995. 1^st edition. Signed by the author.

Dreams, Nightmares. [ n.p.: Author?, 1980?]. Signed by the author. [Poem card].

Ecstasy. [Belfast: Lapwing Publications, 1999]. 1^st 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]. 1^st 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. 1^st 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]. 1^st edition. Inscribed by the author and dated: “15 August ‘94”.

Protestant without a Horse. Belfast: Lagan Press, 1997. 1^st edition. Signed by the author. Dust jacket.