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Oxford : Carcanet Press, (1970). First edition : limited to 600 copies. Four poems from the Antrim-born poet.
Crown 8vo (18cm). 36pp. Original pale blue wrappers, lettered and decorated in a John Franklin design in black; faintly bruised, spine a touch sunned, but otherwise very good.

£15

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Newcastle upon Tyne : Jackson’s Arm, (1985). First edition. Signed by Brendan Cleary on the title-page. The Antrim-born poet’s first collection – fourteen poems, including “Buying an Orange”, “Abattoir”, “Truant”, etc.
Post 8vo (22cm). [16]pp. Original stapled wrappers – a design in pale lilac, black and white; very good.

£20

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Belfast : Honest Ulsterman Publications, (1993). First edition. Ten poems from the Dublin-born poet, including “Meltwater”, “In Earthquake Country”, “Firefly”, etc.
Foolscap 4to (20cm). [iv],(20)pp. Original cerise stapled wrappers, printed in black; slightly sunned, but a very good copy.

£20

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Dublin : Dedalus Press, (1994). First edition : the hardback issue. A collection thirty-one poems, including “Naked Girl with Egg”, “Island Man in Paris”, “Dancing from Antrim”, “From a Famine Journal”, etc.
Foolscap 4to (22cm). (74),[vi]pp. Original blue rexine, lettered in gilt; lightly bruised; top edge slightly spotted; text just faintly tanned, but otherwise very good in the original Michael Boran dust-jacket – also very good.

£20

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Drogheda : Aquila Ireland, 1984. First edition : the wrappers issue. Thirty-seven poems, including “Cathars”, “Sub Specie Aeternitatis”, “Elegy at Mornington”, etc.
Foolscap 4to (21cm). 58,[ii]pp. Original cream wrappers, printed in red and black; lightly used and slightly marked, but a good and sound copy.

£20

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Dublin : Dedalus Press, 1992. First edition : the hardback issue. The Dublin poet’s first collection – thirty-four poems, including “The Road to the Skelligs”, “Geographers”, “Orienteering with Elizabeth”, etc – “some of the finest and most artful poems of his generation, not just here but across the globe” (Gerald Dawe).
Foolscap 4to (22cm). (60),[iv]pp. Original maroon rexine, lettered in gilt; top edge faintly spotted, but otherwise very good in the Paul Barrass dust-jacket – also very good.

£20

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Dublin : Dolmen Press, 1962. First edition. A collection of twenty-five poems, including “Wedding Morning”, “Cover Her Face”, “Tyrant Dying”, “Mirror in February”, etc. “Kinsella stands with Joyce as one of the great innovators in modern Irish literature” (Gerard Smyth, Irish Times, 22nd December 2021).
Post 8vo (22cm). (64)pp. Original grey cloth, lettered in black; faint spotting to top edge, but a very good copy in the dust-jacket – just lightly used, but also very good.

£25

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Richmond : Keepsake Press, 1977. First edition : one of 168 ordinary copies (of 180). A poem, with a colour-printed linocut by Daphne Lord. Keepsake Poem No. 31.
Crown 4to (24cm). [4]pp. Original bright green wrappers, lettered and decorated in black; a couple of tiny spots, but overall a very good copy, with the original Keepsake Press envelope.

£15

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Dublin : Dedalus Press, (1990). First edition : the hardback issue. A collection of twenty-six poems, including “Long Day Short Night She Dances”, “The Country of Blood-Red Flowers”, “Time and the Ice-Fish”, etc.
Foolscap 4to (22cm). 80,[iv]pp. Original blue rexine, lettered in gilt; mild spotting of top edge, but a very good copy in the original Graphiconies dust-jacket – a striking floral design in yellow, blue and black on white – also very good.

£20

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