Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, [1967]. First Thus. Thick octavo (23cm.); original cloth in blue and white decorative dust jacket, black topstain; xii,404pp.; portrait frontispiece. Light wear to top edge of jacket with a couple short closed tears and mild creasing, else Very Good and sound. Diary of the Victorian..... More

London: Faber and Faber, 1957. First U.K. Edition. First impression. 12mo. Card wrappers with integral dustwrapper; 37,(1)pp. A very clean copy, practically free of wear or toning; Near Fine. Dustwrapper price of 5s net intact at lower front flap. More

Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1963. First Edition. First printing, trade issue. 12mo. Printed, sewn paper wrappers; 89pp. Some very mild dusting to exterior and a tiny nick at upper edge of front wrapper; text partially unopened (and one fold opened roughly, though without loss); Very Good or better in the..... More

New York: Grove Press, 1995. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Textured ivory paper-covered boards; dustjacket; xxxii,294pp. Fine, unmarked copy in unclipped and unworn dustwrapper. A new-appearing copy. From the library of noted poet and translator Nathaniel Tarn, with his printed bookplate inside front cover. More

Dublin / London: Black Cat Press / Faber & Faber, 1986. First Trade Edition. Quarto. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xxviii,401pp; illus. Tight, clean, and unmarked; about Fine. In the original dustwrapper, slightly rubbed and frayed at spine ends, VG+. An attractive copy of this extensive photo-essay, documenting the sources and inspirations..... More

New York: The Devin-Adair Company, 1958. First Edition. Octavo (21cm); one quarter white cloth, with black cloth sides, green titles on spine; orange and green dustwrapper; 3-278pp. Dustwrapper sunned, especially along spine; extremities chipped, with small tears and areas of minor material loss; shelf wear and soiling. Textblock edges foxed..... More

Paris: Jeannette Monnier, 1933. First, Limited Edition. First impression. Slim 12mo; printed card wrappers; 15pp. A nicely preserved copy - text mildly toned, else Near Fine. The Irish Catholic poet's solo debut collection. Coffey (1905-1995) studied with Jacques Maritain in Paris, where he also befriended fellow Irish writers Samuel Beckett..... More

New York: Harper Collins, 1993. First American Edition. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 772pp; plates. Text clean and unmarked save for a brief pencil note on final index page. Light dusting to text block edges, still a tight, clean Near Fine copy in clean dustwrapper. More

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1936. Third Edition. Octavo (21.25cm.); publisher's cloth in yellow decorative dust jacket printed in green and black; vi,[2],329pp. Jacket uniformly dust-soiled, extremities a bit rubbed and worn, spine darkened, ownership rubberstamp of an Albert E. King to bottom textblock edge, else Near Fine in..... More

New York: McDowell Obolensky, 1958. Revised Edition. First Printing. Bookplate signed by the author is loosely laid-in. Octavo (21cm); black cloth covered boards titled in gilt on the spine; red topstain; dustjacket by Alfred Manso; 327pp.; mild sunning to the edges of endpapers; topstain slightly faded near spine; spine ends..... More

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1832-33-34. Together, ten 12mo volumes (18cm); uniformly bound in 19th-c. half-calf over marbled boards. Vols. I-IX issued with engraved frontispieces and engraved title pages; Vol X, issued later but bound uniformly, with printed title page and no frontispiece. Mild crazing to spine-leather on about half..... More

Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. First Edition. Octavo (24cm). Publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt; plain endpapers; xii,130pp; 6 color plates, black and white plates throughout. Bookplate of James Mead. Gently bumped at corners, else fresh and clean: Near Fine. More

London: Printed for W. Osborne, and T. Griffin, and H. Mozley, Gainsbro', 1789. First U.K. Edition. Twelvemo. 16cm. Contemporary tree calf with red leather title label and quite lavish gilt decoration to spine. [viii]; 9-238pp. Strong and very pretty, some light rubbing and scuffing to edges and extremities; internally clean..... More