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

Templeogue, Co. Dublin: The Bridge Press, 1957. First, Limited Edition. One of 200 copies. 12mo. Sewn, printed stiff card wrappers; dustjacket; 29pp. A tight, clean copy, Near Fine. In the printed thick-paper dustwrapper, toned at margins, a couple of tiny nicks at folds; Very Good. Minor but quite uncommon late-career..... More

Dublin: Privately Published, 1930. First Edition. First printing. 12mo. Plain card wrappers with integral, gray printed dustwrapper; 23,[5]pp. A couple of unobtrusive spots of foxing to fore-edge of text block, else a tight, very Near Fine copy. The first book publication for both of these Dublin poets. More

Dublin: The Dolmen Press, 1960. First Thus. 16mo. Printed parchment over boards; [8]pp; text printed in three colors throughout. A fine, apparently unread copy. A beautifully printed reissue of the 1916 Easter broadside proclaiming the establishment of the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic. MILLER. More

London: Printed for R. Hunter, and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1825. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (18cm) in 4 volumes. Contemporary red morocco, with marbled paper over boards, all edges sprinkled red; plain endpapers; vol. I: xviii,287pp; vol. II: [ii],340pp; vol. III: [ii],319pp; vol. IV: [ii],336pp. Armorial bookplate of Richard..... More

Pittsburgh: Friends of Irish Freedom / Liberty Show Print, [1921]. Original, large printed broadside, 72cm x 56cm (ca. 28" x 21-1/2"). Printed in blue on thin cream stock; text in one column with four horizontal rules. Old folds; toning and a few small chips to extremities; a few small archival..... 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

London: The Nonesuch Press, 1946. First Edition. Octavo. 19cm. Publisher's dark brown cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 868pp. Tight and strong, very light wear to extremities; internally clean and fresh; in a strong, handsome example of the dustjacket with some toning to the spine panel and minor fraying..... More

London: Faber & Faber, 1979. First edition. First impression. Octavo; brown cloth; dustjacket 64pp. Fine seemingly unread copy. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced £3.00 net at base of front flap), spine sunned as usual but otherwise crisp and unworn; Near Fine. More

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1984. First American Edition. "Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibhne – the first complete translation since 1913. Its hero, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adventures after he is cursed by a saint and turned into a...... More

V.p. v.d. First Edition. The first U.K. and first American editions of Gallagher's diary kept while imprisoned in Mountjoy Jail, Dublin, in 1920 for his involvement with the militant Irish Volunteers (later the Irish Republican Army). The diary provides a near hour-by-hour account of Gallagher's participation in the Dublin Hunger..... More

London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1966. Second Edition. (First Trade edition). Octavo; stapled signatures laid in to printed green wrappers; 24pp. Some faint spotting to the wrappers, still Very Good or better. Preceded only by a limited printing (250 copies) at the Cuala Press in 1942. This copy with an ink..... More

Dublin: Allen Figgis, 1972. First Edition. Square octavo (21cm). Pictorial cloth-covered boards; [48]pp. Slight toning to spine, else a tight, clean, Near Fine copy. An early-career collection of 48 delightfully earthy sonnets by the prolific, multiple-award winning Irish poet (including the 2010 Irish PEN Award for Contribution to Irish Literature)..... More