1. [John Minihan Collection] – [Minihan, John / Beckett, Samuel].

“Samuel Beckett – A Celebration” – Wonderful piece of Ephemera / Printed Program for the Special Collections Department of the university of Delaware, using photographs of John Minihan to exhibit and celebrate first editions of Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” etc. [Signed by John Minihan].

University of Delaware Library, 2003. 8°. 6 pages. Softcover. Signed by John Minihan. From the personal library of John Minihan !

2. [John Minihan Collection] – [Minihan, John / Beckett, Samuel].

“Samuel Beckett – A Celebration” – Wonderful piece of Ephemera / Printed Program for the Special Collections Department of the university of Delaware, using photographs of John Minihan to exhibit and celebrate first editions of Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” etc. [Signed by John Minihan].

University of Delaware Library, 2003. 8°. 6 pages. Softcover. Signed by John Minihan. From the personal library of John Minihan !

3. Lowth, Robert.

[On the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews] De Sacra Poesi Hebræorum : Prælectiones Academicæ Oxonii habitæ a Roberto Lowth, et poeticæ publico prælectores; nunc episcopo oxoniensii. Subjicitur Metricæ Harianæ brevis confutatio: et Oratio Crewiana.

Editio Tertia, emendatior. Oxonii, E Typographeo Clarendoniano [Imprimatur, J. Browne, Vice-Can. Oxon], 1775. 13 cm x 22 cm. (8), 515 pages plus 11 pages Index and Errata. Original Hardcover / Beautiful 18th century calf with gilt lettering and ornament to spine and the wonderful original marbled endpapers. With the original spinelabel. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. This edition printed on excellent paper with no foxing !

4. Rennert, Jack.

100 Jahre Circus Plakate. [Translates: “100 Years of Circus Advertising Posters”].

Zurich / Stuttgart, Werner Classen Verlag, 1975. Folio. (28 cm wide x 41 cm). 112 pages with illustrations throughout the Volume. Original softcover. Spine damaged with the pages and illustrations loosened.

5. Rogerson, Janet.

A Bad Influence Girl.

First Edition. Norwich, The Rialto, 2012. Octavo. 36 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

6. Ward, John Powell.

A Certain Marvellous Thing.

First Edition. Bridgend, Seren Books, 1993. Octavo. 66 pages. Original Softcover. Near Fine condition with only minor signs of external wear.

7. Howarth, Peter.

A Compendium of Poems and Verse.

First Edition. Castleisland, Walsh, 2000. Octavo. 32 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

8. Bushrui, Suheil.

A Defence of Poetry.

First Edition. London, Temenos Academy, 2000. Octavo. 24 pages. Original Softcover. Near Fine condition with only minor signs of external wear.

9. O’Sullivan, M.L. [Michael John] / [Moore, Thomas].

A Fasciculus of Lyric Verses : By the Late M.J.O’Sullivan, Esq., Barrister at Law, dedicated, (by Permission), to Thomas Moore, Esq. [With a Memoir of the Author and a “Biographical Sketch of the Late Joseph Augustine Wade – The Last Production of the AUthor, written a few days before his death”].

First Edition. Cork, From the Machine of W. Scraggs, 102, Patrick-Street, 1846. Octavo. 84 pages. Private half cloth – binding of the time. Bookblock nearly detached form binding. Some rubbing to corners and spine. Interior, pages and titlepage in excellent condition and very clean. Signed and dated by the preowner in the year 1847 (″JSA” or “HA”). Extremely Rare !

10. Schweik, Susan.

A Gulf So Deeply Cut. American Women Poets and the Second World War.

Madison, The University of Wisconsin Press, 1991. 15 x 23 cm. 385 pages. Paperback. With an emotional inscription/dedication from the author to american poet, Jane Cooper. Very good condition with only minor signs of usage.

11. O’Callaghan, Conor.

A History of Hello.

No. 204 of only 250 copies printed. Nimes, Grand Phoenix Press, 2003. Octavo. 18 pages. Original Softcover. Some minor staining to the frontcover. Otherwise in very good condition.

12. French, Tom (Editor).

A Meath Anthology. With an introduction by Patrick Duffy.

Navan, Meath County Council Library Service, 2010. 14 cm x 21,5 cm. 137 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent, close to new condition. Including a signed manuscript letter by the author.

13. Makoto, Ooka / Fitzsimmons, Thomas.

A Play of Mirrors – Eight Major Poets of Modern Japan [Yoshioka Minoru / Tamura Ryuichi / Iijima Koichi / Tada Chimako / Ooka Makoto / Tanikawa Shuntaro / Shiraishi Kazuko / Yoshimasu Gozo].

Rochester (Michigan), Oakland University / Katydid Books, 1987. Quarto. 312 pages. Original Hardcover. Besides some foxing in very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

14. Posner, David / Hockney, David.

A Rake’s Progress – a poem in five sections. First edition (with the often missing Errata sheet bound in to the rear of the Volume)

No. 218 of a limited edition of 450 copies. London / New York, Lion and Unicorn Press, 1962. Square Folio (39.5 cm wide x 36 cm high). 84 unnumbered pages with illustrations by Hockney throughout. Hardcover / Designed by John Tomlinson. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Wonderful, firm example of this rare publication.

15. [Rilke, Rainer Maria] McCarthy, Patricia (Editor).

A Reconsideration of Rainer Maria Rilke.

Mayfield, Agenda and Editions, 2007. 15 cm x 21 cm. 288 Pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. [Agenda Vol. 42 No 3-4].

16. Garlick, Raymond.

A Sense of Europe. Collected Poems 1954-1968.

First Edition. Wales, Gwasg Gomer, 1968. 22.1cm x 14.3cm. (12) 106 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Dustjacket with mild signs of foxing. Otherwise in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

17. Kavanagh, Patrick.

A Soul For Sale. Poems by Patrick Kavanagh.

First Edition. London, MacMillan & Co.Ltd., 1947. Octavo. 54 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Dustjacket frayed and with some loss. As often with this book, some foxing to book and dustjacket.

18. Hejda, Zbynek.

A Stay in a Sanatorium. Poems translated from the Czech by Bernard O’Donoghue from versions by Šimon Danicek.

Cork, Southword Editions, 2005. 14 cm x 21 cm. 64 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear. Signed by author and translator.

19. Nimmo, Dorothy.

A Testimony to the Grace of God in the Life of James Nayler 1618-1660.

First Edition. York, Sessions Book Trust, 1993. Octavo. IV, 40 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear and some foxing.

20. Poole, Charles Henry (editor).

A Treasury of Bird Poems.

London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd. no year [c.1911]. 13.5 cm x 19.5 cm. XXVII, 511 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original green cloth] with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Gilt top edge and deckled fore and tail-edges. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some foxing to endpapers. Some untrimmed pages. Interior bright and clean. Binding of this rare volume good and firm.