Description
SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, 8vo, pp. xii, 190. Original dark blue cloth, spine lettered in silver, grey dustjacket printed in blue and black Dustjacket spine panel lightly marked. Neatly signed by the author to flyleaf.
The Price of Stone & Earlier Poems.
- Winston-Salem: Wake Forest University Press 1985
£50
Notes
A signed copy of the boards issue of a book that functions as a collected poems by Irish poet Richard Murphy (1927-2018). It unites the first American printing of his sequence of 50 sonnets The Price of Stone, published the same year by Faber in London with material from his earlier collections Sailing to an Island, The Battle of Aughrim, High Island and Care.
