LONGLEY, Michael. Ten Poems. (Signed first edition)

Belfast: Festival Publications at Queen’s University, n.d. Octavo. First edition. pp. 12. Stapled printed wrappers with nine pointed purple sun design denoting first issue. Upper wrapper serving at the title page. The wrapper margins lightly toned. Inscribed by the author, dated 5. XI. 69. A very good copy of the author’s first book, issued here as a Festival Publications pamphlet (the same imprint also issued Seamus Heaney’s elusive first book) four years before his first full-length collection ‘No Continuing City’ (1969). Uncommon. This was one of a series of poetry pamphlets published monthly by members and students. Poems include: Emily Dickinson, Graffiti, Freeze-Up, The Osprey, In Memoriam, etc.

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