MONTAGUE, John. The Pear Is Ripe. A Memoir. (Signed limited edition)

Dublin: Liberties Press, 2007. First edition. 8vo. pp. 240. Original blue cloth, title and author lettered in gilt on spine, with illustrated dust jacket and publisher’s slipcase. A fine copy.

Number 182 of a signed limited edition of 200 copies, signed by John Montague on the limitation page.

An important autobiographical work by one of Ireland’s foremost modern poets. Montague recounts his childhood in County Tyrone, his formative years in America and Ireland, and his development as a poet, offering an intimate account of his literary life and the people and places that shaped his work.

A particularly attractive copy of the scarce signed limited issue, complete with its original slipcase.

[L3 6B]