MICHAEL LONGLEY. — No Continuing City. Poems 1963-1968.
Gill and Macmillan, Dublin, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing) of the author's first regularly published collection (which was preceded by two pamphlets). Slim 8vo. 56pp. Blue cloth lettered in silver at the spine. Some fairly light spotting to the endpapers and to several concluding leaves, and also to occasional text leaves. A very crisp copy in price-clipped dust wrapper, a little rubbed, marked and chafed, and exhibiting some light internal spotting. A brief dedicatory verse precedes thirty-seven poems. Uncommon, especially in this casebound format (a UK edition was published alongside this Irish issue, but that one was only issued in wrappers)., Very Good, Good