RICHARD MURPHY. — The Mirror Wall. Poems. (INSCRIBED)

Bloodaxe Books, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First edition, the card wrapper issue, which was published simultaneously with a casebound issue. A presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title "To Gerard Lee, a young poet coming into his own with a bright future. Richard Murphy 11 August 1989" and with Murphy's inked quotation from Nadezhda Mandelstam to the adjacent inner wrapper. Slim 8vo. 64pp. Glossy card wrappers. With five colour plates, and various line-drawn vignettes throughout. A fine copy. A two-page preface by the author precedes seventy-seven poems, the author's fifth full-length collection of verse. The recipient of Murphy's inscription, Gerard Lee, in an Australian novelist and screenwriter, perhaps most noted for co-writing Jane Campions' Camera d'Or-winning debut 'Sweetie', and her later television series 'Top of the Lake'. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]., Fine