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Special Collections. LIU Post. Brookville, New York 11548 The Special Collections. LIU Post. Brookville, New York 11548 The Winthrop Palmer Collection of French and Irish Rare Books: Anthologies and Collections Anthology of Mexican Poetry. Translated by Samuel Beckett. Complied by Octavio Paz. Preface by C. M. Bowra. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1958. (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works: Latin American Series). 1st edition. (c.t.: Mexican Poetry: An Anthology). An Anthology of Pure Poetry. Edited with an Introduction By George Moore. New York: Boni and Liveright Inc., 1924. 1st American edition. Limited to 1,000 numbered copies. This is no. 478. Signed by Moore. Arikha. Texts by Richard Channin, André Fermigier, Robert Hughes, Jane Livingston, Barbara Rose, and Samuel Beckett. Interviews: Barbara Rose, Joseph Shannon, Maurice Tuchman. With 189 illustrations. Paris: Hermann, 1985. 1st edition. Articulations: Poetry, Philosophy, and the Shaping of Culture. Seamus Heaney, includes Heaney's essay: "Holding Patterns...". Royal Irish Academy Cunningham Medal: 28 January, 2008. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2008. 1st edition limited to 500 numbered copies. This is no. 110 of 450 signed by the President of the Royal Irish Academy. As No Other Dare Fail: for Samuel Beckett on his 80th Birthday by his friends and admirers. London: John Calder; New York: Riverrun Press [1986]. 1st edition limited to an unspecified number of copies. This is no. 18. Ownership of Charles Monteith, one of the contributors. Includes Beckett's reminiscence: "The Capital of the Ruins". At Six O'clock in the Silence of Things... A festschrift for James Simmons. Belfast: Lawping Publications. Portmuck, Islandmagee, Antrimi: The Poet's House, 1993. 1st edition. Signed by Simmons. The Best Plays of 1955-1956. Edited by Louis Kronenberger. Illustrated with photographs and with drawings by Hirschfield. New York and Toronto: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1956. 1st edition. (The Burno Mantle Yearbook). Includes an excerpt of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot". Best Short Stories from the Paris Review. Introduction by William Styron. Includes "Stones" (extract from Molloy) by Samuel Beckett. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc., 1959. "First Edition". The Birmingham Six: An Appalling Vista. Edited by Oscar Gilligan. Dublin: Literéire Publishers, 1990. 1st edition, limited to 100 numbered copies. This is no. 63. Signed by contributors: Louis le Brocquey, Seamus Deane, Paul Durkin, Patrick Galvin, Seamus Heaney, Thomas Kinsella, and Frances Stuart. Includes an excerpt from Heaney's "The Cure at Troy"; a version of Sophocles' "Philoctetes". Bitter Harvest: An Anthology of Contemporary Irish Verse. Selected and Introduced by John Montague. New York: Charles Schribner's Sons, 1989. 1st American edition. Uncorrected proof copy. Inscribed by Montague. Signed by Derek Mahon and Paul Muldoon at their contributions. A Book of Irish Verse: selected from modern writers with an introduction and notes by W. B. Yeats. London: Metheun and Co., 1895. 1st edition. The Book of Rhymers' Club. London: Elkin Mathews at the Sign of the Bodley Head, 1892. Limited to 450 copies of which 350 are for sale. 1st edition. (c.f. The Second Book of the Rhymers' Club). Brian Bourke: Five Decades 1960s-2000s. Dublin: The Lilliput Press, 2012. Includes contribution by Seamus Heaney, Eva Bourke, Desmond Egan [et al.]. 1st edition, limited to 250 numbered copies. This is no. 93. Signed by Bourke. The Bright Wave. An Tonn Gheal: Poetry in Irish Now. Edited by Dermot Bolger. Introduction by Alan Titley. Dublin: Raven Arts Press, 1986. 1st edition. Broadsides: A Collection of New and Old Songs. Song by W. B. Yeats, James Stephens, F. R. Higgins, Frank O Connor, Lynn Doyle, Bryan Guiness, Padriac Colum. Illustrations by Jack B. Yeats [et al.]. Music by Arthur Duff. Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1935. 1st edition limited to 100 copies. Signed by Yeats and Higgins. Celebration: A Salute to a Visiting Artist. Edited by Jim Fitzgerald. Dublin: Veritas Publications, 1979. 1st Edition. Signed by contributors- Seamus Heaney, Tomás Mac Síomóín, Paul Muldoon, John Hewitt, Richard Murphy, and Michael Longley. Inscribed by Brendan Kennelly and Sydney Bernard Smith. Charles' Wain: A Miscellany of Short Stories. London: Mallinson [1933]. 1st edition limited to 95 numbered copies, 85 of which are for sale. This is no. 7. Signed by contributors- Sean O'Fadain, Liam O'Flaherty, Einnor O'Duffy, and 15 others. Come Hither: a collection of rhymes and poems for the young of all ages. Made by Walter de la Mare and embellished by Alec Buckels. New York: Alfred and Knopf [1923]. 1st American edition. Inscribed by de la Mare. Includes poems by Oliver Goldsmith, James Clarence Mangan, Katherine Tynon, and W. B. Yeats. Contact Collection of Contemporary Writers. Djune Barnes Bryher, Mary Butts, [et al.]. Paris: Contact Editions, Three Mountains Press, 1925. 1st edition. Includes a "work in progress" (4 pp.) by James Joyce. Dànta idir Ghæilge agus Bhéarla. Includes "Hailstones" by Seamus Heaney. Winston-Salem, North Carolina: Wake Forest University Press, 1984. 1st edition, limited to 275 copies. Dea Imagistes: An Anthology. New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1914. 1st edition. Includes James Joyce's poem: "I Hear an Army." The Dolmen Book of Irish Christmas Stories. Edited by Dermot Bolger. Ann Devlin, Brian Lynch, Pat McCale [et al.]. [Mountrath, Portlaoise] The Dolmen Press [1986]. 1st edition. Signed by Bolger. Dove - Marks on Stone: Poems for George Mackay Brown. Edited by K. A. Perryman. Schondorf, Germany: Babel, 1996. 1st edition. Includes "A Landfall" by Seamus Heaney. The Dublin Book of Irish Verse 1728-1909. Edited by John Cooke. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis & Co. London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1909. 1st edition. Includes three poems by Joyce, his first anthology appearance. Dublin Verses by Members of Trinity College. Edited by H. A. Hinkson. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis & Co., 1895. 1st edition. Includes five poems by Oscar Wilde. Es Tu '82: An Anthology of Modern Irish Writing. [Dublin] Es Tu Press, [1982]. The European Caravan; An Anthology of the New Spirit in European Literature. Compiled and Edited by Samual Putnam, Maida Castelhun Darnton, George Reavey and J. Bronowski. New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1931. 1st edition. (Part I: France, Spain, England and Ireland). Includes four poems by Samuel Beckett, an excerpt from James Joyce's "Ulysses", and contributions by Guillaume Apollinaire, Jean Cocteau, Tristan Tzara [et al]. Evergreen Review Reader 1957-1966. Editor: Barney Rosset... New York: North Star Line, Blue Moon Books, 1993. 1st edition, 1st printing. Includes Samuel Beckett's "Dante and the Lobster" and "The Expelled". An Examination of James Joyce. Analyses of the "Work in Progress" by Samuel Beckett, Marcel Brion, Frank Budgen [et al]. Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1939. 1st American edition. (et. Our Exagmination Round His Factification...). The Faber Book of Irish Verse. Edited by John Montague. London and Boston: Faber and Faber [1978]. Inscribed by Montague to the Canadian writer Greg Gatenby. Faceless Monsters. Guest Editor: Nuala Ní Chonchúir. [Dublin]: The Atlantis Collective [2010]. Original Writing. Signed by contributors: Dara O'Foghiúr, Aideen Henry, Alan Cadeen, and Máire T. Robinson. Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry. Edited and Selected by W. B. Yeats. London: Walter Scott. New York: Thomas Whittaker. Toronto: W. J. Gage & Co., 1888. 1st edition, 1st issue. (The Camelot series, no. 32). Feathers and Bones: Ten Poets of the Irish Earth. Edited by Sevrin Housen. Sacramento, California: Halcyon Press, [1981]. 1st edition. Inscribed by the editor. Includes six poems by Seamus Heaney. 15 Poems. Published by The Socialist Party, Belfast in Aid of Russian Red Cross. Belfast: Thos. Brough, Cox & Dunn, Printers, 1942. 1st edition. Inscribed by contributor John Hewitt and dated: "9.xi.76". Fighting Tuesdays; Stories by Fourth Year Students from Larkin Community College. Foreword by Roddy Doyle. Introduction by Hugo Hamilton. [Editors: Emily Firetog, Declan Meade]. Dublin: The Stinging Fly Press & Fighting Words, 2012. 1st edition. Initiated by Doyle and signed by Hamilton. Finbar's Hotel. Devised and Edited by Dermot Bolger. London: Picador. Dublin: New Island Books, 1997. 1st edition. Signed by the contributors: Dermot Bolger, Anne Enright, Joseph O'Connor, Hugo Hamilton, Roddy Doyle, Colm Tóibin, and Jennifer Johnson. The First Ten Years: Dublin Arts Festival Poetry. Edited by Peter Fallon and Dennis O'Driscoll. Dublin: Dublin Arts Festival, 1979. 1st edition. Signed by contributor Brendan Kennelly. Includes two poems by Seamus Heaney. The Four Elements. Four broadsides, each signed by the poet. Includes Seamus Heaney's "The Earth House". Wood-engravings by John O'Connor. [Cheltenham, Gloucestershire]: Printed at the Whittington Press for the Friends of the Cheltenham Festival of Literature [1990]. Edition limited to 125 numbered copies. This is no. 106. (In MC3, Heaney 2). The Four Elements. Four broadsides, each signed by the poet. Includes Seamus Heaney's "The Water Pause". Wood-engravings by Gwenda Morgan. [Cheltenham]: Printed at the Whittington Press... [1991]. Edition limited to 125 numbered copies. This is no. 51. (In MC3, Heaney 2). The Four Elements. Four broadsides, each signed by the poet. Includes Seamus Heaney's "The Air Station". Wood-engravings by Miriam Macgregor. [Cheltenham]: Printed at the Whittington Press...[1992]. Edition limited to 125 numbered copies. This is no. 72. (In MC3, Heaney 2). Four Poets for St. Magnus. George Mackay Brown, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, Christopher Fry. [Stromness, Orkney: The Breckness Press] 1987. 1st edition, limited to 80 numbered copies, out of a total of 100. This is no. 46. Includes holograph texts of each poem in facsimile. Signed by each poet. Includes "In Memoriam" by Seamus Heaney. Forward into The Past: For May Sarton on Her eightieth Birthday May 3, 1992. Concord, New Hampshire: William B. Ewert, [1992]. 1st edition, limited to 150 copies. Includes "A Wave from the Distance" by Seamus Heaney. French Writing Today. Edited by Simon Watson Taylor. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, [1968]. 1st edition. Includes "from Molloy" by Samuel Beckett.
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