frontispiece by George Morrow, title-page printed in black and green, pp. xliv, 347, crown 8vo, original blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, edges slightly toned and spotted, dustjacket a little faded to backstrip panel with a few chips, the most substantial of these at head of front panel, very good. A scarce volume, combining traditional and contemporary verse - and notable for the inclusion of James Joyce's 'Strings in the Earth and Air', an appearance not mentioned in Slocum & Cahoon. It also collects four poems by W.B. Yeats (these not mentioned in Wade). Dating of the volume, with no orientation provided in the useful places on the book itself, is a bit uncertain - the 'late A.H. Leahy' in the Acknowledgements suggests it may be as late as 1928, but Francis Ledwidge, who died in 1917, is not referred to as 'late', and Katharine Tynan's 'Wild Harp' (published in 1913) is counted as 'recent'. The earliest mention of the anthology that we have found is in an issue of The Bookman from 1915; the dustjacket advertises a book published in 1923. Seller Inventory # 75022

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Title: The Book of Irish Poetry. [Every Irishman's ...

Publisher: The Talbot Press & T. Fisher Unwin n.d. circa ?

Publication Date: 1928

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