THE WOMAN OF THE HOUSE
Murphy, Richard
Published by The Dolmen Press, Dublin, Ireland, 1959
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Octavo, 8 1/4" x 5 1/4." pp. 12. Unsigned. Light blue paper wrappers with moderate toning to edges. Black and red lettering to front cover with black printers device designed by Liam Miller. Thread stitched spine. Pages very clean, set in 11 point Janson type. Misprint pp. 10 printed at [01]. 1/250 copies. (Miller 34). The Irish Poet Richard Murphy (1927-2018) wrote this narrative poem as an elegy for his grandmother, Lucy May Ormsby. A biographical entry on Murphy remarks that the poem was "created from memory.one which vividly succeeds in evoking the lost world of the Ascendancy.written in a rhythmic, four-stress, accentual meter, with some alliteration and the use of half-rhyme" (Poetry Foundation). The present copy is an early poem by an acclaimed Irish poet and an early publication of the fine press printer The Dolmen Press. The Press, founded by Liam Miller and his wife Josephine in 1951, printed Irish poetry and literature using a small handpress and high-quality paper. Each book was expertly designed with meticulous attention paid to page layout, typography, and illustrations. Liam Miller supervised the production of nearly 324 books until his death in 1987, the same year the press closed. The Press's commitment to a high standard of printing and its exclusive focus on Irish authors and artists had a lasting influence on Irish publishing. The Dolmen Press publications exemplify the rich culture and heritage of Irish craftsmanship, literature, and book design. Seller Inventory # 85091
Bibliographic Details
Title: THE WOMAN OF THE HOUSE
Publisher: The Dolmen Press, Dublin, Ireland
Publication Date: 1959
Binding: Softcover
Condition: Very good
Edition: Limited Edition.
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The Woman Of The House [Signed copy]
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The Dolmen Press, Dublin, 1959
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Soft cover
First Edition
Signed
Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, United Kingdom
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 12pp. VG/no jacket. Limited edition of 250 copies printed in Dublin in May 1959. Light brown thin card covers with black and red lettering on face. Price unclipped. Cotton thread binding. Sun darkened edges to covers. Tiny closed tear to top of back cover (5mm). Page number at foot of p10 printed in reverse [01]. Publisher's motif printed red on title page and another (much smaller) motif appears on limitation page (p12). SIGNED by the author of title page. Rare copy. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 007294
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The Woman of the House
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Dolmen Press 1959, 1959
Used
Softcover
First Edition
Seller: Peter J. Hadley Bookseller ABA ILAB, Ludlow, United Kingdom
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VG in slightly browned publishers wrappers in browned dustjacket with couple small chips. 1st edition, 1st issue. Limited to 250 copies.From the Library of Rosemary Goad, first female Director of Faber and Faber. ISBN B001OMXM9O. Seller Inventory # PJH54083
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THE WOMAN OF THE HOUSE: An Elegy.
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Dublin: The Dolmen Press., 1959
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Softcover
First Edition
Signed
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
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First edition, first printing. One of 250 copies. Signed by the author. Original stitched card wraps, with integral dustwrapper lettered black and red to the front panel. A very near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout. There are a handful of small, light indentations visible to the outer edge of the front of the dustwrapper, which is also a little toned to the margins. On page 10, the author has struck through the line, "While the mist came down like chronic catarrh", with its replacement, the more innocuous non-simile, "Under leaky thatch listening to seabirds" written above (a change that the author seemingly made to copies he signed). Priced 5s net to the front flap. A particularly attractive copy. Signed by the author in blue ink to the verso of the second blank page at the front. 'The Woman of the House', subtitled 'An Elegy', as the author's short prefatory note explains, was written "In memory of Lucy, widow of Lieutenant-Colonel the Reverend Thomas Ormsby, D. S. O., of Milford, Cloghan's Hill, County Galway, by her grandson. 1873 - 1958". According to the poem's opening lines, it was Lucy who, "On a patrician evening in Ireland / [.] in the guest-room: delivered me". In return, he proposes to "deliver her from the cold hand / Where now she lies, with a brief elegy". Across twenty-four unrhymed quatrains, it is both tribute and reanimation, a "grave and tender elegy", as Seamus Heaney has written of the poem, through which the poet's beloved grandmother, "Beneficent, munificent, [.] is made to walk again behind the dry-stone walls of the quatrains, each of which forms a kind of invocation." (Seamus Heaney, 'The Poetry of Richard Murphy', in Maurice Harmon (Ed.), 'Richard Murphy: Poet of Two Traditions' [Dublin, 1978]) Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. Seller Inventory # 24633
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The Woman of the House: An Elegy.
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Dublin: The Dolmen Press, 1959, 1959
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First Edition
Signed
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
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First and limited edition, one of 250 copies. Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the title page: "For Darrel Simmons with best wishes Richard Murphy, 14 April 1977 at Chicago"; and with an authorial correction at page 10, changing the line "While the mist came down like chronic catarrh" to "Under leaky thatch listening to seabirds". An early piece by the distinguished Irish poet, printed by the Dolmen Press: "one of the key players in the resurgence of Irish publishing in the twentieth century" (Derval Tubridy in The Oxford History of the Irish Book, volume V: The Irish Book in English 1891-2000, 2011, chapter 25). Octavo, pp. 12. Original printed wrappers, stitched as issued. Vignette on title page and colophon printed in red. Front panel toned at head. An excellent copy. Seller Inventory # 110120
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