Mirror Wall by Murphy, Signed (9 results)

Soft Cover. Condition: Fine. 1st US Edition softcover. SIGNED by author on title page (signature only). 61 pages. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Gift inscription by and signed by author; scarce thus. Halfway up the remote fortress of Sigiriya in Sri Lanka is a long wall of polished plaster, with mysterious golden women painted on the rock above, who seem to be dancing in the clouds. Twenty of these frescoes have survived since the end of the fifth century. The Mirror Wall,? as it?s called, is covered with graffiti: hundreds of songs relating to these cloud nymphs, composed by nobles, merchants, travelers and Buddhist monks during the eighth, ninth and tenth centuries. These songs or lyrics were sung, probably with vina, flute and drums, in the gallery beneath the portraits, where the words were written on the wall: love poems, satires, and curses; happy, witty, ironical, and sad celebrations of beautiful, erotic, festive, and sometimes painful experiences. Richard Murphy?s poems were inspired by the songs of the Mirror Wall. Some keep close to the intricate forms and meaning of their Old Sinhala originals. More often they are free versions, elaborating particular images and ideas, bringing in modern voices or combining several songs. Murphy is a member of Aosdána and of the Royal Society of Literature, he has received numerous literary awards, including the British Arts Council Award, the Marten Toonder Award, and the American Irish Foundation Literary Award. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. Signed and Inscribed by the author on the front end page. The jacket is shelf rubbed and bit edge worn. Light marks. Internally clean and tightly bound. [P.K.]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Signed.

Condition: Very Good. 1989. 1st. Paperback. Signed and inscribed by author. Clean copy with minor shelf wear. . . . .

Condition: Very Good. 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed by the author. Also signed on half title. Fine in fine dust wrapper. DW showing light shelfwear, remains fine. First edition copy. . . Signed Copy.

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. First US edition, fine in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper and dated in 1994. Irish poet's collection based on 5th century frescoes in Sri Lanka. Signed by Author.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 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]. Inscribed by Author(s).

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Irish trade paperback edition. Illustrated wrappers. Wraps curled at the corners, thus near fine. Signed by the author on the half title.

64 pp. 8vo. 8-7/8" x 5-5/8" A Fine copy in Nr Fine slipcase. Hand bound in brown full morocco with blindstamping to front board, gilt stamped spine lettering. Marbled eps. TEG. Orange & brown marbled paper slipcase with tan cloth edges 1st Edition. SIGNED / LIMITED, #85 of 100 numbered copies.