The Collected Poems of Oliver St. John Gogarty by Oliver St. John Gogarty - 1954

New York: The Devin-Adair Company. Very Good/No Jacket. 1954. Hardcover. Edition not stated. Very Good Plus condition. Slight wear at extremities with very slightly bumped corners. Contents clean and tight. A nice solid copy of a scarce book. .

New York: Devin-Adair Company. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1954. First Edition. Cloth. Grey / blue cloth covers with gilt titles to the spine. A frontispiece of Gogarty, from a painting by Augustus John. The binding is tight and the interior is unmarked with light browning to the page edges. Spine end and corner bumping, overall in very good condition. The cover is unclippled, in fair conditon with spine browning and chipping. The fornt cover is attached to the spine hinge with tape on the interior. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 212 pages .

New York: Devin-Adair, 1954. First Edition in America. Original Two-tone Cloth. Fine/Very Good.

London: Constable, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo. Hardcover with dust jacket. xxvii, 212 pages. Price located on the front inner flap of the dust jacket. Light toning to the front and rear end sheets by contact with the dust jacket flaps. Marbled paper covered boards. Edition limited to 500 copies.

London: Constable, 1951. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 9" by 6". Not Stated. A smart limited edition, first edition copy of this collection of poems by the Irish poet Oliver St. John Gogarty. The first edition of this work, and one of five hundred limited edition copies, in the publisher's original quarter cloth binding with marbled boards and the original unclipped dust wrapper. Oliver St. John Gogarty (1878-1957) was an Irish poet, author, politician, and well-known conversationalist, who associated with other Dublin literati such as W. B. Yeats and Lord Dunsany. James Joyce based the character Buck Mulligan, in his novel Ulysses, on Gogarty.This anthology contains a selection of his poems, with three prefaces: one written by W. B. Yeats, another by 'A. E.' (George William Russell), and the last by Horace Reynolds. The poems in this work are a mixture of odes, elegies, satires and addresses. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper.… Read More

(New York): Devin-Adair Company, 1954. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Fine in very good dustwrapper with some tanning to the spine and extremities of the panels.

London: Constable, 1951. Hardcover. Very Good. Handsome special edition of Gogarty's collected poems. Limited to 500 copies. Gogarty was a well known figure around Dublin and Trinity College in the early 20th century. He pursed his own literary career as well featuring in the memoirs of other Irish writers. He also served as the inspiration for Stately plump Buck Mulligan in Joyce's Ulysses. Quarter cloth with marbled boards. Dust jacket has some bumping and shelfwear. One small spot of foxing to fore edge. Otherwise crisp and clean. Very good condition.