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First edition. Hardcover issue. Signed by the author. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Charles Tyrell illustrated dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owners' marks. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper that is without fading, loss or tears.

Signed by the author in black ink on the title page. The Belfast born author's second collection of prose, following Journalism (1996). Best known as a poet, Mahon has also published a considerable body of prose. This, mostly newly collected material includes 'Critical' essays - on Swift, Coleridge, Yeats and Dylan Thomas among others and autobiographical excursions - 'Huts and Sheds', 'The Poetry Nonsense', 'Bowen on the Box' and 'Indian Ink'. The first edition was published in simultaneous paperback and hardcover editions, on 31 March 2012.