THE POETRY OF DEREK MAHON

First edition, first printing. Inscribed presentation copy. Original black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine. In the dustwrapper showing John Minihan's photographic portrait of Derek Mahon. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout. In the fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy. Uncommon in signed or inscribed state.

Inscribed by the author in black ink to the title page, "For Geoff / fellow traveller in H. M. S. York, / with affection / Hugh, December '07." The recipient is Geoffrey Wall, the acclaimed biographer and translator of Gustave Flaubert, and former Professor in the Deparment of English and Related Literature at the University of York. Haughton's landmark study of Derek Mahon provides a comprehensive account of the full range of the poet's writings in the contexts of both Northern Irish writing and contemporary poetry generally, as well as a compelling intellectual biography. Clearly a labour of love, Haughton's study is likely to remain the standard survey of Mahon and his work.