THE SEASIDE CEMETERY: A version of 'Le Cimitière marin' by Paul Valéry.

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author and artist. Limited edition. Original orange card sewn wraps lettered and illustrated in black to the front panel. Pale orange endpapers. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout.

Issued in a limited edition of 175 numbered copies (of which 150 were available for sale), this example is numbered 161 and signed by Derek Mahon and Fionnuala Ní Chiosáin in black ink to the limitation page at the rear. Mahon's English version of 'Le Cimetière marin', Paul Valéry's poem inspired by the Mont St-Clair cemetery in his home town of Sète in south-west France and first published in the 'Nouvelle Revue Française' in 1920.