Bryan Merriman (11 results)

Condition: Very Good. 1967. paperback. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, spotting on page edges but text not affected, tanned pages, remains very good. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: Very Good. 1967. paperback. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, spotting on page edges but text not affected, tanned pages, remains very good. . . . .

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Later printing. Translated into English by David Marcus with cuts by Michael Biggs. Pictorial wrappers. 44pp. Wrappers lightly rubbed and foxed, corners rubbed, very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Reprint. Reprint. Hardcover. 8 1/4'' X 5 3/4''. 44pp. Dustjacket soiled, some small tears. Previous owners name inked on pastedown.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. maroon cloth spine, green paper-covered boards, spine gilt lettering a little faded, though readable. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Soft cover. 8vo. pp 43. Original publisher's green illustrated covers, lettered black. With cuts by Michael Biggs. Signed presentation from the translator on the on the half title page to Daniel Abse, CBE, FRSL (1923 2014) well respected Welsh and Jewish poet, 'Dannie, Slainte, David - January 1969'. Including a typed signed letter from the translator to Dannie Abse on Irish Press notepaper dated 1970. Slight chip from the middle edge of the front cover, otherwise sound, very good.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The Green card cover is dull but internally this isfine. A very good copy of an extremely rare school text.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Translated to English by Bryan Marcus. Printed at the Dolmen Press, Dublin. Bound in the publisher's quarter cloth with paper covered boards. The extremities and spine ends are a little bumped, but the boards remain bright. The binding is gently strained at the front hinge, else generally tight throughout. The leaves are spotted to the prelims, with the odd spot besides. A smart privately printed copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. DUFOUR EDITIONS, Dublin, 1968. Hardcover. Condition: near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine 1st Reprint. of 1st edition; slight fading to edges of covers, otherwise as new, slight shelf wea,r tanning, to cover, atherwise as new. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. Limited Edition. Rear inner hinge has two small splits. Front cover has some slightly discolored patches. Small tape stain on front endpaper. ; Copy #150 of 200. Signed by Marcus opposite the title page. Illustrated by Biggs, Michael (illustrator).

144/200 COPIES signed by printer and illustrator beneath the colophon, signed by the translator to the verso of the flyleaf (facing title-page), printed in red and black on Antique paper, title-vignette, headpieces and other lino-cut decorations by Michael Biggs, a smattering of faint spots to top corner of prelims (also to flyleaf), pp. [55], folio, original quarter maroon buckram with boards of patterned paper, backstrip lettered in black and gently knocked at foot, a faint strip of browning at head of upper board, top edge red, edges faintly spotted, faint odour of tobacco smoke, very good. Early work from the Press, scarce. The eighteenth-century satirical poem has been translated numerous times; Frank O'Connor's translation a decade earlier had been banned - Seamus Heaney was among the later poets to attempt it. David Marcus, the translator here, was an Irish-Jewish writer who made a major contribution to the country's literature across more than six decades - here early in his career, though having already founded the journals 'Irish Writing' and 'Poetry Ireland'. (Miller 8).…