hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st thus Martin Brian & O'Keeffe Hardback in unclipped dust jacket; book clean with no stamps or inscriptions; book mostly free from foxing, but there are spots of foxing to top and side edges of the book block; this book was first published in 1967 and then produced in this edition by the important independent publisher Timothy O;Keeffe in this edition.
Published by MacGibbon & Kee, [London], 1967
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
287, [1]pp. 8vo. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First edition. First edition. 287, [1]pp. 8vo. Inscribed, and signed, by Brendan Kennelly, on front flyleaf: "To Bill & Jackie/ with love YES!/ from Brendan and [with the word 'and' crossed out]"/ Up The Rebels"; also Inscribed by his then wife, Peggy O'Brien, beneath Kennelly's inscription (and just above the 'Up The Rebels' coda): "and Peggy" [she has also drawn an arrow from her name to the word 'love']. Margaret O'Brien, poet and a scholar of Irish literature at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, studied for her master's degree at University College Dublin, in the 1970's, where she met, and soon married, Brendan Kennelly (they later divorced). Binding is lightly bumped on rear cover (at top edge) and at tips of corner, else a near fine copy in very good dust jacket; jacket is moderately soiled on rear panel, spine is tanned, with small chip at crown, else quite bright. Signed.