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104 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED 98 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED 519. Longley (Ml.) The Ghost Orchid, (Cape 1995) First Edn., signed. V.g. in cloth printed glassine wrappers, inscribed " for Philip / warm wishes / Michael Longley," This is copy 92 of Ltd. Edn. of 150 copies. A lovely copy of one of Cape's finest poetry productions; Selected Poems, (Cape 1998) First Edn., signed. v.g. in cloth dust wrapper. Inscribed: " for Phil / warmest wishes / Michael Longley 16.ix.99"; Snow Water, (Cape 2004) First Edn, v.g. in wrappers, as issued. Flat-signed; Gorse Fires, (Wake Forest 1991) First US Edn., signed. V.g. in wrappers. Inscribed " for Philip / Warm wishes / Michael Longley." Selected Poems 1963- 1980 (Wake Forest 1981) First US Edn., flat-signed. vg. in wrappers. Laid in 3 acs. (5) €180-€220 520. Longley (Michael) Fishing in the Sky: Love Poems, (Poet & Printer 1975) First Edn., signed. v.g.; Secret Marriages, (Phoenix Pamphlets 1968) First Edn., signed, in about v.g. wrappers Pp 20 ; Lares (Poet & Printer 1972). Ill. by Brian Ferran. First Edn., signed. V.g. in age-toned stitched card wrappers. (3) €150-€200 521. Longley (Ml.) Patchwork, (Gallery 1981) First Edn., drawings by James Allen, Ltd Edn. 500, (unnumbered), signed by poet and artist, v.g. in grey paper boards, quarter cloth. Spine & edges faded; The Rope-Makers: Fifty-Six Love Poems, (Enitharmon 2005) v.g. in marbled paper wrappers as issued. This is No 7 of 175, numbered and signed by author. A lovely copy; Fireflies at the Waterfall, (Printed for Associazione per il premio Librex Montale) 2005 v.g. in stapled wrappers. Pp 20. (3) €150-€200 522. Friday (Gavin) & Bono, with Jordan & Ev. Prokofiev's Peter & the Wolf, (Bloomsbury 2003) fine - booklet & CD box, as issued. (1) €60-€80 523. McGahern (John) Getting Through, (Faber 1978) First Edn., signed. v.g. in cloth, d.w. spine faded. Inscribed " for Philip Murray / John McGahern / April 1990," A clean, tight copy; High Ground, Faber 1985) First Edn., signed, v.g. in cloth d.w. rubbed, toned/spotted to endpapers and dust wrapper verso. Inscribed " for Dr. P. Murray / with all good wishes / John McGahern / June 1987," Further inscribed with the last line from Gold Watch, ; By The Lake, (Knopf 2002) First US Edn., (published by Faber as "That They May Face the Rising Sun," v.g. in cloth, dust wrapper. Inscribed " for Philip Murray / with much affection/ John McGahern / 1st August 2002." (3) €150-€220