The Great Hunger. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1942. First Edition, Limited Issue. Pp, 33. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1942. Publisher’s quarter linen paper boards. Light fading to covers, otherwise a fine bright copy.

Limited Edition of 250 Numbered Copies.

This, the first publication of Kavanagh’s ‘The Great Hunger,’ is a major highlight from the Cuala Press canon of published literature. The work is regarded as the poet’s greatest creative work. It is fashioned from Kavanagh’s own personal observations of how life on the land could restrict human development.

Ex libris English poet, novelist and essayist Stephen Spender (1909-1995) whit his bookplate to front pastedown.