The Bright Temptation. New York: William Morrow, 1932. First American Edition. Pp 312. Black cloth boards, title labels to upper cover & spine, in publisher’s pictorial dust jacket. Jacket chipped at head of spine, otherwise a very good copy.

The Irish poet’s first novel, a story set in medieval Ireland, in the era of the Vikings.

The book was banned in Ireland under the Censorship of Literature Act, and was first published in Ireland by the Dolmen Press in 1965.