Collected Pruse. London: Macgibbon,1967. First Edition. Frontispiece portrait by Sean O’Sullivan. Pp, 287. Green cloth, yellow dust jacket printed in brown. Pale stain to margin of front free endpaper, neat pen annotations to pages 62-63, otherwise a nice bright copy.

An account of the life and sport of Monaghan – the setting of many of Kavanagh’s memorable poems.

There are aphorisms, criticism and gaiety in plenty. An account for the famous libel action that Kavanagh brought against the small-circulation journal ‘The Leader’ in 1954 is included.