James Clarence Mangan. His Selected Poems With a Study by the Editor. London: John Lane, Boston: Lamson Wolffe. 1897. First Edition. Pap, 361. With frontispiece portrait and fully illustrated title page. Green cloth boards with gilt decoration to spine. Covers lightly worn, rear joint a little worn but still intact and strong.

James Clarence Mangan was born in Dublin just before Robert Emmet’s failed rebellion in 1803, and died in destitution in 1849, as the Great Famine drew to a close. W.B. Yeats considered Mangan one of the best Irish poets, along with Thomas Davis and Samuel Ferguson, claiming, “To the soul of Clarence Mangan was tied the burning ribbon of Genius.” James Joyce wrote two essays on Mangan, and also used his name in his works.

Louise Imogen Guiney was a poet, essayist, literary critic, biographer & a renowned scholar of seventeenth-century poetry.