A Soul for Sale. Poems. London: Macmillan, 1947. First Edition. Pp, 54. Green cloth, title in gilt to spine, in green dust jacket printed in white. Shelf-wear to jacket & chipped along top edge, book in fine bright condition.

Kavanagh’s third volume of poetry following Ploughman and Other Poems (1936) and The Great Hunger (1942). 

Containing eighteen poems including his most famous long poem, “The Great Hunger” a bleak yet profound meditation on rural isolation and spiritual starvation.