Arable Holdings: Poems by F.R. Higgins. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1933. Pp, 42, unopened. Quarter linen boards, title lettered in black to upper cover, title label to spine; in publisher’s glassine jacket. A fine bright copy.

One of 300 Copies Printed.

Signed by the Author on title page.

Mayo born poet, F. R. Higgins began his career as a poet with W. B. Yeats as mentor. He published four volumes of Poetry: Ireland Blood (1925), The Dark Breed (1927), Arable Holdings (1933), with his best-known volume The Cap of Brightness during 1940. He was the author of several plays that included a Deuce of Jacks’ a one-act Comedy produced for the Abbey.