Soft Day: A Miscellany of Contemporary Irish Writing. University of Notre Dame Press, 1980. Pp xviii, 224. Cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket with brush drawing by louis le Brocquy. Covers lightly faded, contents in very good condition.

Contains work by Liam O’Flaherty, Mary Lavin, Eilis Dillon, Aidan Higgins, Thomas Kinsella, Seamus Heaney, Desmond O’Grady, Seamus Deane, Frank Ormsby, John Banville and many others.