The Rough Field. Dublin: Dublin: Dolmen, 1972. Pp, 79, uncut. Quarter calf paper boards with illustration to upper cover. LIght rubbing to boards, otherwise a very good copy.

Limited Edition One of 150 copies, Signed by the Author & Specially Bound, of which 125 are for sale. Hand coloured woodcut illustrations adapted from John Derek’s ‘The Image of Irelande’ (1581).

The Rough Field has been praised as the most significant attempt in poetry to understand Northern Ireland’s troubled history.

This copy with complementary slip for the publisher addressed to the author John Montague