Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Original blue cloth; end-papers browned. Small stamp to front paste-down, "Printed in Great Britain.". First English edition, preceded by the Irish edition printed by the Cuala Press; both include the same preface by Yeats. This work contains not only the collection of poems under the title An offering of swans, but also forty other poems by Gogarty, including Nymphis et Fontibus; To a trout; Pankration; Centaurs; and To death.
Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Gogarty, Oliver. An Offering of Swans. Cuala Press, Dublin, 1923.
Price: US$132.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: One of 300 copies printed, original linen backed boards, card a bit browned and rubbed at extremities, contents fine. Spine label complete.
Seller: Temple Bar Bookshop, Dublin, DUB, Ireland
Gogarty, Oliver. An Offering of Swans. The Cuala Press, Dublin Ireland, 1923.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Boards and endpapers browned at extremities. Very good. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to his friend George Redding. Gogarty quoted some verse by Redding in "As I Was Going Down Sackville Street" (1937) which was partly responsible for Gogarty being charged with libel -- and losing. (Wikipedia). Miller 34. 8vo; pale blue paper-covered boards with buff linen spine and paper label One of 300 copies, unnumbered as was the Cuala custom.
Seller: Blue Whale Books, ABAA, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$160.41 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition thus, of which 300 copies were printed. Slim 8vo. 25pp. Linen backed boards, lettered in black at the upper board and with a printed paper spine label. Corner tips rubbed, and with some discolouration to the board margins. Leaf margins lightly toned. Former owner name neatly inked to a blank preliminary leaf, and purchase details inked to the corner of the adjacent leaf. Tiny Irish dealer plate to the base of the rear pastedown. A good copy. No dust wrapper called-for. Yeats' preface, penned especially for this new edition, precedes twenty-three Gogarty poems. This was the first book published by the Cuala Press following its move from Lower Churchtown Road to the house of William and Georges Yeats in Merrion Square, which was to remain the base until February 1925 when a long-term relocation to Baggott Street was completed. Wade 273.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
GOGARTY Oliver. An Offering of Swans. Cuala Press, Dublin, 1923.
Price: US$160.41 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Unpaginated. 25 poems with Preface by W B Yeats. Pale blue boards quarterbound buff coloured linen in matching slipcase. Title label pasted to spine. Ownership book plate pasted to fep. Boards and slipcase very lightly sunned. Textblock clean tight and bright. A lovely copy of this lmited edition of 300. First book published by Cuala Press. Rare in slipcase.
Seller: David Kenyon, King's Lynn, United Kingdom
Price: US$195.38 + shipping
Description: One of 300 copies Edges of covers just a little faded, otherwise an exceptionally nice copy
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom