In Her Own Image. Drawings by Constance Short. Dublin: Arlen House, 1980. First Edition, Limited Issue. Pp, 38. Blue rexine boards, in blue dust jacket printed in whit. Light wear to jacket otherwise a fine bright copy.

The very scarce hardback issue of Boland’s controversial fifth book of poetry.

Boland has written to the rear fly leaf that this edition, is a limited edition of 250 copies, signed by the Author and Illustrator, it has both her signature and the illustrators.

“In 1980 the Irish poet Eavan Boland published In Her Own Image a volume of poetry which stands as a landmark in her career as a writer for its subversive potential to revise creational myths that have contributed to the traditional construction of female subjectivity.” [Female Iconography and Subjectivity: Laura Ma Lojo Rodríguez]