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Belfast : Northern Review, [1965]. The second issue of this impressive "quarterly magazine of the arts", published between 1965 and 1967, this issue including three early poems each from Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon and Michael Longley, with their portraits; further poems from Peter Redgrove, Joan Newmann, Stewart Parker, Marcus Cumberledge, etc.; a short story from Tom Currie; a study of Joyce Cary by Philip Hobsbaum; recollections of Louis MacNeice from George MacCann; a piece from B. S. Johnson entitled "Holes, Syllabics and the Succussations of the Intercostal & Abdominal Muscles", etc.
Crown 4to. (108)pp. Illustrations. Original wrappers; spine very faintly tanned; very slightly rubbed and a little bowed, but otherwise a very good copy.

£40

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London : Workshop Press, [1970]. Issue 11 of the Norman Hidden magazine, with two Heaney poems, "Sea-Wife" and "Woodcut". Other contributors include David Jaffin, Ulli McCarthy, etc.
Post 8vo. 32pp. Original white stapled wraps, ruled and lettered in black; a few very faint marks, but a very good copy.

£10

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Belfast : Arts Council of Northern Ireland, (1977). First edition. Twelve poems from Heaney and fourteen from Mahon, with an introduction, biographical notes, portraits of the two poets, and an illustration from Cathal Caulfield. Produced to accompany the May 1977 readings by the poets at seven venues in Northern Ireland.
Crown 4to (23cm). [24]pp. Original silver stapled wrappers, with lettering and the Caulfield illustration in purple; some mild rubbing, but a very good copy of a fragile and ephemeral publication.

£100

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London : Faber & Faber, (1979). First edition. Signed by Seamus Heaney on the title-page. A major collection of thirty-six poems, elegies, love poems and the Glanmore Sonnets.
Demy 8vo (23cm). 64pp. Original brown boards, lettered down spine in gilt; a very good copy indeed in the brown and orange dust-jacket - the latter price-clipped and sunned (as it almost invariably is) to green-grey at spine, but otherwise also very good indeed.

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London : Faber & Faber, (1980). First edition : [one of just 500 copies in hardback]. An extensive selection of Heaney's earlier work, including many of his finest poems.
Post 8vo (21cm). 136pp. Original blue boards, lettered down spine in gilt; faint ghosting and sunning to boards, but a very good copy in the earlier £3.95 dust-jacket - also very good.

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