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London : Faber & Faber, (1969). First edition. His second full-length collection of poems – thirty-four poems, including “Night-Piece” , “The Outlaw” , “The Forge” , “Girls Bathing, Galway 1965” , “Whinlands” , and all seven poems of the “Lough Neagh Sequence” . “Mr. Heaney combines a vividness of sense impressions with brain-work” (Belfast News-Letter, 20th June 1969).
Demy 8vo (23cm). 56pp. Original black cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt; a few faint marks, but still a very good and bright copy in the dust-jacket – the jacket very slightly bruised at one corner, with a couple of minuscule nicks and some spotting to the flaps, but otherwise also very good.

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London : Faber & Faber, (1984). First edition : the first issue, with the integral endpapers. One of the most celebrated collections of poems of modern times – over forty poems from Heaney at the height of his powers. “Many of these poems have a tough rind as though the author knew for his purposes deferred comprehension was better than instant. Obliquity suits him. Heaney’s talent, a prodigious one, is exfoliating and augmenting here” (Richard Ellman).
Post 8vo (21cm). (124),[iv] – including integral endpapers. Original black boards, ruled and lettered in gilt; a very good copy indeed – bright, clean and sound, in an equally unflawed dust-jacket.

£200

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London : Faber & Faber, (1996). First edition. Heaney’s first post-Nobel collection of poems and 1996 Whitbread winner – some forty poems, including “The Rain Stick”, “Poet’s Chair”, “At the Wellhead”, etc. “Anyone who reads poetry has reason to rejoice at living in the age when Seamus Heaney is writing” (Richard Tillinghast in the New York Times Book Review).
Demy 8vo (23cm). [x],70pp. Original green boards, lettered in gilt; a very good copy indeed in the dust-jacket – the jacket equally very good.

£100

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