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First Edition of Seamus Heaney's Door Into The Dark; Signed by Him
HEANEY, Seamus.
Door Into The Dark.
New York : Oxford University Press 1969
First American edition of the author’s second book. Octavo, original black cloth. Signed by Seamus Heaney on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with two closed tears to the front panel. A very sharp example.
Price: $650.00
First Edition of Seamus Heaney's Door Into the Dark; Signed by Him
HEANEY, Seamus.
Door Into the Dark.
London : Faber and Faber 1969
First edition of the author’s second major collection. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Seamus Heaney on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing. An exceptional example.
Price: $1,450.00
"Who Is Content Only With The Right Word": First Edition of Death of a Naturalist; Inscribed by Seamus Heaney to his Aunt
HEANEY, Seamus.
Death of a Naturalist.
London : Faber and Faber 1966
First edition of Heaney’s first major published volume. Octavo, original green cloth with titles to the spine in gilt. Association copy, inscribed by the author to his aunt in a contemporary hand, “For Aunt Annie: who is content only with the right word. Love, Seamus.” Additionally signed by Heaney in full on the title page. Fine in very good dust jacket with sunning to the pink portion of the spine and some overall wear. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Association copies of this caliber seldom enter the market.
Price: $12,500.00
First Edition of the Nobel Prize-Winning Poet’s First Book Eleven Poems; Signed by Seamus Heaney
HEANEY, Seamus.
Eleven Poems.
Belfast : Festival Publications 1965
First edition, third issue. Octavo, original green wrappers as issued. In near fine condition. Signed by Seamus Heaney on the front cover.
Price: $5,800.00
First Edition of Robert Henryson The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Poet Seamus Heaney
HEANEY, Seamus.
Robert Henryson The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables.
London : Faber & Faber 2009
First British edition of Heaney’s translation of Henryson’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Seamus Heaney on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a closed tear to the front panel.
Price: $350.00
"Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere": First Edition of Beowulf; Signed by Seamus Heaney
HEANEY, Seamus.
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation.
New York : Farrar, Straus Giroux 1999
First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the Seamus Heaney on the title page.
Price: $375.00
"to set the darkness echoing": First American Edition of Death of a Naturalist; Warmly Inscribed by Seamus Heaney
HEANEY, Seamus.
Death of a Naturalist.
New York : Oxford University Press 1966
First American edition of Heaney’s first major published volume. Octavo, original green cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Steve with gratitude-“to set the darkness echoing” 19th March 1970 Seamus Heaney.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket that shows some fading to the pink portion of the spine panel.
Price: $2,200.00
"Between my finger and my thumb the squat pen rest; snug as a gun": First Edition of Seamus Heaney's Death of A Naturalist; Signed by Him
HEANEY, Seamus.
Death of a Naturalist.
London : Faber and Faber 1966
First edition of Heaney’s first major published volume. Octavo, original green cloth with titles to the spine in gilt. Signed by Seamus Heaney on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. A superior example.
Price: $4,500.00
First Edition of The Haw Lantern; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Poet Seamus Heaney
HEANEY, Seamus.
The Haw Lantern.
London : Faber & Faber 1987
First British edition of the poet’s seventh collection. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Seamus Heaney on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $450.00