New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2000. Hardcover. 8vo. Bilingual edition. Quarter black cloth, speckled black paper boards. xxxi, 213 pp. Fine condition. Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes..... More
London: Faber & Faber, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Full green paper boards. 76 pp. Fine in fine jacket. Laid-in poem from the Times Literary Supplement, November 2004. More
London: Faber & Faber, 2006. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo. First paperback edition. 76 pp. Fine. More
London: Faber & Faber, 1972. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. 42 pp. Fine condition. A collection of poetry (originally published in 1969) by Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney. More
London: Faber & Faber, 2001. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Full black cloth boards. 81 pp. Very slight age toning to edges of pages, else a fine copy. Seamus Heaney's new collection travels widely in time and space, visiting the sites of the classical world, revisiting the poet's childhood: rural electrification..... More
London: Faber & Faber, 2002. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Full white cloth boards. x, 416 pp. Fine condition, in fine unclipped dust jacket. Finders Keeprs is a gathering of Seamus Heaney's prose of three decades. Whether autobiographical, topical, or specifically literary, these essays and lectures circle the central preoccupying questions..... More
London: Faber & Faber, 1987. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First issue in soft cover. 51 pp. Widely and justly celebrated for his flawless handling of the lyric, Seamus Heaney is here shown venturing into new imaginative territory. Poems exploring the theme of loss, and in..... More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1987. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Full red cloth. 51 pp. Dust jacket slightly sunned to spine, else fine. This collection of thirty-one poems is Seamus Heaney's first since Station Island (1985). More
London: Faber & Faber, 1987. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First issue in soft cover. 51 pp. Widely and justly celebrated for his flawless handling of the lyric, Seamus Heaney is here shown venturing into new imaginative territory. Poems exploring the theme of loss, and in..... More
London: Faber & Faber, 2010. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Full burgundy paper boards. 85 pp. Fine in fine jacket. Human Chain is Seamus Heaney's twelfth collection of poems. More
London: Faber and Faber, 1988. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. x, 245 pp. Creasing to covers and spine. Some light age toning to covers and interior. Near fine. More
London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1975. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo. 1975 reprint of paperback first edition. 73 p.p. Some wear and sunning to joints and spine, wear to edges and front cover, bumping to corners, some spotting to rear cover. Light tanning to edges of text block. Ink ownership..... More
New York: The Noonday Press, 1996. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. 228 pp. About fine. This volume of poems was selected by Heaney himself, and is taken from four previous volumes: Death of a Naturalist, Door into the Dark, Wintering Out, and North. More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Full brown paper, black spine label. 224 pp. Dust jacket stained to rear cover, else fine in a fine jacket. Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney's first collection of prose, Preoccupations, begins with a vivid account..... More
London: Faber & Faber, 1984. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. 224 pp. Age toning to pages. About fine. Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney's first collection of prose, Preoccupations, begins with a vivid account of his early years on his father's farm in Northern Ireland and..... More
London: Faber & Faber, 1995. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Full grey cloth. xviii, 213 pp. About fine. These lectures were delivered by Seamus Heaney while he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford. More
London: Faber & Faber, 1996. Soft cover. 8vo. Soft cover. xviii, 212 pp. Remainder mark to tail edge. About fine. These lectures were delivered by Seamus Heaney while he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford. More
London: Faber & Faber, 1991. 1st Edition Thus. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 1st paperback. Soft cover. 113 pp. Rubbed to extremities, foxed to front cover. Soiling to fore edge of text block. Ownership inscription to ffep. Interior is age toned. More
London: Faber and Faber, 1980. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. 136 pp. Some light age toning to covers and interior. Remainder mark to tail edge. Price sticker to rear cover stating $7.95 in Canada. This volume of poems was selected by Heaney..... More
London: Faber & Faber, 1996. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Full green cloth. 70 pp. Fine condition. This is Heaney's first book of poems after winning the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature. It comes five years after his most recent collection, Seeing Things, which was..... More
London: Faber & Faber, 1996. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. 70 pp. A few light spots of rubbing, else in fine condition. This is Heaney's first book of poems after winning the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature. It comes five years after..... More
London: Faber & Faber, 1984. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. 123 pp. Age toning to paper, else fine. The title poem of this collection is set on an island, which as been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A...... More
London: Faber & Faber, 1992. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. ix, 75 pp. Fine condition. Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibhne. Its hero, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adventures after he is cursed by a...... More
London: Faber & Faber, 1983. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. 85 pp. About fine. Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibhne. Its hero, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adventures after he is cursed by a saint..... More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1984. Hardcover. 8vo. 85 p.p. Quarter-bound cloth. Inner flaps of dust-jacket price clipped. Fine copy of book. This collection of poems is a version of the Irish poem 'Buile Suibhne Geilt', written by Seamus Heaney. More