North
London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1975. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo. Very Good. Item #002833
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 inscription to FFEP. Offsetting to endpapers at rear. In North Seamus Heaney found a myth which allowed him to articulate a vision of Ireland - its people, history and landscape. Here the Irish experience is refracted through images drawn from different parts of the Northern European experience, and the idea of the north allows the poet to contemplate the violence on his home ground in relation to memories of the Scandinavian and English invasions which have marked Irish history so indelibly.
Price: $80.00