Human Chain
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 & 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 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
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 & 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. 1st American Edition. 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
Dublin: The Mercier Press, 1991. Soft cover. 12mo. 217 p.p. Paperback. No jacket. Rubbing to extremities, worse to edges of spine. Interior clean. near fine copy of book. More
Felinfach: Llanerch Publishers, 1995. Soft cover. 8vo. Facsimile reprint of 1935 edition. Soft cover. xii, 204 p.p. Light sunning and creasing to spine, foxing to top edge of text block, small bump to tail edge of rear cover, corrners lightly bumped. Interior clean. The Irish and Welsh poems described in..... More
Dublin: The Mercier Press, 1977. Soft cover. 8vo. 120 p.p. Paperback. Photographs throughout. Staining to book covers. Interior clean, a fine copy of book. More
New York: A New Directions Book, 1944. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Orig. black cloth. 234 pp. [5] plates. Spine tilted, sunning to spine ends and top edges of boards, light soiling to cloth. Bookseller's label of Collier's London Book Shop to front pastedown. Age toning to interior. Dust jacket is..... More
Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1998. Soft cover. 8vo (small). Sixth Print.xi, 180 pp. Slightly cracked inner edges. Light stain to inner rear cover and facing page. More
1st Edition. Soft cover. 5" x 8" N.d., [ca. 1970s] Orig. card wrappers. Unpaged, [28] pp. Soiling to covers. Gift inscription inside front cover, Sharpie asterisk to one poem. 0. More
Belfast: James Cleeland, 1886. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo (large). Purple cloth with floral motif on front and rear board. Title on spine in gilt. viii, 290 p.p., plus [1] p.p. ads. [3] illustrations incl. frontispiece. Head and tail of spine chipped, with some loss. Heavy wear, fraying to edges and..... More
Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 1982. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. First paperback edition. Soft cover. 232 pp. Fully illustrated, mostly in B&W. Covers slightly edge toned, creased to front cover. More
Dundalk: Dundalgan Press (W Tempest) Ltd, 1964. Hardcover. 8vo. Reprinted. 170 p.p. [7] plates with photographs of castles. Frontispiece of Rathmacnee Castle. Pictorial front endpaper showing map of castles mentioned in book. Light sunning to spine and top edge of front board. Small bruise at spine head. Light rubbing to..... More
New York: Wm. L. Allison Co., Publishers. Hardcover. 16mo. N.d., [ca. 1893]. Orig. green cloth. vii, 489 pp. Spine cocked. Fading and staining to cloth. Sporadic light foxing to interior. 0. More
Felinfach: Llanerch Publishers, 1994. Soft cover. Facsimile Edition of the Dublin Edition of 1930. 8vo. xxiv, 187 p.p., plus 1 p.p. ads. Frontispiece from an old painting preserved in the monasterey of Ossek, Bohemia. Light wear to edges, cover. Clean pages. In very good condition. More
Newcastle, Co. Down, Northern Ireland: Mourne Observer Ltd. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. N.d., [ca. 1968?]. Green textured paper boards. xv, 191 pp. B&W illustrations in text. Spine tilted, light rubbing to spine ends. Dust jacket chipped at spine ends, bumped to edges, spot..... More
Newcastle, County Down, Northern Ireland: Mourne Observer Press, 1979. Hardcover. 8vo (square). 86 p.p. First published in the North Down Herald and later published in book from around 1890; re-published with appendix 1979. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to front board, unlettered spine. Spine is tilted, bumping to spine..... More
London: The Hamlyn Publishing Group Limited, 1970. Hardcover. 8vo (imperial). 136 p.p., plus 4 p.p. index and bibliography. Several archaelogical photographs, and in-text illustrations. Previous bookseller label on rear jacket cover. Small tear to head of spine jacket, and wear to edges. Light rubbing to boards, superficial markings. Some yellowing..... More
London: BT Batsford, 1945. Hardcover. 8vo. [Date from Author's Note] Brown cloth-backed spine over tan boards, 59pp. Bookplate of C.B. Farrar on front pastedown. Light rubbing on corners and spine o/w fine in d/w. Scarce with jacket. Early tape repairs to spine ends and some soiling on jacket covers. Revised..... More
Lisburn: Victor McMurray, 1933. Hardcover. 16mo. Original brown cloth. 127pp., plus [8]pp. One plate of the parish church. Inner hinge cracked [pp. 96]. Light fraying at edges of cloth, spine bumped but o/w very good. The book presents a history of the ancient parish of Lambeg, Ireland, which is situated..... More