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Heaney, Seamus Station Island
New York Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1985 0-374-26978-5 / 9780374269784 First American Edition Hard Cover SIGNED by the Author
[1985]. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Beige boards quarterbound in green cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt. Octavo. 123pps. An excellent, collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. The textblock is immaculate; no reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, appears as new; the original price (11.95) is intact. SIGNED and dated (1988) by the author -- without further inscription -- on the ffep.
"...The title poem of this collection, Seamus Heaney's first after 'Field Work' (1979), is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. Heaney's pilgrim is on an inner journey and proceeds through a series of dream encounters which lead him back into the world that formed him, and then forward to face the crises of the present. It is preceded by a section of richly meditative lyrics and leads naturally into a third group of poems, in which the poet's voice is at one with the voice of the legendary Sweeney, a king of Ulster whose story Heaney translated from the Irish..."
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500.00 USD
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Heaney, Seamus Sweeney Astray
New York, NY, U.S.A. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC 1983 0-374-27221-2 / 9780374272210 First American Edition Hard Cover
First printing. Very Good+ in a Fine dustjacket. Pale green boards quarterbound in brown cloth. The spine is stamped in metallic green. 85pps. A previous owner's penned dedication is at the top of the ffep. Also, page 41 has a crease as well as a small tear out of its lower corner. The dustjacket, glossy in mylar, is in fine condition; the white flaps are faintly dulled. The original price (13.95) is intact.
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35.00 USD
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