WICKED HEAT.
Pp. 88; demy 8vo; pictorial glazed card wrappers, fore-corners a trifle creased, the upper wrapper faintly scratched; Paper Bark Press, Sydney, 1999. First edition. More
Pp. 88; demy 8vo; pictorial glazed card wrappers, fore-corners a trifle creased, the upper wrapper faintly scratched; Paper Bark Press, Sydney, 1999. First edition. More
Pp. xii+202; small med. 8vo; pictorial glazed paper wrappers; University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, Indiana, 2015. First edition. *Not published in hardcover until 2022. More
Illustrated by Victoria Cooper. Pp. [iv]+44, title page vignette, text illustrations; pictorial glazed papered boards, tiny nick to bottom edge of lower board near fore-corner; Blackie, London, 1987. First edition. *The story is based on an incident in the childhood of the writer Eleanor Farjeon, which she recounted in her..... More
Pp. 94, title page decoration; cream cloth, lettered in red & black, a trifle soiled, bottom edge of boards slightly bruised, as is bottom of spine which is also very slightly split; fore and bottom edges uncut; bookplate of David Levine, Sydney, together with bookseller's sticker on upper pastedown, edges..... More
Pp. 56; pictorial stiff paper wrappers, slightly soiled and rubbed; top edges of leaves faintly foxed; Fiddlehead Poetry Books, Fredericton, New Brunswick, 1979. Edition limited to600 copies. Fiddlehead Poetry Book No. 253. More
Foreword by Bill Shipsey. Afterword by Michael McCann. Pp. 48(last blank), index of first lines; cr. 8vo; blue/grey printed stiff paper wrappers with flap folds, a trifle sprung, the lower wrapper faintly soiled; TownHouse, Dublin, 2004. First edition. *Seamus Heaney's translation of an ode by Horace, together with by 23..... More
Pp. x+76; cr. 8vo; printed dark grey paper wrappers with flap folds; Faber and Faber, London, 2011. Paperback edition, second impression. *First published in 2006. More
Pp. 56; demy 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt; dust wrapper, back panel slightly soiled; Faber and Faber Ltd, London, 1969. First edition. Brandes & Durkan A5a. *Heaney's second major collection of poetry, following Death of a Naturalist (1966). More
Pp. [viii]+44; cr. 8vo; printed pale blue stiff paper wrappers with flap folds, the lower wrapper slightly marked, backstrip faded; Faber and Faber, London, 1972[201-?]. Seventeenth impression thus. [Reprint of Brandes & Durkan A5c]. *Heaney's second major collection of poetry, originally published in 1969. More
Pp. [ii]+x+98; demy 8vo; qr. light brown paper, spine lettered in gilt, pale green papered boards; dust wrapper; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2001. First U.S. edition. Brandes & Durkan A75d. More
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Pp. 66, notes; demy 8vo; brown cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, two tiny spots to boards; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed and split, backstrip faintly browned; edges of leaves slightly foxed; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1979. First U.S. edition. Brandes & Durkan A20c. *The U.K. edition..... More
Pp. 64; demy 8vo; brown boards, spine lettered in gilt, the upper board faintly marked, fore-corners of lower board a trifle bruised; dust wrapper, edges a trifle creased, backstrip faded; Faber and Faber, London, 1979. First edition. Brandes & Durkan A20a. *Heaney's sixth collection of poetry. More
Pp. [x]+64(last blank); cr. 8vo; printed green stiff paper wrappers with flap folds; Faber and Faber, London, 2001[201-?]. Seventeenth impression thus. [Reprint of Brandes & Durkan A20b]. *First published in 1979. More
Pp. [x]+52(last blank); post 8vo; red boards, spine lettered in silver; dust wrapper; text block browned (as often); Faber and Faber, London, 1987. First edition. Brandes & Durkan A41a. More
Pp. [x]+54; cr. 8vo; printed dark grey paper wrappers with flap folds; Faber and Faber, London, 2006. Reset edition. [Reprint of Barnes & Durkan A41b]. *First published in 1987. More
Pp. [iv]+18+[2](blank); demy 8vo; printed green stiff paper wrappers, stapled, edges a trifle rubbed; minor production (trimming) fault to bottom fore-corner of title page; University of Liverpool, [Liverpool, 1980]. First edition. Brandes & Durkan A24. *The lecture was delivered in 1978, and published in December 1980. More
Pp. 74(last blank); demy 8vo; blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, backstrip and edges of front panel slightly faded (as often); upper endpapers browned, as usual; Faber and Faber Ltd, London, 1975. First edition. Brandes & Durkan A12a. *Heaney's fourth collection of poetry, and his first to deal..... More
Pp. x+228; demy 8vo; green papered boards, lettered and decorated in gilt, the spine blocked in black, top fore-corners of boards a trifle bruised; dust wrapper, faintly soiled, edges slightly creased and split, the backstrip lightly browned; endpapers faintly offset; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1980. First U.S. edition..... More
Pp. [ii]+20+[2](blank); demy 8vo; printed pale blue stiff paper wrappers, stapled; Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1990. First edition. Brandes & Durkan A47. *Text of a lecture delivered on 24 October 1989. More
[Broadside]. Linoleum block by Carol Wehrmann. Typography by Eileen Walsh. A poem of 13 two-line stanzas, illustrated in green, the title and text printed in black; 43 x 28.5 cm., printed on thin greenish-tan paper; glazed and within a metal frame; Scripps College Press, Claremont, California, 1982. First edition, limited..... More
Pp. viii+72(last blank); cr. 8vo; printed stiff yellow paper wrappers with flap folds, fore-corners a trifle rubbed, backstrip slightly faded; Faber and Faber, London, 2001. Fourteenth impression. [Reprint of Brandes & Durkan A65]. *First published in 1996, this was Heaney's first book of poems after he was awarded the Nobel..... More
Pp. 124(last blank); demy 8vo; qr. green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, buff papered boards, the lower board faintly soiled; dust wrapper, backstrip a trifle faded; Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 1985. First U.S. edition. Brandes & Durkan A36c. More
Pp. 124(last blank), notes; cr. 8vo; printed stiff pale green paper wrappers with flap folds, the backstrip faintly faded; Faber and Faber, London, 1984 [probably c. 2000]. Fifteenth impression. [Reprint of Brandes & Durkan A36]. The date on the title page verso is that of the first edition. More