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‘The Haw Lantern’, FIRST USA LIMITED EDITION, 46/250,
Farrar Strauss & Giroux New York 1987, in special bind-
ing and slipcase, signed by Seamus Heaney; together
with Haw Lantern, FIRST EDITION, 1987, Faber & Faber
London, in dust wrapper. (2)
€ 450 - 550
‘Four Poets for Saint Magnus’, FIRST LIM-
ITED EDITION, 58/100, Stromness Or-
kney The Breckness Press 1987, in slip-
case, quarter bound with vellum, signed
by all contributors (4): Seamus Heaney,
Ted Hughes, George MacKay Brown and
Christopher Fry.
€ 300 - 400
A collection of five books comprising Cred-
iting Poetry, FIRST EDITION, The Nobel
Foundation 1996; ‘The Burial at Thebes’,
FIRST USA EDITION, Farrar, Straus & Gi-
roux 2004, hardback; ‘District and Circle’,
FIRST USA EDITION, Farrar, Straus & Gir-
oux 2006, hardback; ‘Human Chain’, FIRST
USA EDITION, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
2010, hardback; ‘The Haw Lantern’, FIRST
USA EDITION, 1987, Farrar, Straus & Gir-
oux 2010. (5)
€ 150 - 250
‘The Government of the Tongue’, FIRST EDITION,
Faber & Faber London 1988, in d/w; together
with ‘The Government of the Tongue’, FIRST USA
EDITION, Farrar Strauss & Giroux New York IXX,
1989. (2)
€ 180 - 250
‘The Place of Writing: Richard Ellman
lecture’, with introduction by Richard
Suchard Emory, LIMITED FIRST EDI-
TION, 60 copies (30 for sale) Atlanta
Scholars Press 1989, in d/w, numbered
and signed by author; together with
‘A Personal Selection’, August 20th to
October 24th 1982 exhibition cata-
logue Ulster Museum, FIRST EDITION,
in wrappers. (2)
€ 120 - 160
Poetry Ireland, a SPECIAL EDITION to mark
John Montague’s 60th birthday and Sea-
mus Heaney’s 50th birthday with a read-
ing at the Gate Theatre 11th June 1989,
‘Hearth Song: For Seamus Heaney’ and
‘Fosterling: For John Montague’, both po-
ems signed by the authors; together with
Poetry Ireland, Review No.25, reprinting
the poem along with ‘On Earning a Rhyme’
and several other poetry publications with
poems by Heaney, including Poetry and
Agenda.
€ 200 - 300
‘The Four Elements’, Cheltenham 1989 to 1992, FIRST
SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, 50/125 sets, The Friends of
the Cheltenham Festival of Literature 1989-1992, 1992.
A complete set of the four sets of broadsheets which
were issued annually from 1989 in conjunction with the
Cheltenham Festival of Literature, comprising sixteen
broadsheets loosely inserted in card folders with title
labels on the upper panels. Each folder contains four
broadsheets being poems by Seamus Heaney, Jennie
Joseph, Laurie Lee and Lawrence Sail. The poems are
on the theme of the four elements and there is one
poem on each element in every folder, the poets tak-
ing it in turns to write about the various elements. Each
broadsheet is one of 125 numbered copies on mould-
made paper signed by its respective author and printed
at /b The Whittington Press. The poems by Seamus He-
aney are: ‘The Fire Gaze’, ‘The Water Pause’, ‘The Earth
House’ and the ‘Sir Station’. Each year there was a dif-
ferent illustrator beginning with Hellmuth Weissenborn
and continuing with Gwenda Morgan, John O’Connor
and Miriam MacGregor. There is a wood engraving on
each broadsheet and a fifth one on the title label on
each folder. The title label wood engravings reflect all
four elements.
€ 350 - 500
‘Agenda, Seamus Heaney’: 50th Birth-
day Issue, Vol. 27 No.1 Spring 1989,
FIRST LIMITED EDITION, 39/50, edition
in wrappers and paper slipcase, por-
trait by Louis Le Brocquy, signed by
Seamus Heaney; together with Irish
Museum of Modern Art., Artists/He-
aney/Books - ‘An Exhibtion Catalogue’,
FIRST EDITION, 14 April to 14 June
2009, an exhibition to coincide with
the celebration of Seamus Heaney’s
70th birthday, wrappers;(2)
€ 120 - 160
‘The Redress of Poetry’, an inaugural
lecture delivered before the University
of Oxford on 24 October 1989 by Sea-
mus Heaney, Professor of poetry, FIRST
EDITION, Senn Clarendon Press Oxford
1990, blue wrappers, signed.
€ 60 - 80