signed first edition hardcover
1973 · New York
by HEANEY, Seamus
New York: Oxford University Press, 1973. First. hardcover. fine/fine. 80pp., blue cloth, d.w. New York: Oxford University Press, (1973). First American Edition, Fine. The scarce American edition of which only 500 were printed. Heaney autographed the book on the title page, and has also written out on the half-title, 4 lines beginning "My granny was Doherty/ She was the stuff-" in presentation "with good echoes from Tara". Another hand, signed "David" has written out 8 lines from "The Orange Lilly" on a facing flyleaf.
(Inventory #: 265522)