Lot 288
Heaney, Seamus
Collection of works, all signed
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 07 February 2024 from 10:00 GMT
Description
Unless otherwise stated, all first trade editions, first impressions, published by Faber and Faber, 8vo, original boards, with the dust jackets, with Seamus Heaney's signature on the title-page in blue or black ink. Titles comprise:
Beowulf, 1999 (ownership inscription to front free endpaper, dust jacket price-clipped);
The Testament of Cresseid. London: Enitharmon Editions, 2004. Limited edition, one of 350 copies signed by Heaney and illustrator Hughie O'Donoghue on the limitation leaf, large 4to, original green cloth;
Electric Light, 2001. First edition, deluxe issue, one of 300 copies specially bound and signed by Heaney, original cloth-backed boards, slipcase;
Hailstones. Dublin: Gallery Press, 1984. First edition, deluxe issue, one of 250 copies bound in cloth and signed by Heaney (this copy inscribed 'for Jim, Happy Christmas! Seamus') (dust jacket front panel sunned);
North, 1975. First edition, paperback issue, signed 'Seamus Heaney, 8.ix.'98' on initial blank (wrappers slightly rubbed and marked);
Field Work, 1979. First edition, paperback issue, with Heaney's inscription reading 'inscribed for Margaret Herbert's friend, Slainte gus saol, Seamus Heaney, December 1979' on the initial blank, spine sunned, wrappers somewhat creased and marked;
Sweeney Astray. A Version from the Irish. Derry: Field Day, 1983. Original cloth;
Station Island, 1984;
The Haw Lantern, 1987 (textblock toned);
The Redress of Poetry. Oxford Lectures, 1995;
The Spirit Level, 1996;
Opened Ground. Poems 1966-1996, 1998;
Hallaig. Somhairle MacGill-Eain. Translated by Seamus Heaney. [No place:] Urras Shomhairle, the Sorley MacLean Trust, 2002. One of 200 copies, single unsigned gathering of 4 leaves, original card wrappers (wrappers faded, front wrapper with pen-mark to recto and Edinburgh International Book Festival ticket mounted to verso);
The Burial at Thebes. Sophocles' Antigone, translated by Seamus Heaney, 2004;
District and Circle, 2006;
Human Chain, 2010;
and 7 paperback reprints, including Beowulf, all signed by Heaney
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