Heaney Contributes (28 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Book condition: VG with light bumps to corners; small abrasion to last page + inside cover. First appearance of Seamus Heaney's "The Little Canticles of Asturias" (revised version later appeared in "Electric Light"). A bright copy.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Book condition: Good/VG with light reading/handling wear; fading to spine. 160 pages. Includes "Frontiers of Writing" by Seamus Heaney, "Anglings and Aimings in Seamus Heaney's 'Seeing Things'", "Form and Ideology in the Anglo-Irish Novel", etc. A bright copy.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Book condition: VG with small faint splash marks to front cover; tiny spot to contents page; light bumps and dents. "40th Anniversary Number". 98 pages. Includes first publication of Seamus Heaney poem "Shelf Life". A bright copy.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Book condition: VG with slight bump to corners. 80 pages. Includes first publication of Seamus Heaney poem "In Memoriam Francis Ledwidge". A bright copy.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Book condition: VG with three small brown marks to covers; two tiny spots to contents page; very minor dents. 40 pages. Includes first publication of Seamus Heaney poem "An Ulster Twilight". A bright copy.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Book condition: ood/VG with page block slightly sprung from covers (but still tightly bound); back cover has a small crease to corner plus some grubby marks; some very light spotting. 70 pages. Cover design by Colin Middleton. Includes first publication of Seamus Heaney poem "The Tollund Man".

Original Stapled Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Near fine copy of Phoenix 3 featuring poems by Heaney, Michael Longley et al. Heaney contributes Shoreline. Minimal shelfwear evident but no chips or tears.

Original Stapled Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Very good copy of Phoenix 3 featuring poems by Heaney, Mahon, Montague et al. Heaney contributes At Ardboe Point. Some soiling to white covers and some marks to text but no chips or tears.

Original Stapled Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Near fine copy of Phoenix 3 featuring poems by Heaney, Michael Longley et al. Heaney contributes Shoreline. Minimal shelfwear evident but no chips or tears.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Book condition; Good with some blotching to the contents page; slight bump to corners; slight fade to spine. 48 pages. includes first publication of Seamus Heaney poem "Last Summer". A bright copy.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Condition: VG with the pages still very white and supple; a few creases; broadsheet folded twice. 12 pages. The "Weekend" supplement to the Irish Times of February 2nd 1991. Includes first publication of Seamus Heaney poems "Field Of Vision" and "Seeing Things". An attractive copy.

First edition, first impression; 8vo; original pictorial boards. A near-fine copy. Bit of a schlocky kind of publication, but our Seamus is included, by way of the reprinting of The Forge from Door Into the Dark. Issued without dust jacket. Brandes & Durkan B134.

Original Stapled Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Near fine copy of Phoenix 3 featuring poems by Heaney, Tony Harrison, Amis, Glyn Hughes Heaney contributes The Plantation. Minimal shelfwear evident but no chips or tears.

Final edition of poetry magazine, with poems from Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Roy Fuller, Fleur Adcock, Julian Symons and Tony Harrison. Fine pamphlet.

First edition, first impression; 8vo; original wrappers. A few minor rubs and creases but a nice copy. Squarings is a very important middle period sequence - all manifestations of it are worthy of attention. Brandes & Durkan C558.

First edition. Quarto. 43 pages. Wrappers. Printed at the Westerham Press on handmade paper. Includes "Servant Boy" by Seamus Heaney as well as poems by William Plomer, Dannie Abse, D.J. Enright, Tony Harrison, Leslie Norris and others. One of 500 numbered copies printed by the Westerham Press on handmade paper.Covers slightly nicked and creased at overlapping edges. Very good indeed.

First edition. Quarto. Unpaginated. Cloth-backed patterned boards. Top edge gilt. One of 350 numbered copies. Seamus Heaney contributes ''A Sofa in the Forties'', a two page poem. The other contributors are Adrian Mitchell, U.A. Fanthorpe, D.J. Enright, Duncan Forbes, Ted Hughes, Michael Horovitz, Jenny Joseph, John Fuller, Laurie Lee, Peter Levi, P.J. Kavanagh, Brian Patten, Jon Stallworthy, Jon Silkin, Charles Tomlinson and Lawrence Sail, all of whom contribute a poem each. Michael Foot writes a three page piece on Alan Hancox. Title-page wood engravings by Miriam Macgregor. Five-page Introduction by Melvyn Bragg.Fine. Not issued in dustwrapper.

Octavo. 96 pages. Wrappers. Includes Seamus Heaney's poem about the death of his younger brother ''Mid-Term Break'', this being one of his very early publications. It later appeared in the collection Death of a Naturalist (1966) . Among the other contributors are Benedict Kiely, Michael Harnett, John Broderick et al. This magazine ran for a total of eighteen issues.Spine slightly darkened. Very good indeed.

First edition, first printing. Issue No. 13, May 1969. Seamus Heaney contributes In An Airport Coach. Other contributors include Gavin Ewart, John McGahern and Paul Muldoon. Near fine pamphlet.

First edition. Octavo. Unpaginated. One of 150 copies. Wrappers lettered in gilt. Designed by John Kristensen, set in Hermann Zapf's Palatino and Michelangelo types, and printed at the Firefly Press, Somerville, Mass. Includes Heaney's poem "A Wave from the Distance" as well as contributions from Kay Boyle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Angelica Garnett, William Heyen, Barbara Kingsolver, Maxine Kumin, Marge Piercy, Stephen Spender, William Stafford, Anne Tyler, Richard Wilbur and many others. Fine.

First edition, first impression, signed by Heaney; large 8vo; original wrappers. A fine copy. Signed by Heaney at his contribution. Loosely inserted is a letter from Peter Fallon to the previous owners despatching this and several other item which Heaney had graciously signed for them. It read, in part, '.there is de Gids (from Holland). Seamus himself hadn't seen some of these.' Neither had I!

Octavo. pp 164, [6] adverts. Card wrappers. ''Special transatlantic issue'' containing mainly Irish writers. Seamus Heaney contributes a six-page section from 'Sweeney Astray'.Signed and dated (May '81) by Seamus Heaney on the half-title page.Fine.

First edition. 4to., original wrappers. Birmingham, Dublin, Ireland of the Welcomes. Signed by the author at his contribution, the poem 'Leavings'. A near fine copy, slightly marked on the inner cover. Brandes & Durkan C311.

First edition. 8vo., original wrappers. [New York], Irish American Historical Society. A fine copy.

SOLE EDITION, pp [ii], 18, crown 8vo, original stapled wrappers, near fine condition. A scarce booklet offering tributes to the literary scholar, Director of Irish Studies at Queens College. (Brandes & Durkan B108).

First edition. Small 8vo., original blue simulated leather, lettered in gilt. Draperstown, Ballinascreen Historical Society. Heaney contributes a warm introduction of some 550 words, concluding: "I am back on the range of the bridge, leaning over to wath the trout facing upstream towards Moyola Park, lost to the world, but at the same time at home forever in the particular corner of it". Number 70 of 100 numbered copies. A fine copy. Brandes & Durkan B193b.

First edition. Octavo. 189 pages. Interviews with Douglas Dunn, Thom Gunn, Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill, Thomas Kinsella, Philip Larkin, Paul Muldoon, Richard Murphy, Tom Paulin and Craig Raine.Signed by Seamus Heaney at the head of his interview. Also signed by Tom Paulin at the head of his. Laid in are tickets to readings at the University of East Anglia by both authors.Small gift inscription on front free endpaper. Head of spine a little bruised. Very good indeed in very good indeed dustwrapper creased at edges and with a faint stain on the upper panel.

First edition. Folio. . Four sheets, measuring 10m 1/2 by 15 inches, preserved in a laid paper folder bearing a title-label. The poems, each of them illustrated with a colour wood-engraving by Helmuth Weissenborn and printed on mould-made paper, are by Seamus Heaney ("The Fire Gaze"), Laurie Lee ("The Three Winds"), Jenny Joseph ("First Spring Dawn") and Lawrence Sail ("Water".) One of 125 numbered sets, each poem being signed by the respective author.Fine in fine folder.