Heaney Introduces (8 results)

Original French Flaps. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Fine first printing in original french flaps as issued. This is the correct first printing with full number string, not to be confused with the later hardback reprint issued in 2007. Yeats' poems selected by Heaney with a 14 page introduction.

Original French Flaps. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Fine first printing in original french flaps as issued. This is the correct first printing with full number string, not to be confused with the later hardback reprint issued in 2007. Yeats' poems selected by Heaney with a 14 page introduction.

Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Near fine first printing of this edition of Thomson's classic collection. 8pp introduction by Heaney. Unread copy with just a touch of shelfwear evident but a clean, tight book. Uncommon.

First edition. Octavo. Unpaginated [32 pages]. Plain green wrappers in dustwrapper. The cycle was first performed by English National Opera at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, on 15th October 1999. Loosely inserted is the publishers' prospectus (single sheet, folded).Very near fine.

First edition. 8vo., original grey cloth, dust jacket. Belfast, Netherlea. A fine copy in dust jacket.

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.

First edition. Foreword by Ted Hickey. Octavo. Glossy pictorial card wrappers. Exhibition catalogue. Two page Introduction by Seamus Heaney, who also comments on the thirty-seven exhibits he selects from the Ulster Museum's holdings for this exhibition. Numerous black and white reproductions. On the upper cover Edward McGuire's celebrated portrait of Seamus Heaney is reproduced in colour.Signed by Seamus Heaney on the title-page.A bit of light rubbing to edges of covers. Near fine.

First edition. 4to., original red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine over black. Dublin, The Lilliput Press. Number 89 of 100 specially bound, numbered copies signed by the author and Heaney. Brandes and Durkan B171. A fine copy in black slipcase.