Polly Devlin Ed (1 results)

Cloth. Condition: Fine. None (illustrator). First edition. A signed presentation copy of this limited edition work by Seamus Heaney and his family, inscribed to publisher Carmen Callil, and with a loosely inserted signed photograph of the Heaney family. A signed association copy of this work.A limited edition work consisting of twenty-two poems or prose pieces by members of Seamus Heaney's extended family commemorating a midsummer gathering, with the poet himself contributing half of them.One of 230 copies produced, signed 'for Carmen' by Heaney to the limitation leaf.From the library of Carmen Callil, an Australian publisher who founded Virago Press in 1973, to"publish books which celebrated women and women's lives, and which would, by so doing, spread the message of women's liberation to the whole population". Virago publish works by new and neglected female authors, publishing the works by authors such as Daphne du Maurier, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Margaret Atwood, and Angela Carter, all with a distinctivegreen spine synonymous with Virago.With Callil's bookplate loosely inserted.An additional loosely inserted photograph of the extended Heaney family is inscribed to the reverse 'Carmen: a few of the family at the feast - P (and a thank you letter)'.This is from Polly Devlin, the editor of the work, and Heaney's sister in law. In the publisher's original cloth backed marbled paper covered boards. Externally, fine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Fine. signed by author. book.