Element by Heaney Mahon (9 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. Very slight bumping at edges. Front endpage portraits of authors have slightly faded the inside of the cover. Else clean. Silver covers have slight superficial wear. Stapled binding sound.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. A selection of poems by these two poets in conjunction with a series of joint readings in various Irish cities in May 1977. Just About Fine in silver stapled wrappers printed in maroon. Unpaginated. Eleven poems by Heaney, fourteen by Mahon, with brief Bios for each. Q10655.…

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Square octavo. [22]pp. Metallic silver wrappers lightly rubbed and a bit of offsetting inside the cover from portraits, both as usual, a near fine copy. Prints 12 poems by Heaney and 14 poems by Mahon. Brandes & Durkan B29.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 23x19cm 20pp. Publisher's glossy silver and purple softcovers, bound with two staples, three illustrations. Mild scuffing and rubbing to covers, light creasing and handling. Staples bright. Some toning to perimeter edges.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Signed. First Edition. Signed and dated by both authors (Heaney: 4.11.87; Mahon: 9/2/88). First edition. Pictures available upon request. Mild edgewear. Moderate yellowing to page edges, text pages clean. Moderate superficial wear to silver mylar cover. Slight warping. Binding secure. …

Condition: V.G. First. p.p. 20. Original silver wrappers. Quarto.

First Edition. [Irish poetry] FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Pamphlet (23 x 19cm), pp.[20]. Publisher's glossy silver and purple softcovers, bound with two staples. With three illustrations. Lilac endpapers, the preliminary one showing stylised drawings of Heaney and Mahon. Internally bright and clean. Some creasing to rear endpaper. Mild scuffing and rubbing to covers, rear with light creasing and handling. Very good. This booklet accompanies a performance programme held by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland between the 23rd to the 29th of May, 1977. Their thesis behind the partnering of Heaney and Mahon is that both poets refer to the elements in their work; they charge Heaney with the realms of water and earth while Mahon is fire and air - thus perfect complements to each other's work. …

FIRST EDITION, pp. [22], 4to, original silver wrappers, slight creasing at extremities, very good. Signed by Seamus Heaney, at the head of his portrait on the flyleaf. (Brandes & Durkan B29).

Staplebound. Condition: Near fine. First Edition. Square large octavo, unpaginated (about 25pp.), illustrated. Near fine in the publisher's silver glossy stapled wraps, printed in purple. Mild, even rubbing to wraps, and a few faint creases to spine; still sound and fresh. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by both Heaney and Mahon on the first leaf above their portraits. Heaney's inscription dates from the public reading that he and Mahon gave in Belfast at the beginning of their brief tour of Northern Ireland. It reads: "For Peggy + Joe Spears, Seamus Heaney, May 23, 1977." Mahon's inscription is not dated, and reads: "For John M. [H?] il miglior fabbro. Derek M." The previous bookseller who owned this item has a notation that suggests that the subject is John Montague. The seriousness of the inscription suggests that this may be right. The Italian quotation means "the better craftsman," and was famously used by T. S. Eliot in his dedication of "The Waste Land" to Ezra Pound.…