Room Rhyme by Heaney Seamus (16 results)

First Edition, First Printing. -- 'Greatest Minds Lecture' delivered at the Celebration of Graduation at the University of Dundee, July 2003. Images by Brigid Collins. Invitation card is laid in.-- Hardcover, glossy printed boards. Condition: fine, no jacket issued. ISBN 09011396192.

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Near Fine. Collins, Brigid (illustrator). First Edition. Near fine unread condition hardback. Binding very VERY tight. Pages beginning to tone. Pictorial coverboards scuffed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Brigid Collins (Images) (illustrator). Boards have rubbing and a few scattered scratches. Otherwise text block is clean and unmarked in very good condition. Unpaginated.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Minus. Very good minus, lacking dust jacket, as issued. Binding is good. Cover has some shelfwear, rubbing, and scuffing. Price and ISBN stickers on rear cover. Gap in gutter between first pages and endpaper seems intentional by printer.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: None. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. Greatest Minds Lecture delivered at the celebration on graduation at the University of Dendee, July 2003. Promotional post card laid-in. No dust jacket as issued. Some shelf wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Illustrated by Brigid Collings. Slim oblong octavo. Fine in pictorial boards with a tiny bit of scuffing. With an invitation to the launch of the exhibition accompanying Heaney's visit to Dundee laid in.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1st printing. Fine clean copy. No inscriptions. No dust jacket, as issued.

'Greatest Minds Lecture' delivered at the Celebration of Graduation at the University of Dundee, July 2003. Images by Brigid Collins. -- Laid in are an invitation card. This item also includes a printed letter/email exchange between Collins and Heaney. -- Hardcover, printed boards, 8x8 inches. Condition: fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Book condition: Fine. No dustjacket, as issued. First Edition. A bright copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. HEANEY, Seamus. Room to Rhyme. Dundee: University of Dundee 2004. Illustrated by Brigid Collins. Signed by the author. With loose A4 information sheet, invitation to launch and book publicity sheet laid in. The information sheet contains the contents of an exchange of letters between Heaney and Collins in which Heaney writes: '. . . you have made the book one of the most desirable in which words of mine have appeared . . .'. Original Illustrated boards. Fine copy, as issued. Note: An uncommon Heaney title, especially with the inserts which were only available with copies sold on the evening of the book launch at the University. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Very good condition with some wear along spine edge, minor marks.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Square octavo. [32]pp. Stapled red pictorial wrappers printed in black. Illustrated with photographic reproductions of the contributors. Small stain inside front cover else a just about fine copy. Housed in a custom green cloth clamshell case titled in gilt. Signed by Seamus Heaney, Longley, and on the photographic frontispiece. The poets each contribute nine poems and Hammond contributes nine songs. Heaney contributes three poems that are first appearances and not previously collected elsewhere: "Requiem for the Croppies," Elegy for a Still-Born Child," and "Last Look." Very scarce.

A fine copy.

No binding. Condition: Near fine. Inscribed by Heaney. A holiday greeting, signed from Heaney and his wife, Marie Devlin, to "Rosemary." Features the opening lines from a mummers' play performed by Country Derry Christmas Rhymers in the early 1940s; Heaney borrowed the lines for his own "Great Minds Lecture," entitled "Room to Rhyme," delivered at the 2003 University of Dundee graduation. Mild edge rubbing, slight soiling to rear, else near fine.

Condition: V.G. First. Signed by all with humorous comments - Quarto p.p. 32. Photographs of three authors, separately and together. Stiff pictorial wrappers. Extremely rare copy signed by the three contributors with their amusing comments in bubble format. The three each contributed nine pieces, poems from the two poets and songs from the singer. Five of Heaney's poems were previously unpublished and three of these were included in his book 'Door into the Dark', 1969. In May 1968 the Arts Council invited Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley and David Hammond to visit a number of towns in Northern Ireland with a programme which, genuflecting to tradition, toured under the title 'Room to Rhyme'. To find a common denominator the two poets and the ballad collector sought a number of themes commonly treated by each in song and verse. Since the anthology and the comparisons to be made within each theme (symbolized on the front cover by Ralph Dobson) retain interest and vitality apart from the tour, the Council decided to publish this booklet in the hope that it will give greater currency to the vision and verse of two contemporary Irish writers and increase familiarity with the oral tradition to which the bulk of the ballads belong" (preface).

First edition, first impression, of this early collection grouping poems by Heaney and Longley, alongside folk ballads collected by David Hammond. In addition to four selections from Death of a Naturalist (1966), including the famous "Digging", Room to Rhyme entails the first book appearance of five other Heaney poems. Uncommon, with ten copies listed on WorldCat. Brandes & Durkan B4. Quarto. Photographic portraits and woodcut illustrations in the text. Original printed wrappers. Light soiling to rear cover and in a couple of minor instances to contents, else a very good copy.