Seeing Things by Heaney, Signed (8 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Inscribed by Heaney on the front endpaper. A fine softcover copy. See my photos of the book you will receive, not stock photos. All books are wrapped in bubble wrap and shipped in a cardboard box. USPS tracking provided. #19. Inscribed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Inscribed copy of the large format paperback edition of this later collection of poems by Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney. Inscribed by Seamus Heaney to a previous owner on the front endpaper. The inscription is dated by Heney. 107 pages. First Printing of this edition. Has a light corner crease at the bottom of the back cover, otherwise no sign of previous use. Signed by Author(s).

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. First edition. Crown 8vo. Pp. [x], 113. Publisher's pale grey cloth, lettered in gilt to spine; tan endpapers. Dustwrapper features a detail from the Gundestrup Cauldron to cover. Signed and dated by Heaney to half title. A hint of rubbing to spine tips, else a complete dustwrapper, unlike the usual wear of Faber jackets of the period. A Fine/Fine copy. Winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature in recognition of his poetry's 'combination of lyrical beauty and ethical depth which exalt everyday miracles and the living past'. In his acceptance speech to the Swedish Academy of Letters, published as Crediting Poetry (1995), Heaney signified his turn away from the "Heaviness of being," the poems written in response to "The Troubles," as referred to in "Fosterling," (p. 50) toward a visionary imagination that "credit[s] marvels". When the book first appeared in 1991, some readers formerly admiring of Heaney's unflinching representation of sectarian violence, were dismayed with his embrace of the visionary or ethereal. Written in Glanmore, the cottage in Co. Wicklow, where the poet settled in 1972, after the turbulence of Belfast, and where his key early works North (1975), and Field Work (1979), were also composed. "[A] new masterwork emerge[s] and take[s] its permanent place in our literature." -John Carey, The Sunday Times. [Brandes & Durkan A50a].

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition, first printing inscribed to the title page, "To Joan and Garret Fitzgerald with the highest regard - 'only pure words and deeds secure the house.,' (p.35), Seamus Heaney, July 1991". A wonderful presentation copy inscribed in the year of publication to the former two term Taoiseach of Ireland and his wife. Heaney and Fitzgerald were two of the primary contributors to a TV production in 1991, 'One Fond Embrace', celebrating Ireland's rich literary tradition as Dublin took over from Glasgow as European City of Culture. A Fine copy in a Near Fine unclipped d/w (the wrapper of this title is rarely seen in such good condition). Inscribed by Author(s).

Second Edition. Octavo. 113 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Signed and beautifully inscribed: "To Christian Tischhauser - with admiration for your commitment to The West Cork Music Festival - Seamus Heaney - 26 June 1996". Seeing Things is the eighth poetry collection by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. It was published in 1991. Heaney draws inspiration from the visions of afterlife in Virgil and Dante Alighieri in order to come to terms with the death of his father, Patrick, in 1986. The title, Seeing Things, refers both to the solid, fluctuating world of objects and to a haunted, hallucinatory realm of the imagination. Heaney has been recorded reading this collection on the Seamus Heaney Collected Poems album. (Wikipedia) Sprache: english.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE. Number 160 of 250 signed and numbered copies. Dedicated to Derek Mahon. Octavo. Rust paper-covered boards with black cloth backstrip, white label lettered in rust to spine. Housed in matching rust paper-covered slipcase with black top and bottom. Lettering on spine label slightly faded, otherwise a fine copy. [Brandes & Durkan A50c].

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Small demy8vo, [x], 113, [1] p. Original quarter black cloth, rust boards, paper label. An as new copy in a matching as new slipcase. Limited edition, Number 56 of 250 copies. Presentation and the wonderful dated inscription appears below Heaney's signature on the Limitation page. [Brandes & Durkan A50]. Inscribed by Author(s).

First edition. Hardbound issue. Octavo. pp [viii], 113. Thirty-seven poems. Presentation copy from the author, inscribed by him on the front free endpaper: 'for Rosemary with love - helping ''Time to be dazzled and the heat to lighten'' (p.50) - Seamus - 2 June 1991'. The page reference is to the poem ''Fosterling'' in which the quotation is taken from the last two lines. The recipient is Rosemary Goad who was the first female director at Faber and Faber. She was also, as can be seen from the inscription, a friend of Heaney who wrote a poem for her leaving party. Fine in very good dustwrapper faded at the spine and a bit rubbed at the edges.