Sweeney's Flight. Based on the revised text of Sweeney Astray. Photographs by Rachel Giese. With the complete revised text of 'Sweeney Astray'.

Heaney, Seamus Giese, Rachel [Photographer]

Published by London: Faber and Faber, 1992

About this Item

Medium 4to, [12], 117 p. 35 full-page photographs. Original green linen cloth, lettered gilt. An as new copy complete with a very fine price intact dust jacket with one 2mm nick in the lower panel bottom edge. The Rachel Giese pictures of the Northern Irish landscape cover the boundaries of Mad Sweeney's kingdom of Dalriada. Seamus Heaney has matched the photographs with extracts and quotations from his original Sweeney Astray and has revised many of his stanzas. The entire new text is included in the second part of the book. First edition, revised with photographs. Brandes & Durkan, A34h.

Seller Inventory # 22423

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sweeney's Flight. Based on the revised text of Sweeney Astray. Photographs by Rachel Giese. With the complete revised text of 'Sweeney Astray'.
• Publisher: London: Faber and Faber
• Publication Date: 1992
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included