The Tree Clock. Belfast: Linen Hall Library, 1990. Bound in linen spine with hand-marbled sides, title lettered in gilt to upper cover; sewn with Barbour thread and hand-bound by Sydney Aiken; housed in matching marbled slipcase. A fine bright copy. One of twenty numbered copies printed on Atlantis hand-made paper and containing a poem in holograph. This copy number 9 with poem titled "The Point" in the Author s hand. (Additionally with presentation inscription by Heaney to the title-page & signed by the binder on the colophon page)
Published by Linen Hall Library, 1990
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Ulysses Rare Books Ltd. ABA, ILAB, Dublin, IrelandUlysses Rare Books Ltd. ABA, ILAB
AbeBooks seller since January 23, 2013
Condition: Used - Near fine
US$ 8,011.57
Quantity: 1 available
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Issued on behalf of the fundraising campaign for the Linen Hall Library, the charitable body of which Seamus Heaney was a patron The Tree Clock includes seventeen poems delivered at a joint reading in aid of the Library, in 1989. This limited issue of 20 copies, each with a poem in the author s hand, is rare in commerce.
Seller Inventory # 68747
Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Tree Clock. Belfast: Linen Hall Library, 1990. Bound in linen spine with hand-marbled sides, title lettered in gilt to upper cover; sewn with Barbour thread and hand-bound by Sydney Aiken; housed in matching marbled slipcase. A fine bright copy. One of twenty numbered copies printed on Atlantis hand-made paper and containing a poem in holograph. This copy number 9 with poem titled "The Point" in the Author s hand. (Additionally with presentation inscription by Heaney to the title-page & signed by the binder on the colophon page)
- Author
- Heaney, Seamus
- Publisher
- Linen Hall Library
- Publication year
- 1990
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- Special Edition
Ulysses Rare Books Ltd. ABA, ILAB
Dublin, Ireland
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We specialise in books of Irish interest with a particular emphasis on 20th century Irish literature. Together with our general stock, we offer an unrivalled selection of rare books by renowned authors such as Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, W.B. Yeats and Samuel Beckett. In addition, we stock a wide variety of books on Irish History and Topography from the 17th Century to the recent past.
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Ulysses Rare Books Ltd. ABA, ILAB
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