SWEENEY ASTRAY; A Version From The Irish
Derry: Field Day Theatre Company, 1983. First edition. Paperback. First printing simultaneously published: Trade Paper issue in illustrated wraps. Minor crease else fine and tight.
Derry: Field Day Theatre Company, 1983. First edition. Paperback. First printing simultaneously published: Trade Paper issue in illustrated wraps. Minor crease else fine and tight.
Dublin: Abbey Theatre, 2004. First Edition. Paperback. Illustrated wrappers; 4to. [40 pp.] Program for the Abbey Theatre production of Heaney's translation of the play. Players biographies, cast etc. with notes (three pages) by SH and a photo of the cast and crew with him. Not to be confused with the.....
London: Faber & Faber, 2000. First edition thus. Paperback. First trade paperback printing; published in the year following hardcover. Illustrated wraps. Small 8vo. 106 pp. Near fine unread copy.
London: Faber & Faber, 1999. First edition thus. Hardcover. Dark blue boards in dust jacket; small 8vo. 106 pp. Fine unread copy in a lightly wrinkled at edges near fine dust jacket.. Brandes & Durkan A72.
N.P. The Recorder, 1998. First Edition. Paperback. Stapled printed wrappers; 8vo. 31 pp. A Supplement to THE RECORDER: The Journal of the American Irish Historical Society; Vol. 11, No.2. Contributions from Conor Cruise O'Brien, Stanley Crouch, Thomas Flanagan and others and a poem of 28 lines here first published by.....
Knockeven, Co. Clare: Salmon Poetry, 1996. First edition. Paperback. IlIustrated wraps; small 8vo. Inscribed and signed by the poet in the year of publication. Fourth volume of poetry from this Galway poet. Front wrap creased; otherwise a crisp and bright and easily very good copy.
London: Heinemann, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 56 pp. Inscribed: "For Isabel/ With much love/ from Patrick"; additionally signed in full on title page. Poet's first book. Moderate foxing on endpapers and edges; in a heavily foxed worn at edges dust jacket (in removable protective.....
Dublin: Peppercanister, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Peppercanister 8: One of 75 copies in black cloth, spine gilt stamped; 8vo. Inscribed and signed in full by the poet to Rev. William Gormley an early subscriber to the press. Beautifully printed by the Dolmen Press. Fine in like dust jacket (in removable.....
Dublin: Peppercanister, 1978. First edition. Hardcover (issued without a dust jacket). Peppercanister 7: Number 12 of 50 copies (40 for sale) bound in Basil (full black Morocco, t.e.g.; spine gilt stamped, marbled end papers), signed by the poet with an additional poem in manuscript bound in. 8vo. Beautifully printed by.....
Dublin: Peppercanister, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Peppercanister 6: One of 50 copies in green cloth, spine gilt stamped; 8vo. Inscribed and signed in full by the poet to Rev. William Gormley an early subscriber to the press. Beautifully printed by the Dolmen Press. Fine in like vellum unprinted dust jacket.....
New York: Norton, 2013. First U.S. Edition. Paperback. 69 pp. Trade paperback issue signed by the poet on the title page. Poet's third volume of poems. Fine unread copy.
New York: Norton, 2013. First U.S. Edition. Paperback. 69 pp. Trade paperback issue of the poet's third volume of poems. Near fine unread copy.
New York: Norton, 2006. First U.S. Edition. Paperback. Trade paperback issue signed by the poet on the title page. Poet's first volume of poems. Fine unread copy.
Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Blue coth in dust jacket; small 8vo. Inscribed and signed in full in marker: " For Mark and Francis with affection" in Dublin in 1968. Offsetting from jacket on endpapers, else fine in an evenly faded lightly worn at folds still near fine.....
Galway: Arlen House, 2003. First Edition. Paperback. Illustrated wrappers; 8vo. `02 pp. Signed by the poet on the copyrights page adding "im" to the "moral rights of the author have been asserted". Very near fine copy of a scarce book signed, by the rather cheeky Irish author, who long taught.....
Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. First Dublin (w/out Dufour printed on Title page) edition. Original cloth-backed boards in dust jacket; small 8vo. First printing of the poet's first book of poems, preceded by an address on Joyce. Inscribed: "This copy is for Mr. Silliman / James Liddy" About.....
Mill Valley: Blue Falcon Books/Peregrine Press, 1998. First edition. Paperback. Stapled grey printed wrappers; 8vo. 40 pp. One of 50 copies signed and numbered by the author. Woodcut decorations by Eric Gill. Back cover blurbs by Sharon Olds, Galway Kinnell and Rosalie Moore. Precedes his first collection (which prints some.....
N.p. Urras Somhairle/ The Sorley MacLean Trust, 2002. First Edition. Paperback. Stapled green wrappers; small 8vo. [8 pp.] This is number 27 of 50 copies signed and numbered by Seamus Heaney; the total edition was 200. Original Gaelic with Heaney's translation facing. Creased, still very good. Rare. Brandes & Durkan.....
Loughcrew, Oldcastle, Co. Meath, Ireland: Gallery Press, 1992. First Edition. Paperback. Green sewn wrappers; thin 8vo. Barrie Cooke frontispiece. A chapbook with Mahon's poem, a "letter" home addressed to his children from the Yaddo in Saratoga, NY; one of 350 copies printed. Fine copy in added removable mylar covers.
Buffalo: The University Libraries SUNY Buffalo, 1988. First Thus. no binding. Single sheet folded; color illustration a quilt by Evelyn Montague opposite Montague's poem "Last Chance". One of 2000 total. Fine.
New York: Aperture, Winter 1994. First Edition. Paperback. Glossy photographic wrappers; large 4to. 80 pp. The entire issue in color and black and white devoted to Ireland. Paul Muldoon has signed at his contribution a poem on page 5, the first line beginning: "When Oinen came back/ to Ireland...". Back.....
London: Faber & Faber, 1999. First Edition. Paperback. Illustrated wrappers; small 8vo. 52 pp. Signed by the poet. The Libretto of an opera set on the Mexican Border. Fine copy, published in paper only.
Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 1991. First Edition. Paperback. Glossy illustrated wrappers; small 8vo. 46 pp. Paul Muldoon has signed at is contribution "The Briefcase"; poems by Heaney, Longley, Monatgue, Ni Chiuilleanain, Ormsby, McGuckian, Foley and Dawe round out the selection of new work. Images throughout by Noel Connor. US.....
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Black paper-covered boards in dust jacket; 8vo. 134 pp. Signed by the poet on the dedication page. Fine unread copy in like dust jacket.
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2002. First edition. Paperback. An uncorrected proof copy in tan wrappers of the Pulitzer Prize-winning volume for 2003. Signed by the poet on the title page. Lightly soiled spot on front edge else fine and tight (in removable mylar covers). A scarce proof and.....