£2,500.00

London: Faber and Faber Ltd.. 1966.

First edition. Signed "Seamus Heaney. Redlands College, 21st February 1972". 8vo. 213x135mm. pp. 57 [3bl]. Publisher's green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Original dustjacket. Jacket has slight creasing to head of spine, a small closed tear to top edge of upper cover and tiny tears to the corners. Protected by a plastic transparent cover. There is the usual fading to the pink part of the jacket but otherwise in very good condition and internally near fine. An excellent copy of Heaney's first commercially published collection (the year before a small set of poems was issued for the Queen's University Belfast Festival) which, having received almost universal acclaim, won numerous prizes and marked his arrival as one of the finest poets of the age.