Book Description

First edition. 8vo., pp.57, [i]. MS annotations and underlining in both pen and pencil, including notes to pp.9-10, 14-16, 28, 31-33, 40, 56; a small tick or asterisk to the top corner of most pages. Green cloth, gilt title to spine, lightly faded strip across bottom edge of upper board, very good. Dust jacket lightly sunned at spine and narrow strip along bottom edge, inner corners trimmed with the loss of a few letters, a little underlining to author biography on flyleaf, still very good overall.. An array of newspaper clippings including both reviews of Heaney’s work and appearances of the poems themselves, loosely inserted and pasted to the front endpapers. Poems include ‘Twice Shy’, ‘Rookery’, ‘Orange drums, Tyrone 1966’, ‘Undine’ and ‘Night Drive’ (with MS note, The Listener 11/4/68), ‘Victorian Guitar’, ‘Corncrake’ and ‘Bogland’ (The Listener, 2/11/67), ‘Frogman’, ‘Strange Fruits’. Various annotations, plus a not-very-legible ownership inscription, possibly T. or D. Adams, to ffep. (Actually Tom Adams, a secondary school teacher in Southfields, London in the later part of the last century, devoted book collector and prolific annotator and attacher of related printed material to the books he collected.)
Dealer Notes
Heaney’s first commercial collection for a major publisher (following his Eleven Poems published in November 1965 for the Queen's University Festival).
Author Heaney, Seamus:
Date 1966.
Publisher London: Faber and Faber,

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