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Seamus Heaney. Death of a Naturalist. Oxford University Press, 1966.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo8 3/4" x 5 1/2". . 57pp. Green cloth in dust jacket. Price of $3.75 on dust jacket flap. Bump to front corner cover of book which has also bumped the corner of dust jacket. Corner crease to front free endpaper. Waterstaining (discolorment) to back of jacket. Laid into book is a signed note by Polly Devlin OBE, (author and sister of Seamus' wife, Marie Heaney), gifting the book to Eric Thorndale (GAA activist). Also included is a copy of the article mentioned in Devlin's note. Seamus Heaney's first book.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Seamus Heaney. Death of a Naturalist. Oxford University Press, 1966.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition Book has some foxing on top edge, last page was bent at top of page. Dust jacket has light wear, sunning of spine. Otherwise excellent. Green cloth cover with gilt lettering on spine
Seller: tim hildebrand books, Janesville, WI, U.S.A.
Heaney, Seamus.. Death of a Naturalist.. Oxford University Press, New York, 1966.
Price: US$425.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First American Edition. First Printing. A Fine copy in dark green cloth, in a Very Good first issue dustwrapper, not price-clipped, with typical fading of the pastel pink portion, but no chips or tears. 57pp. Heaney's first collection. Nobel Prize winner. Q15758
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Heaney, Seamus. Death of a Naturalist. New York: Oxford University Press, E-349, 1966.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Oxford University Press, New York, 1966. 57 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Death of a Naturalist (1966) marked the auspicious debut of Seamus Heaney, a universally acclaimed master of modern literature. As a first book of poems, it is remarkable for its accurate perceptions and rich linguistic gifts. 'His words give us the soil-reek of Ireland, the colourful violence of his childhood on a farm in Derry. The full-blooded energy of these poems makes Death of a Naturalist the best first book of poems I've read for some time.' - C. B. Cox in the Spectator 'The power and precision of his best poems are a delight, and as a first collection Death of a Naturalist is outstanding [.] His subject is those things which are inherent or inherited. What he praises is to be praised in his own work.' - Christopher Ricks, New Statesman. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 0 pages
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Heaney, Seamus. Death of a Naturalist. Oxford University Press, NY, 1966.
Price: US$863.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo. First American edition. One of 1,000 copies comprised of sheets from the first edition with a new title page. This is Heaney's first commercially produced verse collection, preceded by Eleven Poems, a pamphlet published by Queen's University in Belfast. The future Nobel Laureate's richly cadenced lyricism is firmly established in this auspicious debut, from the famous opening lines of "Digging" onward. Few small stains to green gilt-stamped cloth, else fine, in a dust wrapper that shows the customary fading to the photo-sensitive colors on the spine and some chipping and wear to edges. (Brandes & Durkan A2.b).
Seller: Bromer Booksellers, Inc., ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Heaney, Seamus. Death of a Naturalist. Oxford University Press, 1966.
Price: US$936.76 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: 1966. First. Hardback. First US edition. A very fine copy in original dust wrapper. First edition copy. . . .
Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Ireland
Seamus Heaney. Death of a Naturalist. Oxford University Press, 1966.
Price: US$995.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine Copy In Like Price Clipped Jacket The Poet's First Book Rare In This Condition Beautiful Copy Ink Inscription.
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.
Heaney, Seamus. Death of a Naturalist. Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 1966.
Price: US$1450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition, first printing. Thin octavo ( standard size). Dj has slight wear at corners and head and heel of spine and slightly faded at dj spine and along the foredge of the dj. Small closed tear to upper dj edge right after "Death". A few spots on rear cover. Book itself would be near fine except for the exlibris of the former owner on flyleaf. SIGNED and inscribed by the author on title page. He has drawn a line through his name, and written below : Seamus Heaney / 17th March 1971. Otherwise all correct, a quite attractive copy. First collection by this great Irish poet and 1995 Nobel Prize winner.
Seller: Motte & Bailey, Booksellers, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Heaney, Seamus. Death of a Naturalist. Oxford Univ Pr American Branch, New York, 1966.
Price: US$1503.14 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo. 8vo. Gilt lettered green. Signed by the author on title page and additionally inscribed by Heaney to Greg Gatenby "For Greg in Toronto, in May 1990 , Seamus" . Gatenby, the director of the Harbourfront reading series, has his ownership signature on the front endpaper. Heaney has additionally made two corrections to the text in his hand. First American edition from the UK sheets. Dust jacket with light rubbing to the corners and spine ends, spine ends a little more nicked, and of course sunned.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
HEANEY, Seamus (1939-2013). Death of a Naturalist [Signed]. Oxford University Press, New York, 1966.
Price: US$1624.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing of the poet's critically acclaimed first commercially published work (preceded by the privately printed pamphlet, Eleven Poems, in 1965), one of only 1,000 copies (bound from sheets purchased from Faber and Faber, Heaney's London publisher). Tall, slim 8vo: 57,[1]pp. Publisher's aquamarine cloth, spine lettered in gilt; typographic dust jacket, in salmon-pink, olive and white, lettered in black and priced $3.75. Signed by Heaney on the title page. A stunning copy, tight, square and likely unread; about Fine jacket, fresh and bright, with usual fading to the fugitive salmon-pink on bottom half of spine panel but all lettering undiminished. Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, the Cholmondeley Award, the Eric Gregory Award, and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Heaney received the Nobel Prize in literature, in 1995. Brandes & Durkan A2b. A collection of 34 poems largely concerned with rural life, often in the context of childhood experiences and the formulation of adult identities and intimate relationships. It includes "Digging," "Death of a Naturalist," "Blackberry-Picking," among others. "Seamus Heaney has been, for good or ill, internationally the most prominent and the most popular Irish poet of the latter part of the twentieth century and the first part of the twenty-first. . . . His first two collections, Death of a Naturalist and Door into the Dark [a signed copy of which we also have on offer], largely written before the renewed outbreak of the so-called 'Troubles' in 1968, show Heaney alerting his audience to the violent history of colonisation on his native ground, but preoccupied also by the rhythms of life in a rural setting remembered from his childhood. He also, in a Wordsworthian manner, focuses upon the sources and resources of his own poetic voice and power." (Literary Encyclopedia) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Seamus Heaney. Death of a Naturalist. Oxford University Press, 1966.
Price: US$1950.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: green cloth, 57pp, light soil to dj, spine fade, owner's name, Nobel winning author's first book, photos available upon request
Seller: Sequoia Books, Boise, ID, U.S.A.
Heaney, Seamus.. DEATH OF A NATURALIST.. Oxford University Press: NY ., 1966.
Price: US$2012.50 + shipping
Description: 8.75 x 5.75, cloth, 57 pp, erasure on rear inside cover else nice in spine sunned slightly edge worn dw which has two shallow edge tears and a bit of yellowing. FIRST AMERICAN ED, SIGNED AND DATED (1971) BY AUTHOR.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Heaney, Seamus. DEATH OF A NATURALIST. Oxford University Press, 1966.
Price: US$2422.75 + shipping
Description: DEATH OF A NATURALIST, Oxford University Press, 1966, first edition, near fine in vg+ dust-wrapper with some light wear to the dust-wrapper spine and some fading to bottom half of same. The poets first trade and hard-cover book. INSCRIBED by the author and Nobel Laureate to fellow poet Marie Chmielewski.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Heaney, Seamus. Death of a Naturalist. Oxford University Press, New York, 1966.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First American edition. Signed by Seamus Heaney on the title page. 57 pp. Greenish blue cloth with gilt lettering. Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light toning, fading to the spine and several short closed edge-tears with light associated creasing. The Nobel Prize-winning poet's first collection, comprised of sheets from the first English edition with a new title page.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Heaney, Seamus. Death of a Naturalist. Oxford University Press, New York, 1966.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. Some fading on spine of dust jacket, tiny chips head and heel of spine, custom quarter leather clamshell box by Don Kobetsky of Chicago. Author's 1st book, inscribed by author on title page.
Seller: Lyons Fine Books, Neenah, WI, U.S.A.
Heaney, Seamus. Death of a Naturalist. Oxford University Press, New York, 1966.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 57p octavo, Owner's blindstamped embossed stamp on the title page else a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Advance review copy with review slip an publicityphotograph laidnin. Signed by Heaney on the titlepage. Enclosed in a custom slpcase with paper labels and laid into a green cloth custom slipcase
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.