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Heaney, Seamus. North. Faber and Faber, 1975.
Price: US$11.42 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
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Seller: Goldstone Books, Llandybie, United Kingdom
Seamus Heaney. North - First Edition, Second impression. Faber and Faber, London, 1975.
Price: US$12.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book condition: VG with the usual fading around spine and top edge of front cover; two small abrasions to front cover. First edition, first reprint in the year of original publication. A bright copy.
Seller: Kirklee Books, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Seamus Heaney. North. Faber and Faber, 1975.
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Condition: New
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Seller: Monster Bookshop, Fleckney, United Kingdom
Seamus Heaney. North. Faber & Faber, 1975.
Price: US$19.25 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Printed by W & J Mackay Limited, Chatham. Spine slightly sunned. Light surface wear. Sharp, clean and unmarked. From a private collection. VG+.
Seller: Zebra Books, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Heaney, Seamus.. North. Oxford University Press, New York, 1975.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American Edition, First Printing. The first British Edition was by Faber. A Near Fine copy in pale blue wrappers, slight rubbing around spine area. 73pp. Clean copy. Nobel Prize winner. Q19114
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$38.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: PAPERBACK. LONDON : 1975. [ First published in 1975.]. Paperback. Light-blue pictorial covers. Bright, tight and clean. No owner name or internal markings. Minor wear only (spine not creased) and slightly faded. VERY GOOD. 73 pages. 8vo. **Will be well-packed for posting/shipping**. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, CHS, Cumberland, Everyman, GKC, Inklings, Keswick, Literature, MacDonald, Rarities, Theology and History. ].
Seller: Rosley Books est. 2000, WIGTON, United Kingdom
Seamus Heaney. North - Paperback First Edition, First Impression. Faber & Faber, 1975.
Price: US$44.91 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Book condition: Good/VG with fade to spine; small area of fading and some abrasions to front. Paperback First Edition, First Impression. A bright, very tight copy.
Seller: Kirklee Books, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Heaney, Seamus. North. Faber & Faber, 1975.
Price: US$48.76 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition first reprint. The spine is sunned but clearly visible,
Seller: Walled City Books, Londonderry, United Kingdom
Heaney, Seamus. North. Faber and Faber Ltd, London, 1975.
Price: US$60.13 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. 1975 reprint of paperback first edition. 73 p.p. Some wear and sunning to joints and spine, wear to edges and front cover, bumping to corners, some spotting to rear cover. Light tanning to edges of text block. Ink ownership inscription to FFEP. Offsetting to endpapers at rear. In North Seamus Heaney found a myth which allowed him to articulate a vision of Ireland - its people, history and landscape. Here the Irish experience is refracted through images drawn from different parts of the Northern European experience, and the idea of the north allows the poet to contemplate the violence on his home ground in relation to memories of the Scandinavian and English invasions which have marked Irish history so indelibly.
Seller: Minotavros Books, ABAC ILAB, Whitby, ON, Canada
Heaney, Seamus. North. Faber & Faber, 1975.
Price: US$70.62 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.55
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$96.24 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A near fine example of the second printing of the true first edition, which was published as a paperback original in the same year as the first printing. A simultaneous hardback edition was published in a small print run in 1975 alongside this paperback issue, and is considered to be Seamus Heaney's scarcest trade first edition. ***Near fine in blue printed matt card covers, with a portrait of Seamus Heaney by Edward McGuire on the back cover. The covers are virtually unblemished, with just a slight loss of colour at the top of the front cover. The blue of the spine is slightly faded as usual. With the original publisher's printed price of £1.25 net on the inside of the front cover. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions or annotations. Text clean. Pages clean. No creases or tears. The book actually fells unread. ***198mm x 128mm. 73 pages. ***With this new collection Seamus Heaney has found a myth - its people, history and landscape - and which gives the book direction, cohesion and cumulative power.' (Quote taken from the inside front cover) ***A really beautiful example of the second printing of the true first edition of Seamus Heaney's fourth poetry collection. Early printings of this fragile work are seldom found now in this beautiful condition. ***Of interest to collectors and readers of Seamus Heaney's poetry. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
HEANEY, Seamus (1939-2013). North. London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1975, 1975.
Price: US$160.41 + shipping
Description: [Poetry] FIRST PRINTING. Softcover version (issued simultaneously with the hardback). Slim octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.73; [5] blank. Publisher's typographic wrapper priced £1.25. With Poetry book Society newsletter (Summer 1975) tucked in, which includes an article written by Heaney. Some scholarly pencil annotations to final leaf, spine gently sunned. Near fine. A nice example of one of the Irish poet's earlier titles.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
HEANEY, Seamus.. NORTH.. Faber And Faber, London, 1975.
Price: US$160.41 + shipping
Description: 8vo. Pp: 73. First paperback edition, published simultaneously with the hardback issue. Original publisher's blue covers with black lettering and illustration to front. Review slip loosely inserted. Faded at spine, light edgewear, some minor foxing to top edge, else clean. Very good.
Seller: Any Amount of Books, London, United Kingdom
HEANEY, Seamus.. North. FIRST EDITION IN P/BK.. Faber and Faber Ltd. London, 1975.
Price: US$192.49 + shipping
Description: Faber. London. 1975. First edition in p/bk that came out at the same time as the hardback. Covers faded to area of spine and foxed to margins of front panel and to rear cover. Occasional foxing to contents otherwise clean and sound.
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
Price: US$192.49 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing of the true first edition, which was published as a paperback original. A simultaneous hardback edition was published in a small print run in 1975 alongside this paperback issue, and is considered to be Seamus Heaney's scarcest trade first edition. ***Very good in blue printed matt card covers, with a portrait of Seamus Heaney by Edward McGuire on the back cover. The covers are slightly marked and rubbed with age and handling, but with no significant creases or bumps. There is a small mark and some light foxing spots on the front cover. The back cover is unusually clean and unmarked. With the original publisher's printed price of £1.25 net on the inside of the front cover. The blue of the spine is slightly faded as usual, and also along the margin of the front cover near to the spine. Internally near fine with no inscriptions or annotations. Text clean. Pages clean. No creases or tears. ***198mm x 128mm. 73 pages. ***With this new collection Seamus Heaney has found a myth - its people, history and landscape - and which gives the book direction, cohesion and cumulative power.' [Quote taken from the inside of the front cover] ***A first printing of the true first edition of Seamus Heaney's fourth poetry collection, seldom found now in first printing. Uncommon. ***Of interest to collectors and readers of Seamus Heaney's poetry. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
HEANEY, Seamus.. North.. London: Faber and Faber, (1975)., 1975.
Price: US$200.01 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, paper. 8vo., illustrated blue/white/black wrappers with outline of North on verso of front wrapper and a b&w reproduction of "Portrait of Seamus Heaney" by Edward McGuire on outer rear wrapper and ads on verso of rear wrapper, 73pp. Fortunately, this predates the logo-based design wrappers of later Faber and Faber titles. Considered by many to be the author's finest collection. Contains some of his cornerstone work : "The Seed Cutters", "Viking Dublin : Trial Pieces", "Bog Queen", "The Grauballe Man", "Strange Fruit", "Whatever You Say Say Nothing" and the "Singing School" sequence. Very good to near fine with fading to spine. A nice copy of a scarce edition of an important book. Note : Please contact Sellers & Newel to specify shipping options and minimize costs.
Seller: Sellers & Newel Second-Hand Books , Toronto, ON, Canada
Seamus Heaney. North (Signed Copy). Faber & Faber, London, 1975.
Price: US$250.24 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book condition: VG with a hint of fading; some very light abrasions; a couple of very faint spots to vertical page edges. First reprint in year of first publication (1975). Signed by Seamus Heaney on front blank endpaper. A bright, tight copy.
Seller: Kirklee Books, Glasgow, United Kingdom
HEANEY, Seamus. North. Faber and Faber Ltd, London, 1975.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second printing of the wrappered issue. Slim octavo. Wrappers moderately worn with a small crease on the cover and top corners gently bumped, very good. Briefly Inscribed by Heaney on the front blank: "Seamus Heaney. For Betty with love, Hallowe'en 1975."
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Heaney, Seamus.. North.. Faber and Faber Ltd, London, 1975.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Impression. First printing of the paperbound edition, concurrent with the hardcover. A Fine copy in pale blue smooth wrappers. 73pp. Q14169
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Heaney, Seamus. North. Faber & Faber, London, 1975.
Price: US$385.72 + shipping
Description: p.p. 73. Pictorial D.J. of Viking Ship. "The poet's most direct response to the troubles in his native Northern Ireland"
Seller: Healy Rare Books, Galway, Ireland
HEANEY, SEAMUS. North. Faber and Faber, London, 1975.
Price: US$513.31 + shipping
Description: First edition in paper wrappers, published simultaneously with the hardback issue. Signed by Heaney on first blank. Moderate edge-wear and fading to spine, else a very good copy.
Seller: Peter Grogan, London, United Kingdom
Seamus Heaney. North. Faber and Faber, London, 1975.
Price: US$635.22 + shipping
Description: A first edition copy of Seamus Heaney's work of poetry, in which he talks about the Troubles in Northern Ireland as well as Vikings. First Edition.In the publisher's original paper wraps.This is a collection of poems by Seamus Heaney, which was the first of his works to directly reference the Troubles in Northern Ireland. This work is divided into two parts, with the first dealing with themes of the Greek myth of Antaeus, bog bodies, and Vikings, and the second detailing the tumultuous events in Northern Ireland.Contents include 'Funeral Rites', 'Bog Queen', 'Kinship', 'Ocean's Love to Ireland', 'Hercules and Antaeus', and 'The Unacknowledged Legislator's Dream'.Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He is best-known for works such as 'Death of a Naturalist', and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995.Collated, complete. In the publisher's original paper wraps. Externally, very smart. Minimal edge wear to the extremities and the spine, with age-toning to the margins of boards and spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Heaney, Seamus. North. Faber & Faber, London, 1975.
Price: US$748.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo. First edition. Heaney's fourth regularly published book also proved his most controversial, as it was his first work to directly address The Troubles, which he presented within his characteristic framework of mythology in an effort to contextualize the present. But for a small bump to the lower rear corner, this is a sharp, bright copy in pale blue cloth, and with dustwrapper showing minimal fading to which this title is prone. (Brandes & Durkan A12).
Seller: Bromer Booksellers, Inc., ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Seamus Heaney. North. Faber and Faber, 1975.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing of Heaney's fourth regularly published collection and one of his major achievements, which was also the first to directly address The Troubles. London: Faber and Faber, 1975. Publisher's original blue cloth, gilt titles to spine; pp. 73. An about very good copy in a like, unclipped dust jacket. Binding remains tight and sturdy, light shelfwear to board extremities, a few spots of discoloration to front board and along the top edges, a couple small dampstains to the first few and last few pages. Jacket shows a bit of shelfwear, with toning and a few scattered dampstains, protected in archival mylar. Scarce.
Seller: Kevin Sell, The Rare Book Sleuth, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Heaney, Seamus. North. Faber and Faber, London, 1975.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First U.K. Edition, First Printing. The author's fourth collection of poetry, and many critics say his best. Book is near-fine, some very slight toning to the FFEP; dustwrapper is near-fine, slight toning to top front panel and spine.
Seller: Lyons Fine Books, Neenah, WI, U.S.A.
Heaney, Seamus.. North.. Faber and Faber Ltd, London, 1975.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Impression. A Fine copy in pale blue cloth stamped in gilt at spine, in a Very Near Fine pale blue dustwrapper, not price-clipped. Mild offsetting to front endpaper, as usual. One tiny closed tear top rear panel. Very slight lightening of color towards spine. 73pp. Late Nobel Laureate's fourth trade book of verse, typically among his most difficult titles to locate. Q07472
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Heaney, Seamus. NORTH. Faber and Faber Ltd, London, 1975.
Price: US$803.05 + shipping
Description: Pp. 74(last blank); demy 8vo; blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, backstrip and edges of front panel slightly faded (as often); upper endpapers browned, as usual; Faber and Faber Ltd, London, 1975. First edition. Brandes & Durkan A12a. *Heaney's fourth collection of poetry, and his first to deal directly with the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Heaney, Seamus. North. Faber & Faber, London, 1975.
Price: US$826.55 + shipping
Description: Pictorial D.J. of Viking Ship. The poets most direct response to the troubles in his native Northern Ireland.
Seller: Healy Rare Books, Galway, Ireland
HEANEY, Seamus.. North.. Faber and Faber, London., 1975.
Price: US$866.20 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. 73 pages. Usual tanning to front endpapers. Fine in near-fine dustwrapper with only a hint of the fading to which it is prone.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
HEANEY, Seamus.. North.. London: Faber and Faber, (1975)., 1975.
Price: US$939.46 + shipping
Description: First edition. Canadian poet, Douglas Le Pan's copy with his signature on the e/paper. Fine in d/w which is somewhat faded on the spine and along the bottom edge of the upper panel o/w near fine.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
HEANEY, Seamus.. North.. London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1975, 1975.
Price: US$962.45 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression. One of the poet's most controversial and passionate works, this collection reflects on a particularly violent period of the Troubles through the lens of myth. Despite the contentious subject, "it's the brilliant reconciliation of art with politics that sets North apart from the rest of Heaney's oeuvre and gives it a kind of dark majesty" (McCrum). Brandes & Durkan A12a. Robert McCrum, "The 100 best nonfiction books: No 11 - North by Seamus Heaney", The Guardian, 11 April 2016, accessible online. Octavo. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine. With dust jacket. Small bump to head of spine, cloth bright, front endpapers browned; jacket spine panel and edges a little sunned, small nick to head of rear flap, unclipped: a near-fine copy in like jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Heaney, Seamus.. North.. Faber and Faber Ltd, London, 1975.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Impression. A Fine copy in light blue cloth, dustwrapper (not price-clipped). 73pp. Nobel Prize winner. Q13599
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Heaney, Seamus. North. Faber and Faber, London, 1975.
Price: US$1800.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Advance uncorrected proof of the first British edition. Bound in publisher's blue wraps printed in black with review slip laid in. From the library of Irish writer Francis Stuart, with presentation inscription on the half-title from Ted Hickey reading, "For Francis Stuart from Ted Hickey 18 June 1975," five days prior to the publication date according to the penciled notation on the review slip. A further inscription in another hand reads, "Ted Hickey, Belfast. 26 March 1975." Hickey was Keeper of Art at the Ulster Museum when he commissioned a portrait of Seamus Heaney to be painted by Edward McGuire, which would be used on the rear cover of the dust jacket of the first edition. Very Good, spine toned and with two tiny droplet stains, a bit of wear to wraps. Corners bumped. A scarce, advance format of an early work by Seamus Heaney, with a nice association.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Heaney, Seamus. North (signed and inscribed). London: Faber and Faber, 1975, 1975.
Price: US$2252.48 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: First Edition, First Printing. A fine copy in a very good to near fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by Heaney on the front free endpaper: "Seamus Heaney / for Ron Ewart / Sláinte / Locarno, October 1977". Hardbound copies of North are quite scarce; with near contemporary inscriptions even more so.
Seller: Yves G. Rittener - YGRbookS, Zürich, Switzerland
Seamus Heaney. North, inscribed by the author. Faber and Faber Ltd., London, 1975.
Price: US$2600.00 + shipping
Description: This jacketed first edition, first printing is inscribed by Heaney in three inked lines on the front free endpaper recto: "For Alan | with good wishes | Seamus Heaney". Condition of both volume and dust jacket is conservatively graded as very good plus. The blue cloth binding is tight and unfaded with bright spine gilt, minimal wear confined to extremities, a slight forward lean, and a hint of faint, whitish mottling to the boards. The contents remain respectably bright. The sole previous ownership mark is the authors inscription. Differential toning to the endpapers corresponds to the dust jacket flaps and confirms that this copy has spent life jacketed. Light spotting and modest age-toning appears confined to the front pastedown and facing free endpaper and the page edges. The dust jacket is complete, unclipped with no loss or tears, with only mild toning to the fade-prone pale blue front panel and spine and light soiling and wear to extremities. The jacket is protected with a removable, archival quality clear cover. North marks Heaneys artistic engagement with the Troubles. The conflict in Northern Ireland spanning the last three decades of the 20th century coincided with Heaneys most prolific years as a poet. In 1972 he moved his family to Wicklow, south of Dublin, and began to write poetry full time. He wrote while "listening to the rain in the trees and to the news of bombings closer to home". (Nobel Lecture, 1995) Heaney became deeply concerned with the notion of a poets responsibilities, writing, "for years I was bowed to the desk like some monk bowed over his prie-dieu, some dutiful contemplative pivoting his understanding in an attempt to bear his portion of the weight of the world" (Nobel Lecture). Heaney calls North "The book of mine that came most intensely out of the first shock of the Troubles " (Interview, Stepping Stones, Dennis ODriscoll, p.448) In part, North was prompted by Irish playwright Brian Friels 1975 play Volunteers, which is set on a construction site in Dublin where an archaeological dig is in progress, exposing layers of Irish history and the violence embedded therein. Heaney said: " when I read the play, I immediately started typing out all the bog Singing School/St Columbs poems and so on, and by the end of a weekend I found I had a manuscript that I could send to Faber as well as to Brian. Thats how North got assembled " (Stepping Stones, p.179) The volume is in two parts. Part I is a metaphorical excavation of Irelands history, mining "the stable element, the land itself, that we must look for continuity" ("The Sense of Place", lecture, 1977). The poems of "Part II" are more "conversational and personal". Of them, Heaney said "They were a second movement as much as they were a second section different in pitch but integral to the book They come out of the matter of the North of Ireland." (Stepping Stones, p.179) North, Heaney said, does "What the necessary poetry always does, which is to touch the base of our sympathetic nature while taking in at the same time the unsympathetic reality of the world to which that nature is constantly exposed" (Nobel Lecture). Seamus Justin Heaney (1939-2013) was the first of nine children born to a farmer and raised in rural County Derry "in suspension between the archaic and the modern." At Queens University Belfast Heaney evolved into a poet. In 1965 Heaney was a member of a group of young Belfast poets known as "The Group" when his first book, Eleven Poems, was published by Queens Festival Publications to coincide with their 1965 festival. The 1966 publication of Death of a Naturalist brought critical acclaim. The next half century saw Heaney publish a dozen poetry collections, as well as prose, plays, and numerous translations. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995 "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past". Bibliographic reference: Brandes & Durkan A12a.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
HEANEY, Seamus.. North.. London Faber & Faber, 1975.
Price: US$3448.50 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper; 8vo; front endpapers browned as usual; publisher's blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, with the dust jacket. An exceptional copy in the rather faded dust jacket. With the author's signed, presentation inscription to the front free endpaper on the day of publication, 'for Francis Quail Seamus Heaney 9th June 1975'. Contemporary presentation copies of North are uncommon, the collection is certainly one of the poet's major achievements. The jacket - which is printed on a pale blue ground - is particularly prone to fading. Brandes & Durkan A12a
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Seamus Heaney. North. Faber & Faber, London, 1975.
Price: US$3750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First UK Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine book in a fine unclipped dust jacket. Signed and dated on publication day (9th June, 1975) by the author on the front flyleaf. Book has a touch of rubbing to the edges, light spotting to the top edge and toning to the front flyleaf.
Seller: MDS BOOKS, Mississauga, ON, Canada