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Heaney, Seamus. Station Island. Faber & Faber, 1984.
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Seamus Heaney. Station Island. Faber & Faber, London, 1984.
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Condition: Very Good
Description: Original cover. Reprint in year of first publication.
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Heaney, Seamus. Station Island. Faber, 1984.
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Condition: Very Good
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Heaney, Seamus. Station Island. Faber, 1984.
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Heaney, Seamus. Station Island. Faber, 1984.
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Condition: Fair
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Heaney, Seamus. Station Island. Faber and Faber, 1984.
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Condition: Good
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Seller: Librodifaccia, Alessandria, AL, Italy
HEANEY, SEAMUS. Station Island. Faber and Faber 1984, 1984.
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Heaney, Seamus. STATION ISLAND. Faber and Faber, 1984.
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Condition: Fair
Description: Faber and Faber, 1984, reprint. Paperback, 8vo, 123pp. Covers slightly worn. A fair copy. 0571133029/0.2uk
Seller: GfB, the Colchester Bookshop, Colchester, United Kingdom
Heaney, Seamus. Station Island. Faber and Faber, London, 1984.
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Condition: Very Good
Description: A paperback book in very good condition, dated 1984.
Seller: Merandja Books, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Seamus Heaney. Seamus Heaney: Station Island.. Faber, 1984.
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Description: Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.
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Heaney, Seamus. Station Island. Faber & Faber, 1984.
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Condition: New
Description: Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 137 x 11. Weight in Grams: 162. 2001. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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Heaney, Seamus. Station Island. Faber & Faber, 1984.
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Condition: Very Good
Description: Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 137 x 11. Weight in Grams: 162. Clean copy with minor shelf wear. 2001. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
Seller: Kennys Bookstore, Olney, MD, U.S.A.
Heaney, Seamus. Station Island. Faber, 1984.
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Condition: Fair
Description: Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.
Seller: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
Heaney, Seamus. Station Island. Faber, 1984.
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Condition: Fair
Description: Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.3
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
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Description: PAPERBACK. LONDON : 1984. [ First published in the same year.]. Paperback. Black and red pictorial covers. Bright, tight and clean. No owner name or internal markings. Minor wear only. VERY GOOD INDEED. 123 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
HEANEY, Seamus. Station Island. Faber & Faber, Incorporated, London, 1984.
Price: US$11.20 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Tight, clean copy of this early reprint of this 123 pp. book of poems by the Nobel Prize winning Irish author. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.
Seamus Heaney. Station Island. Faber & Faber, London, 1984.
Price: US$11.45 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 123pp. 1st edition paperback. Black Faber motif design on covers with red lettering on white title plate on face and spine. Tightly bound. No inscriptions. Appears unread. Laid in is a green Poetry Book Society leaflet and order form.
Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, United Kingdom
Heaney, Seamus. Station Island. Faber & Faber, 1984.
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Condition: Very Good
Description: Faber 1984 2nd impression paperback very good+ clean tight binding
Seller: MacKellar Art & Books, Bournemouth, United Kingdom
Heaney, Seamus. STATION ISLAND. Faber and Faber, London, 1984.
Price: US$13.29 + shipping
Description: Pp. 124(last blank), notes; cr. 8vo; printed stiff pale green paper wrappers with flap folds, the backstrip faintly faded; Faber and Faber, London, 1984 [probably c. 2000]. Fifteenth impression. [Reprint of Brandes & Durkan A36]. The date on the title page verso is that of the first edition.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Heaney, Seamus. Station Island. Faber & Faber, London, 1984.
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Description: 8vo. original printed paper wraps (a trifle rubbed, occ. spots); pp. 124 (last blank), with title page decoration. A near fine copy.
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
Price: US$15.26 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Second printing of the true first edition, published in the same year as the first printing - the wrappers issue. There was a scarcer hardcover issue published at the same time. ***A near fine copy in colour illustrated card covers, with a cover design by Pentagram. Covers clean and unmarked - bright, with no fading to the spine. The edges of the covers are fine with no bumps or creases. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions or annotations. Pages clean - the paper stock still nice and white. Spine tight. ***198mm x 128mm. 123 pages including two pages of Notes at the back of the book. ***Contents - PART ONE: The Underground, La Toilette, Sloe Gin, Away from it All, Chekhov on Sakhalin, Sandstone Keepsake, Shelf Life 1. Granite Chip, Shelf Life 2. Old Smoothing Iron, Shelf Life 3. Old Pewter, Shelf Life 4. Iron Spike, Shelf Life 5. Stone from Delphi, Shelf Life 6. A Snowshoe, A Migration, Last Look, Remembering Malibu, Making Strange, The Birthplace, Changes, An Ulster Twilight, A Bat on the Road, A Hazel Stick for Catherine Ann, A Kite for Michael and Christopher, The Railway Children, Sweetpea, An Aisling in the Burren, Widgeon, Sheelagh na Gig, The Loaning, The Sandpit 1. 1946, The Sandpit 2. The Demobbed Bricklayer, The Sandpit 3. The Sand Boom, The Sandpit 4. What the Brick Keeps, The King of the Ditchbacks I - III. PART TWO - STATION ISLAND: Station Island I - XII. PART THREE - SWEENEY REDIVIVUS: The First Gloss, Sweeney Redivivus, Unwinding, In the Beech, The First Kingdom, The First Flight, Drifting Off, Alerted, The Cleric, The Hermit, The Master, The Scribes, A Waking Dream, In the Chestnut Tree, Sweeney's Returns, Holly, An Artist, The Old Icons, In Illo Tempore, On the Road. ***'"Station Island" is the sixth collection of original poetry written by the Northern Irish poet Seamus Heaney, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. It is dedicated to the Northern Irish playwright Brian Friel. The collection was first published in the UK and Ireland in 1984 by Faber & Faber. The title of the collection, Station Island, is taken from the long poem of the same name that comprises the second part of the collection. It refers to Station Island (also known as St. Patrick's Purgatory) on Lough Derg in Co. Donegal, a site of Christian pilgrimage for many centuries. During his undergraduate years at Queen's University Belfast, Heaney went on the pilgrimage several times. The poems in the collection are generally focused on the role of the poet and their relationship to history and politics but, more specifically, are also a platform through which Heaney can examine his own complex relationship with the sectarian violence of The Troubles in Northern Ireland (including his decision to move his family out of the north to the Republic of Ireland in 1972).' [Wiki] ***'The title poem of Seamus Heaney's new collection, his first for five years, is set on an island which has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with "the growth of a poet's mind". Heaney's pilgrim is on an inner journey and proceeds through a series of encounters which lead him back into the world which formed him and then forward to face the crises of the present. The long poem is preceded by a section of richly meditative lyrics and leads naturally into a third group of poems in which the poet's voice is at one with the voice of the legendary Sweeney, a King of Ulster whose story Mr Heaney has recently translated from the Irish.' [Quote taken from the back cover]. ***A second printing of the true first edition of the simultaneous paperback issue, in beautiful near fine condition. ***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. STATION ISLAND. Faber, 1984.
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Heaney, Seamus. Station Island. Faber, 1984.
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Heaney, Seamus. Station Island. Faber, 1984.
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Condition: As New
Description: Unread book in perfect condition.
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Seamus Heaney. Station Island. Faber&Faber, London, 1984.
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Condition: Very Good
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Seller: VANESSA PARKER RARE BOOKS, Westport, MAYO, Ireland
Heaney, Seamus. Station Island. Faber & Faber, London, 1984.
Price: US$18.04 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. 123 pp. Age toning to paper, else fine. The title poem of this collection is set on an island, which as been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind.'.
Seller: Minotavros Books, ABAC ILAB, Whitby, ON, Canada
Heaney, Seamus. Station Island. Faber & Faber, 1984.
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Seller: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom
Heaney, Seamus.. Station Island.. Faber and Faber Ltd, London, 1984.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing of the paperback issue, Fine in grey white and red wrappers. 123pp. Includes the long title poem in 12 sections. Q12019
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Heaney, Seamus. Station Island. Faber & Faber, Incorporated, 1984.
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Condition: Good
Description: Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.1
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Heaney, Seamus. Station Island. Faber & Faber, Limited, 1984.
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Condition: As New
Description: Used book that is in almost brand-new condition.
Seller: Better World Books: West, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
Heaney, Seamus (1939-2013). Station Island / Seamus Heaney. London : Faber and Faber, 1984.
Price: US$20.80 + shipping
Description: Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Physical description: 123p. ; 21cm. Subjects: English poetry -- 20th century. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Heaney, Seamus. Station Island. Faber, 1984.
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Heaney, Seamus. Station Island. Faber & Faber, London, 1984.
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Condition: Fine
Description: | Fine -- illus.wrap. The simultaneous softcover issue of first British edition.
Seller: Tony Power, Books, North Vancouver, BC, Canada
Heaney, Seamus.. Station Island.. Faber and Faber, London, 1984.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The paperback issue. A Fine copy in grey patterned wrappers. (There was also a hardcover issue.) 123pp. Nobel Prize winner. Q03503
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Heaney, Seamus. Station Island. Faber, 1984.
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Condition: Fine
Description: Fine copy . No additions
Seller: Ystwyth Books, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
Heaney, Seamus. Station Island. Faber, 1984.
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Condition: New
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Heaney, Seamus. Station Island. Faber, 1984.
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Condition: New
Description: New
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Heaney, Seamus. Station Island. Faber, 1984.
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Condition: Good
Description: Buy with confidence! Book is in good condition with minor wear to the pages, binding, and minor marks within
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Heaney, Seamus. Station Island. Faber and Faber, London, 1984.
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Condition: Very Good
Description: Paperback. Slight fading and a little wear on covers. Penned dedication on FEP. Pages are clean. Text is clear throughout. AF
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
HEANEY, Seamus.. Station Island.. Faber and Faber, London., 1984.
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Description: First edition. Wrappers issue (i.e. paperback), issued simultaneously with the hardback. Octavo. 123 pages.Small spot on first blank. Fine.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Heaney, Seamus (1939-2013). Station Island / Seamus Heaney. London : Faber and Faber, 1984.
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Description: Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Physical description: 123p. ; 21cm. Subjects: English poetry -- 20th century. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Heaney, Seamus. Station Island. Faber and Faber, London, 1984.
Price: US$42.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book has 2 slightly bumped corners thus very good plus. Dj is fine.
Seller: Uncommon Books, Glastonbury, CT, U.S.A.
Seamus Heaney. Station Island. Faber and Faber, London, Boston, 1984.
Price: US$44.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Slight wear to edges of the book. Very slight discoloration to the pages.
Seller: Sabra Books, Naperville, IL, U.S.A.
Heaney, Seamus. Station Island. Faber Faber, 1984.
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Condition: Very Good
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Heaney, Seamus. Station Island. Faber, 1984.
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Seller: The Book Spot, Sioux Falls, SD, U.S.A.
Heaney, Seamus. STATION ISLAND. Faber, 1984.
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Condition: New
Description: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 0.4
Seller: BennettBooksLtd, North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Heaney, Seamus. Station Island. Faber & Faber, 1984.
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Condition: Very Good
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Seller: Imaginal Books, Sardent, France
HEANEY, Seamus. Station Island. Faber and Faber, London, 1984.
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Condition: Very Good
Description: 123 p. 21 cm. Black cloth in dustjacket. Wrapped in mylar (removed for photo). Inscription on front free endpaper. Very faint soiling to white sections of jacket.
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
Heaney, Seamus. Station Island. Faber & Faber, London, 1984.
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Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition first impression, hardcover issue. A clean unmarked copy in the dust wrapper, not price clipped or inscribed.
Seller: Temple Bar Bookshop, Dublin, DUB, Ireland
HEANEY, Seamus. Station Island. Faber and Faber, London, 1984.
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Condition: Fine
Description: 123 p. 21 cm. Black cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Station Island, takes its name from a centuries-old Irish site of pilgrimage in Lough Derg. The title poem tells of a pilgrim on an inner journey that leads him back into the world that formed him. Other poems include Shelf Life, An Ulster Twilight, A Kite for Michael and Christopher, An Aisling in the Burren, Sheelagh na Gig, etc.
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
Price: US$101.76 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: UK paperback first impression from 1984. From the estate of author Alasdair Gray. He has written landscape poetry in his own hand to rear endpapers. Can provide photos. Good overall with ssome general wear to covers.
Seller: Hunter Books, Burnham, BUCKS, United Kingdom
Price: US$120.84 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Crown8vo, 123 p. Original black boards, gilt. As new unread copy in an as new price intact dust jacket. First edition. Note in the first issue the front free endpaper is the half-title. The late Nobel Prize Winner's sixth separate collection of poetry.
Seller: JIRI Books, Lisburn, United Kingdom
Heaney, Seamus. Station Island. Faber and Faber, London, 1984.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. First edition, 1984 Faber and Faber. DJ very good with very little edgewear. Pages clean, binding tight. Pictures available upon request.
Seller: Webster's Bookstore Cafe, Inc., State College, PA, U.S.A.
Heaney, Seamus. Station Island. Faber, 1984.
Price: US$127.20 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1st edition VG+ and Near fine dw. No marks and not price clipped. Pentagram designed dw. 0.0
Seller: Poor Richards Books, Felixstowe, United Kingdom
Heaney, Seamus. STATION ISLAND. Faber & Faber, London, 1984.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: First edition, first state without any ffe or fly - half title as "first" page. As new all around.
Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB, Salisbury, CT, U.S.A.
HEANEY, Seamus. Station Island. London: Faber and Faber, 1984.
Price: US$152.64 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Octavo, pp 123. Black cloth covered hard boards with gilt lettering to spine. In original dust jacket, un-clipped (£5.95 net). For some reason, this book was bound without a blank endpaper - the front endpaper is the half-title, as always seen. Fine condition book in Fine condition jacket - an excellent copy.
Seller: Picture This (ABA, ILAB, IVPDA), Sunningdale, United Kingdom
HEANEY, Seamus. Station Island. Faber, 1984, 1984.
Price: US$159.00 + shipping
Description: 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dustwrapper, no front endpaper as originally issued. The author's sixth volume of verse, a very nice copy.
Seller: Shellhouse Books, Quinton, Northants, United Kingdom
HEANEY Seamus. Station Island. , 1984.
Price: US$171.72 + shipping
Description: First edition. Small 8vo. Original black cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, dust jacket. London, Faber and Faber. A fine copy. Brandes & Durkan A36a.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Heaney, Seamus. Station Island. London; Faber;, 1984.
Price: US$190.80 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Near fine with a dusty top edge in fine dustjacket.
Seller: timkcbooks (Member of Booksellers Association), Penzance, United Kingdom
Seamus Heaney. Station Island. faber faber, London, 1984.
Price: US$219.04 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: A very fine copy indeed of this first edition with its fine dust jacket proctected with a removable see through sleeve. Just small amount light foxing spots on the eps .
Seller: VANESSA PARKER RARE BOOKS, Westport, MAYO, Ireland
Heaney, Seamus. Station Island. Faber and Faber, London, 1984.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Threads can be seen on title page.
Seller: Encanto Books, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Seamus Heaney. Station Island. , 1984.
Price: US$254.40 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1984 Faber and Faber paperback edition.Signed by Seamus Heaney on title page with owners name written above and dated October 1984. Note written on page 81 and slight foxing to outside top of pages.
Seller: Books Upstairs, Dublin, IRL, Ireland
Heaney, Seamus. Station Island. Faber and Faber, London, 1984.
Price: US$288.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Published in a run of 3,000 copies. A highlight of the collection is Heaney's longform poem, "Shelf Life," in which he contends in six parts with the bits and bobs found on a shelf, a granite chip, an iron spike, and a stone from Delphi among them. Bound in black cloth over boards with gilt spine titling. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Together with the first edition in wrappers, issued in a run of 10,000 copies by Faber and Faber simultaneous to the version in boards. Very good in pictorial wrappers. Also with the first American edition of 6,000 copies published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, NY, in 1985. Motes of exterior soiling and trace foxing to edges of text block, else good in good dust wrapper. Laid in are FSG's prospectus and a headshot of Heaney, which also appears on the rear flap of the dust wrapper.
Seller: Bromer Booksellers, Inc., ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Heaney, Seamus.. Station Island.. Faber and Faber, London, 1984.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: A flawless copy in like dustwrapper. Not price-clipped. First state without free front endpaper. 123pp with Notes. Late Nobel Prize winner's sixth separate collection of verse. Q05138
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Heaney, Seamus. Station Island. Faber and Faber, London Boston, 1984.
Price: US$603.54 + shipping
Description: Inscribed & signed presentation copy to Frank McEvoy. p.p. 123. Inscribed on title page To Frank le meas mór Seamus Heaney 2 March. 1995 Fine pictorial D.J. Ephemera. Frank McEvoy, a Kilkenny book seller, was a founder member of the Kilkenny Literary Society. A good friend of Heaneys for many years. He was instrumental in the poets lecture to the society.
Seller: Healy Rare Books, Galway, Ireland
Price: US$629.65 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Crown8vo, 123 p. Original black boards, gilt. A very fine copy in a very fine dust jacket priced at £5.95. First edition. Inscribed on the half-title 'Seamus Heaney 3/12/85 in Maynooth [underline]'. Note: in the first issue the front free endpaper is the half-title. The late Nobel Prize Winner's sixth separate collection of poetry. Inscribed copy without any other marks or blemishes. Brandes and Durkan A36.
Seller: JIRI Books, Lisburn, United Kingdom
HEANEY, Seamus.. Station Island.. Faber and Faber, London., 1984.
Price: US$699.61 + shipping
Description: First edition, second issue binding in black cloth (the first issue is very scarce). Octavo. 123 pages. No front free endpaper, as issued.Inscribed by the author on the title-page: ''for Philip - Seamus Heaney 4/10/84''.Fine in fine dustwrapper.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
HEANEY, Seamus. STATION ISLAND. London: Faber and Faber., 1984.
Price: US$699.61 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the Pentagram designed dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean without inscriptions or stamps. All copies of this edition were bound without a front endpaper with the half title facing the pastedown. The dustwrapper is in fine condition without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£5.95 net to the front flap) Signed and dated "June 1985" by Seamus Heaney on the title page. 'Station Island', Heaney's first volume after 'Field Work' (1979) is centred around its title sequence, "a sequence of dream encounters with familiar ghosts, set on Station Island on Lough Derg in Co. Donegal" (from Heaney's note). It stages a series of encounters with figures from the poet's own past, as well as encounters with earlier Irish writers, most notably William Carleton, Patrick Kavanagh and, at the end, James Joyce. The sequence, which owes much to Dante and frequently calls upon the Italian poet's trademark terza rima, is one of Heaney's greatest achievements. On either side of the title sequence are a section of lyrics and 'Sweeney Redivivus', a sequence in which the poet's voice once again (after the earlier 'Sweeney Astray' [1983]) merges with "the seventh-century Ulster king who was transformed into a bird-man and exiled to the trees by the curse of St Ronan." Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
Price: US$1646.02 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Station Island. London: Faber, 1984. Pp, 123. First Edition. A fine copy in dust jacket. Presentation copy, Inscribed by Seamus Heaney on the front free endpaper, and with three lines of verse from the poem 'Stone from Delphi' which appears on page 24. Heaney's first new collection of poems since 1979, is set on an island (Lough Derg) which has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years.
Seller: Ulysses Rare Books Ltd. ABA, ILAB, Dublin , Ireland