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Heaney, Seamus. Sweeney Astray : A Version from the Irish. Farrar Straus, 1983, 1983.
Price: US$10.95 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing Fine bright tall glossy stiff wraps with strong spine and clean text. Just the slightest hint of age tone. Gift quality
Seller: Longhouse, Publishers & Booksellers, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
Heaney Seamus. Sweeney Astray. Farrar Straus Girous, New York, 1983.
Price: US$22.55 + shipping
Description: A bright clean copy as never read. Dustjacket and two tears along the head.
Seller: Westside Stories, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Heaney, Seamus. Sweeney Astray : A Version from the Irish. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1983.
Price: US$26.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Softcover, clean pages and barely opened if ever. A bit of shelf wear at the corners.
Seller: The Curated Bookshelf, East Hanover, NJ, U.S.A.
Seamus Heaney. Sweeney Astray A Version From the Irish. Farrar, Straus And Giroux, U. S. A., 1983.
Price: US$29.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: U. S. A.: Farrar, Straus And Giroux, 1983. Book. Very Good+. Trade Paperback. First American Edition. 8vo - over 7þ" - 9þ" tall. Very Good Clean First American Edition Trade Paperback NOT a library copy. Many feel the old Irish 'Madness of Sweeney', is the Welsh Myrddin/Merlin tale in Irish. Here is Seamus Heaney's translation into modern English. Three Geese In Flight since 1977 we wrap our books first in brown paper before packing.
Seller: Three Geese in Flight Celtic Books, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Heaney, Seamus. Sweeney Astray. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1983.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: First printing. Very Good+ in a Fine dustjacket. Pale green boards quarterbound in brown cloth. The spine is stamped in metallic green. 85pps. First Printing. A previous owner's brief inscription is near the top of the ffep. Also, page 41 has a crease as well as a small tear out of its lower corner (not affecting the text). Otherwise clean, tight, square and bright. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is in fine condition; the white flaps are faintly dulled. The original price (13.95) is intact. A nice copy. Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. X03-B.
Seller: Nooks Of Books , Elkins Park, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Description: First US edition. Original cloth backed pale green boards, with just a hint of sunning at top edge; dust jacket slightly faded at spine and lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners. A near fine copy.
Seller: Wilfrid M. de Freitas - Bookseller, ABAC, Montreal, QC, Canada
Heaney, Seamus. Sweeney Astray. A Version from the Irish. Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York, 1983.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First American trade edition. 86pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Tan cloth-backed boards. Fine, in Near Fine dust jacket, with spine panel slightly faded
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Heaney, Seamus. Sweeney Astray. A Version from the Irish. Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York, 1983.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: First American trade edition. 86pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed on the ffep "Seamus Heaney to Mike November 1984." Brown cloth and green boards. Fine in fine pictorial dustjacket
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
HEANEY, Seamus. Sweeney Astray (Signed Limited Edition). Farrar Straus and Giroux, New York, 1983.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: First U.S. edition. Hardcover. First printing. Limited edition of 350 specially bound copies but this an out of series copy. Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work "Buile Suibhne." Features illustrations by Barrie Cooke. A clean very near fine copy in cloth boards and in very fine slipcase. Signed by Heaney on the limitation page. A lovely copy.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.