Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$22.43 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: pp 77. Light volume - shipping charge will be reduced at processing stage. '. Seamus Heaney's version of "Buile Suibhne", one of the major achievements in the canon of [Irish] medieval literature. The story centres on the fate of Sweeney, the king of Dal-Arie in Ulster, who was cursed by a saint, turned into a bird, and driven astray for years until the curse was fulfilled by his death.' Inscription of previous owner on half-title. This work was also published in hardcover.
Seller: Geata Buidhe - Yellow Gate - Books, Kilkenny, KK, Ireland
Price: US$35.29 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 77pp. Green thin card covers with black and white lettering and mask illustration on front cover. No inscriptions. Light foxing to ffep. Light toning to page edges. Vertical line (paper flaw) on p43 margin. First edition in paperback.
Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, United Kingdom
Heaney, Seamus. SWEENEY ASTRAY. A Version From The Irish. Field Day Theatre Company, Derry, 1983.
Price: US$38.50 + shipping
Description: First printing simultaneously published: Trade Paper issue in illustrated wraps. Minor crease else fine and tight.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
HEANEY, Seamus. SWEENEY ASTRAY; A version from the Irish. Field Day Theatre Co, Derry Ireland, 1983.
Price: US$47.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. x, 13-77. An illustration and a cover drawing by Colin Middleton. Paper wraps. Some slight foxing on first and last few leaves, cover a bit scuffed, o/w a VG tight copy. Brandes & Durkan A34b. Heaney's version of the 17th Century Irish text.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Heaney, Seamus. Sweeney Astray: A Version From the Irish. Field Day, Derry, 1983.
Price: US$78.42 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Top edge of boards slightly dust soiled and dustwrapper slightly abrade and creased to the top edges otherwise a firm, clean copy.
Seller: Frances Wetherell, Cambridge, United Kingdom
HEANEY, SEAMUS. Sweeney Astray. Field Day Theatre Company, Derry, 1983.
Price: US$94.68 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Octavo. Grey pebbled cloth with black titles and decorations in decorative dust jacket. This is Heaney's version, from the Irish, of Buile Suibhne, a medieval Irish epic. Fine copy.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Heaney, Seamus. Sweeney Astray. Field Day, 1983.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A fine square and tight hardcover copy in a very good to near fine dustjacket/brodart covered, First Edition. The dustjacket has very light edgewear to top of dustjacket spine and top edge of dustjacket. The publisher's laminated dustjacket show's crackling throughout. I do not know if this is a publisher flaw or was done on purpose. Otherwise, the dustjacket is very nice, clean and bright. An interesting gift inscription appears on the blank page after the title page. = We ship all books with Delivery Confirmation. = We have been selling Used Books for over 27 years.
Seller: Booklegger's Fine Books ABAA, Park Ridge, IL, U.S.A.
Heaney, Seamus. Sweeney Astray. Dublin; Field Day;, 1983.
Price: US$130.70 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Very good with some foxing to preliminaries and foredge in fine dustjacket.
Seller: timkcbooks (Member of Booksellers Association), Penzance, United Kingdom
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 77 p. 24 cm. Hardcover in mylar-covered dustjacket. A version of the medieval Irish poem Buile Shuibhne, based on an earlier translation by J.G. O'Keeffe in 1913.
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
Heaney, Seamus. Sweeney Astray. A Version from the Irish. A Field Day Publication, Derry, 1983.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Derry: A Field Day Publication, 1983. Seaumus Heaney (1939-2013) received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. Here he rendered into English one of the great Medieval epics of Ireland. Published by the Field Day Theatre Company, which was founded by Brian Friel, another prominentt Irish author. This is a Fine copy of the First Edition. Light gray "oatmeal" cloth binding with titling on the spine in black; helmet decoration on the front cover. Clean text; x, 77 pages. The dustwrapper is also Fine; in an archival plastic protector. First Ed. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Colin Middleton. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$209.13 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Medium8vo, x, [11]-77 p. Original oatmeal buckram, lettered and decorated black, black endpapers. An as new unmarked and unread copy in a pristine as new price intact dust jacket. First edition. Ignore the shadow at the foot of the pristine dust jacket, it is my shadow!
Seller: JIRI Books, Lisburn, United Kingdom
Heaney, Seamus. Sweeney Astray, A version from the Irish. Field Day Publications, 1983.
Price: US$252.35 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1983. Paperback. First edition. Showing light shelf and reading wear. Previous owner's name to ffep remains in very good conditionKeywords: Poetry and prose - Ireland - Poets and authors. First edition copy. . . .
Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Ireland
Heaney, Seamus. Sweeney Astray, A version from the Irish. Field Day Publications, 1983.
Price: US$258.44 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1983. Paperback. First edition. Showing light shelf and reading wear. Previous owner's name to ffep remains in very good conditionKeywords: Poetry and prose - Ireland - Poets and authors. First edition copy. . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
Seller: Kennys Bookstore, Olney, MD, U.S.A.
Heaney Seamus. Sweeney Astray A Version from the Irish. A Field Day Publication, 1983.
Price: US$448.63 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition - Fine copy in dustwrapper - 7/0021 - 77pp. - A Field Day Publication, Derry. 1983. Hardcover. . . . .
Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Ireland
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: First Impression, cloth issue, one of 1,000 copies. Octavo (23.75cm); greyish-white rexine cloth boards, with titling and decorative elements stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xii,77,[3]pp. Signed by the author on the title page, dated August, 1993. Fine in a Fine dustjacket, with some trivial wear along the upper edge. A sharp copy of Heaney's translation of Buile Suibhne, a classic of medieval literature. "The story centres on the fate of Sweeney, the king of Dal-Arie in Ulster, who was cursed by a saint, turned into a bird, and driven astray for years until the curse was fulfilled by his death" (from front flap). Brandes & Durkan A34.a.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
Seamus Heaney. Sweeney Astray. Field Day Theatre Company, 1983.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Londonderry, Ireland: Field Day Theatre Company Limited, 1983. 77 pp. SIGNED true first edition. Buckram binding in the original unclipped dust jacket. Two-color typography. In VG+ condition with NF dust jacket. Some foxing to preliminary pages. Inscribed in 1993 by Heaney (in Gaelic) to poet, editor and essayist Donald Faulkner who subsequently became director of the NY State Writers Institute. Also signed (three years earlier) by Marie Claire Sweeney, an Irish theatre festival organizer. The Field Day Theatre Company, founded in 1980, was an attempt by six Irish artists and intellectuals (Brian Friel, Stephen Rea, Seamus Deane, Seamus Heaney, David Hammond and Tom Pauli) to respond to the unsettled political situation in a socially, morally and creatively responsible manner. Sweeney Astray is a version of the medieval Irish epic Buile Shuibhne. It won the 1985 PEN Translation Prize for verse.
Seller: White Square - Fine Books & Art, Easthampton, MA, U.S.A.
Heaney Seamus. Sweeney Astray A Version from the Irish. A Field Day Publication, 1983.
Price: US$841.18 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition - Fine copy in fine dustrapper - Includes newsclippings with dates and publications noted - Signed by the author - 7/0003 - 77pp. - A Field Day Publication, Derry. 1983. Hardcover. . . . .
Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Ireland
HEANEY, Seamus.. Sweeney Astray - A version from the Irish.. Field Day, Derry., 1983.
Price: US$849.58 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. 77 pages. Three page Introduction by the author, by whom there is also one page of Notes and Acknowledgements. Two drawings by Colin Middleton.Signed by the author on the title-page.Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a hint of fading to the spine.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1241.69 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Full buckram binding. This is the true world First Edition, First Impression. Signed by Author. A wonderful version from the Irish by this acclaimed Nobel winning poet with superb two colour typography. This beautiful production from Field Day is a much sought after book, and especially rare in a signed copy as this. The Nobel Laureate has signed this on the title page. He has dated it as '26.6.87' so it is later than the publication date of 1983. He has also cancelled his printed name. There is an illustration on the front cover of the jacket, by Colin Middleton with a slightly adapted version of the same drawing used on the buckram front binding inside a recess. Two internal drawings, one of a birds nest, containing the head of a bird and a human hand and the other a further appearance of the cover device but printed in sanguine ink. All the drawings are by Middleton. This is a very difficult title to find signed. I ordered it from Field Day and wish I had ordered more copies, because it quickly sold out. I have left the price sticker on the back cover, which says £8! I obtained the signature at a reading on Londons South Bank.Slight foxing to a few pages, and a neat former owner blind stamp and name to the half title, which explains why this is Near Fine. Jacket is protected and unclipped, and it is without any damage or spine fade. Very rare indeed. 0.0 0.0 0.0
Seller: THE BOOKSNIFFER, Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Price: US$1372.32 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: First Edition, First Printing. A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper. The author has crossed out his name on the title page and signed it "Seamus". On the same page he wrote the following: "for Ronald and Marie / from Heaneys astray / in St. Gallen / with gratitude for the / welcome and hospitality / Seamus + / 27 July 1983". Laid into the book there is a note saying that Heaney got the date wrong as it was November 27th 1983.
Seller: Yves G. Rittener - YGRbookS, Zürich, Switzerland