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Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, regular issue. 12mo. 12pp. Sewn blue wrappers. A fine, bright copy in publisher's printed envelope, the envelope is lightly toned at the extremities. Privately printed "to mark the inauguration of the Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature April 11-15, 1988." Limited to 300 copies.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
HEANEY Seamus. The Sounds of Rain. , 1988.
Price: US$207.81 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo., original hand-stitched pale-blue wrappers, white printed label. Atlanta, Emory University. Limited to 300 copies printed at The Shadowy Waters Press for Emory to mark the inauguration of The Richard Ellman Memorial Lectures in Modern Literature. Fine in original printed envelope. Brandes & Durkan A43a.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Heaney, Seamus. THE SOUNDS OF RAIN. Emory University, [Atlanta], 1988.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. One of 300 unnumbered copies. Privately printed at the Shadowy Waters Press to mark the inauguration of the Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature. A fine copy in publisher's envelope. ONE OF ONLY 300 COPIES, THIS ONE IN ORIGINAL ENVELOPE
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
Heaney (Seamus).. The Sound of Rain [a poem]. Emory University, Atlanta,, 1988.
Price: US$269.38 + shipping
Description: One of 300 copies Fine copy in publishers envelope Privately Printed at the Shadowy Waters Press to mark the inauguration of the Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature.
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$416.90 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Crown8vo, unpaginated. Original light blue light card covers, sewn, white printed paper label on the upper cover. A pristine as new copy signed on the title by Seamus Heaney. In the original near fine white envelope printed blue on the top left with several spots of foxing. One of 300 copies, this one signed by Heaney. First edition.
Seller: JIRI Books, Lisburn, United Kingdom