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Heaney, Seamus. Death of a Naturalist. Faber & Faber, 1966.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
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Seller: Chicago Signed Books, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
HEANEY, Seamus (1939-2013). Death of a Naturalist [Signed]. Oxford University Press, New York, 1966.
Price: US$1624.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing of the poet's critically acclaimed first commercially published work (preceded by the privately printed pamphlet, Eleven Poems, in 1965), one of only 1,000 copies (bound from sheets purchased from Faber and Faber, Heaney's London publisher). Tall, slim 8vo: 57,[1]pp. Publisher's aquamarine cloth, spine lettered in gilt; typographic dust jacket, in salmon-pink, olive and white, lettered in black and priced $3.75. Signed by Heaney on the title page. A stunning copy, tight, square and likely unread; about Fine jacket, fresh and bright, with usual fading to the fugitive salmon-pink on bottom half of spine panel but all lettering undiminished. Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, the Cholmondeley Award, the Eric Gregory Award, and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Heaney received the Nobel Prize in literature, in 1995. Brandes & Durkan A2b. A collection of 34 poems largely concerned with rural life, often in the context of childhood experiences and the formulation of adult identities and intimate relationships. It includes "Digging," "Death of a Naturalist," "Blackberry-Picking," among others. "Seamus Heaney has been, for good or ill, internationally the most prominent and the most popular Irish poet of the latter part of the twentieth century and the first part of the twenty-first. . . . His first two collections, Death of a Naturalist and Door into the Dark [a signed copy of which we also have on offer], largely written before the renewed outbreak of the so-called 'Troubles' in 1968, show Heaney alerting his audience to the violent history of colonisation on his native ground, but preoccupied also by the rhythms of life in a rural setting remembered from his childhood. He also, in a Wordsworthian manner, focuses upon the sources and resources of his own poetic voice and power." (Literary Encyclopedia) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Seamus Heaney. Death of a Naturalist. Faber & faber, London, 1966.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Faber & Faber, 1966. First UK Edition. Signed by the author without inscription and dated "23 . ii . 89" on flyleaf. Octavo; 57pp. Tan and salmon dust jacket with 18s net price intact; bound in green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Front free endpaper has been razored out and is lost, with a bit of a stub remaining, scars to flyleaf from blade, and some adhesive residue along gutter (possibly an excised bookplate, or perhaps a library plate, though the book shows no other institutional markings. Jacket rubbed along edges, corners, and spine ends with a couple shallow tears at folds and toning to back panel; expected fading to salmon portion of spine and adjacent on front. Boards rubbed along edges with a small and faded spot of brown staining to front and some stray smudging and soiling. "10 October '66" in pen at top corner of front pastedown, mostly obscured by flap, with a small spot of tape residue. Opens a bit easily between gatherings, but binding is holding soundly. Pages unmarked. Heaney's debut collection, which won the Cholmondeley Award, the Gregory Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Heaney Seamus. Death of a Naturalist. Faber & Faber, 1966.
Price: US$3877.03 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1st edition . 1st printing of Seamus Heaney's 1st commercially published book. Internally clean. Bound in green cloth with bright gilt lettering. Dust jacket complete with some sun fade and edge wear to the top of the spine. Minor edge wear and closed tear to the jacket and slight loss to the two top corners. Now in a protective plastic wrapper. First book by the future Nobel prize winner. SIGNED by Seamus Heaney at" Redland College" and dated 21st February 1972.
Seller: Zimnol Arts Books, Middx, United Kingdom
Heaney, Seamus. Death Of A Naturalist : Signed By The Author. Faber and Faber, 1966.
Price: US$5104.76 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The First UK printing published by Faber and Faber in 1966. The BOOK is in Very Good condition. Some fading with a little pushing at the spine ends. Light rubbing to the edges The book has a very slight lean. A little dustiness to the text block edges. Light spotting to the prelims and end papers with a little spotting and light handling marks to some of the pages. Some mild age related mustiness. The original WRAPPER is complete and is in Very Good condition. Some wear to the upper spine end with a little loss. A light vertical crease to the rear panel. A little rubbing with loss at the corners. The usual fading to the spine and adjacent front panel area with light rubbing to the folds in places. A couple of very small closed tears to the rear panel edges. Light toning and marking to the rear cover edges. The wrapper remains very presentable in the removable Brodart archival cover. The book has been signed (without dedication) and dated (20th March 1967) by Seamus Heaney to the front blank end paper. Housed in a custom green clamshell box with gilt lettering and decorated paper interior. Despite its issues, this copy remains a very presentable copy of the author's first commercially published collection of poetry with a very early dated signature of the Nobel Laureate. Although Heaney would not win the Nobel Prize in Literature until 1995, 'Death of a Naturalist' won the young poet notable awards, including the 'Somerset Maugham Award', the 'Cholmondeley Award', the 'Eric Gregory Award', and the 'Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize'. Increasingly scarce to find with such attributes. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.
Seller: Ashton Rare Books ABA : PBFA : ILAB, Market Harborough, United Kingdom
Heaney, Seamus. Death of a Naturalist.. Faber and Faber, London, 1966.
Price: US$12500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Heaney's first major published volume. Octavo, original green cloth with titles to the spine in gilt. Association copy, inscribed by the author to his aunt in a contemporary hand on the front free endpaper, "For Aunt Annie: who is content only with the right word. Love, Seamus." Additionally signed by Heaney in full on the title page. Fine in very good dust jacket with sunning to the pink portion of the spine and some overall wear. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Association copies of this caliber seldom enter the market. The Death of a Naturalist is the first regularly published book by the Nobel Prize-winning poet. It consists of 34 short poems and is largely concerned with childhood experiences and the formulation of adult identities, family relationships, and rural life. The collection begins with one of Heaney's best-known poems, "Digging", and includes the acclaimed "Death of a Naturalist."
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.