Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Softcover. White covers (still somewhat glossy) with orange and black lettering. No date on the title page. Copyright states Second Printing, 1981. 224 pages. Binding good and tight and clean. Signed by Heaney on the half title page, dated May 1985. No inscription, just his name. Please email with questions or to request photos. If a photograph pops up beside my listing, please be aware that it's a "stock photo" (whatever that means) added by ABE & not this actual copy of the book.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Heaney, Seamus. Preoccupations: Selected prose, 1968-1978. Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1980.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American Edition signed and dated by author on front flyleaf. Previous owner's initials on same page. Faint yellow streaks on either side of the front and rear hinges, probably due to the aging of the binding glue. Some foxing to the top edge of the text block. Short, closed tear at top left edge on front of dust jacket. Small wrinkle at spine head. Teeny chip out of bottom right edge on front of jacket. Small tear at lower corner of jacket on the back. Tiny brown spot in upper left corner of jacket on back. Jacket spine a little yellowed. Jacket now in paper backed mylar.
Seller: Avol's Books LLC, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Seamus Heaney. Preoccupations. Selected Prose, 1968 - 1978.. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1980.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper. Dust Jacket is in a removable clear plastic (Brodart) protector, pages are clean.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
HEANEY, SEAMUS. Preoccupations: Selected Prose 1968-1978. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1980.
Price: US$376.68 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo. Rust coloured boards with gilt and black title label to spine. Wrapped in decorative dust jacket. Inscribed to Greg Gatenby on the front endpaper "Greg : The bat that flits at close of eve, Has left the brain that won't believe. Seamus Heaney March 1986" Gatenby, the director of the Harbourfront Reading Series, has his ownership signature on the front endpaper. Some minor soiling but o/w a fine copy.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Heaney, Seamus. Preoccupations: Selected Prose, 1968-1978. NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1980.
Price: US$392.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine hardcover in a Near Fine dj (tiny 1/8" tear to lower left corner of front dj flap). Signed by the author on the title page. First Edition, First Printing. Review copy with review slip laid in. A nice copy - clean text, tight binding, and a clean and bright dj. Please note that, due to value of the book, required postal insurance will be extra.
Seller: Peter Lenz Bookseller, Cohoes, NY, U.S.A.