HEANEY, Seamus, Sol Lewitt. Squarings. A Sequence of Forty-Eight Poems by Seamus Heaney with Forty-Eight Drawings by Sol Lewitt and with an Introduction by Helen Vendler. The Arion Press, San Francisco, 2003.

Price: US$2250.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First edition. Forty-eight drawings by Sol LeWitt. Introduction by Helen Vendler. Squarish large octavo. 126pp. Gray cloth. Fine in fine publisher's cloth slipcase box. One of 400 numbered copies Signed by Heaney and Lewitt. *Squarings* was originally published as a collection of twelve poems, with four illustrations by Felim Egan, published in Dublin in 1991; this collection consists of forty-eight poems by Seamus Heaney, with forty-eight illustrations by Sol LeWitt.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Heaney, Seamus.. Squarings. A Sequence of Forty-Eight Poems by Seamus Heaney with Forty-Eight Drawings by Sol Lewitt and with an Introduction by Helen Vendler.. The Arion Press, San Francisco, 2003.

Price: US$2250.00 + shipping

Condition: As New

Description: Originally published in the poet's earlier trade collection Seeing Things [Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991], Squarings is a long sequential poem in 48 parts. Issued as the 67th publication of the Arion Press, as a fine press livre d'artiste, limited to 426 copies (400 for sale), of which this is #78, printed letterpress on special paper untrimmed at fore- and bottom edges, bound in light grey cloth stamped in black, without jacket (as issued), in publisher's medium grey cloth slipcase, SIGNED by Heaney and Lewitt on the Colophon leaf. A Very Fine copy, as new, in a Very Fine slipcase. Unpaginated, with a larger than usual typeface. Aside from the choice of Vendler's essay, the book is among the most coveted of the Arion Press productions, and copies seldom reach the used market. Q08977

Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.

Heaney, Seamus. Squarings: a sequence of forty-eight poems by Seamus Heaney. With forty-eight drawings by Sol LeWitt. And with an introduction by Helen Vendler. The Arion Press, San Francisco, 2003.

Price: US$2250.00 + shipping

Description: First edition, #80 of 400 numbered copies, signed by Seamus Heaney and Sol Lewitt. Illustrated by Sol LeWitt. 126pp. Designed and printed by Andrew Hoyem. 4to. Heaney's poetry in a fine edition with LeWitt's conceptual drawings. Also present is the publisher's seven-page prospectus for Squarings, which prints poem "XLVIII," Seamus Heaney's final poem in the book, nicely printed on mould-made Italian paper. Seamus Heaney won the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Brandes & Durkan A51c Gray pictorial cloth. A fine copy in fine publisher's cloth slipcase box, with prospectus is included Illustrated by Sol LeWitt. 126pp. Designed and printed by Andrew Hoyem. 4to First edition, #80 of 400 numbered copies, signed by Seamus Heaney and Sol Lewitt.

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Arion Press - Heaney, Seamus with Illustrations by Sol Lewitt. Squarings (Signed Limited Edition); A Sequence of Forty-Eight Poems by Seamus Heaney with Forty-Eight Drawings by Sol Lewitt and with an Introduction by Helen Vendler. Arion Press, San Francisco, 2003.

Price: US$2500.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Square clothbound volume in decorated cloth-covered slipcase. Publisher prospectus laid in. First edition thus. One of four hundred hand-numbered copies SIGNED BY BOTH HEANEY AND SOL LEWITT. 126 pp. Handset in 24-point Deepdene type, produced in 1927-28 by Frederic W. Goudy. 48 poems by Heaney each occupying a square area, the same size as the six-inch square drawings opposite. A gorgeous fine copy. Among the most sought after of fine press limited editions produced by the Arion Press.

Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.