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Price: US$103.37 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: UK paperback first impression from 1984. From the estate of author Alasdair Gray. He has written landscape poetry in his own hand to rear endpapers. Can provide photos. Good overall with ssome general wear to covers.
Seller: Hunter Books, Burnham, BUCKS, United Kingdom
Price: US$639.63 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Crown8vo, 123 p. Original black boards, gilt. A very fine copy in a very fine dust jacket priced at £5.95. First edition. Inscribed on the half-title 'Seamus Heaney 3/12/85 in Maynooth [underline]'. Note: in the first issue the front free endpaper is the half-title. The late Nobel Prize Winner's sixth separate collection of poetry. Inscribed copy without any other marks or blemishes. Brandes and Durkan A36.
Seller: JIRI Books, Lisburn, United Kingdom
HEANEY, Seamus. STATION ISLAND. London: Faber and Faber., 1984.
Price: US$710.69 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the Pentagram designed dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean without inscriptions or stamps. All copies of this edition were bound without a front endpaper with the half title facing the pastedown. The dustwrapper is in fine condition without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£5.95 net to the front flap) Signed and dated "June 1985" by Seamus Heaney on the title page. 'Station Island', Heaney's first volume after 'Field Work' (1979) is centred around its title sequence, "a sequence of dream encounters with familiar ghosts, set on Station Island on Lough Derg in Co. Donegal" (from Heaney's note). It stages a series of encounters with figures from the poet's own past, as well as encounters with earlier Irish writers, most notably William Carleton, Patrick Kavanagh and, at the end, James Joyce. The sequence, which owes much to Dante and frequently calls upon the Italian poet's trademark terza rima, is one of Heaney's greatest achievements. On either side of the title sequence are a section of lyrics and 'Sweeney Redivivus', a sequence in which the poet's voice once again (after the earlier 'Sweeney Astray' [1983]) merges with "the seventh-century Ulster king who was transformed into a bird-man and exiled to the trees by the curse of St Ronan." Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
Price: US$1663.53 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Station Island. London: Faber, 1984. Pp, 123. First Edition. A fine copy in dust jacket. Presentation copy, Inscribed by Seamus Heaney on the front free endpaper, and with three lines of verse from the poem 'Stone from Delphi' which appears on page 24. Heaney's first new collection of poems since 1979, is set on an island (Lough Derg) which has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years.
Seller: Ulysses Rare Books Ltd. ABA, ILAB, Dublin , Ireland