Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
HEANEY, Seamus. Station Island. Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 1985.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Second printing of the American edition. Slight bump at foot and small smudge on front board, else near fine in fine dustwrapper. Warmly Inscribed by the author to an American poet: "To Dan Hoffman - at the poetry station in Philadelphia - with warm regard for your work. Seamus Heaney 27-ii-87."
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Seamus Heaney [signed]. Station Island [signed]. Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1985.
Price: US$245.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover with DJ. Green cloth spine and cream colored paper over boards. DJ still glossy and clean, but spine is faded a tone or two off the tan color of the covers (from sunlight). Binding good and tight and clean. No date on title page. Copyright page states Second Printing, 1985. 123 pages. Signed on the title page by Heaney, with the date below. 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. Station Island [signed]. Farrar Straus Giroux. NY, 1985.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover with DJ. Green cloth spine and manila paper over boards. Gold lettering on the spine. Pictorial DJ, sunned on the spine. 123 pages. Overall very good condition. Futon flap of DJ is price-clipped. No date on the title page. Copyright page dated only 1985. Signed on the title page by Seamus Heaney, and dated 12.iii.88. Please email with questions or to request photos.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Seamus Heaney. Station Island. Farrar Straus & Giroux January 1985, 1985.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page. 'Seamus Heaney/ May 1990/ in the 'Y'.' Front end page browned, bookplate affixed. Light wear, minor fading to dust jacket. Liquid damage to green cloth spine has 'bleed' into inner dust jacket at lower spine. Top edges foxed, dusty. Still attractive, despite it all.
Seller: Copperfield's Used and Rare Books, Petaluma, CA, U.S.A.
Heaney, Seamus. STATION ISLAND. Farrar Straus Giroux, NY, 1985.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First US edition, first prnt. Signed by Heaney on the front free endpage. Cloth spine ends toned; dustjacket with price-clip and tiny chip on the spine topedge. Tight copy in Near Fine condition in a Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover.
Seller: REVERE BOOKS, abaa/ilab & ioba, Fernandina Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Heaney, Seamus. Station Island. Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York, 1985.
Price: US$376.68 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo. First American edition. Quarter gilt lettered green cloth over pale yellow boards in pictorial dust jacket. Inscribed to Greg Gatenby on the title page "For Greg with gratitude for a great welcome to the Harbourfront Seamus 18/3/86" Gatenby, the director of the Harbourfront Reading Series, has his ownership signature on the front endpaper. Fine copy.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Heaney, Seamus. Station Island. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1985.
Price: US$425.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 123pp.; HB quarter-bound; beige&green w/gilt; bk.endpaper tanned; fine condition w/clean,tight pgs. DJ brwn.w/white,blk.&red; slight rub w/spine sunned. "Station Island is a book of extraordinary sweep, at once stern and enhanching, and will consolidate Seamus Heaney's achievement as a poet who has constantly "rent/the veil of the usual." " signed. dust jacket number on bk.cover: 0185/1145 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Xochi's Bookstore & Gallery, truth or consequences, NM, U.S.A.
Heaney, Seamus. STATION ISLAND. Farrar Straus Giroux, NY, 1985.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First US edition, first prnt. Signed and dated "1.2.87" by Heaney on the title page. Slightest rub in the cloth spine ends; otherwise, in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Heaney's sixth collection of poems.
Seller: REVERE BOOKS, abaa/ilab & ioba, Fernandina Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Heaney, Seamus.. Station Island. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1985.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First American edition. SIGNED & dated in 1999 by Seamus Heaney on front end-paper. Fine in fine dust jacket. Lovely copy without the discoloration at spine endemic to this title. ; 5 3/4" x 8 1/2"; 123 pages 374269785
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.