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HEANEY Seamus. The Spirit Level. , 1996.
Price: US$139.71 + shipping
Description: Fifth printing of the paperback edition. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. London, Faber and Faber. Signed by the author in black ink on the title page. A fine copy with a Whitbread Poetry Award sticker to front cover.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$166.88 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Paperback signed by the author, in very good condition. Theatre ticket stub laid in. Covers are slightly scuffed and scored, and page block is lightly tanned. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
Heaney, Seamus. The Spirit Level.. Faber and Faber, London - Boston., 1996.
Price: US$215.21 + shipping
Description: p.p. 4 - 70 - 1. Fine pictorial wrps. Signed -Seamus Heaney April 1998.
Seller: Healy Rare Books, Galway, Ireland
Heaney, Seamus. The Spirit Level. Faber & Faber, London, 1996.
Price: US$230.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Signed by the author on the title-page.
Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller , Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition, preceded by the First UK Edition published by Faber and Faber in 1995. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Fine in a Fine dust jacket.
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Heaney, Seamus. The Spirit Level. Faber & Faber, London, 1996.
Price: US$695.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine hardcover book in fine slipcase. First edition, first printing. This is Number 131 of the signed, limited Faber & Faber hardcover edition, of which 350 copies were available for sale. Signed by Seamus Heaney on the colophon page. PLEASE NOTE: the ABE Stock Image shows the dust-jacket for the standard hardcover edition; this limited edition was published without a dust-jacket, but with a slipcase.
Seller: Magnolia Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
HEANEY Seamus. The Spirit Level. , 1996.
Price: US$814.98 + shipping
Description: First edition, number 147 of 350 copies signed by the author. 8vo. Original quarter black cloth with charcoal grey paper covered boards, printed paper label on spine, original slipcase. London, Faber and Faber. A fine copy in matching slipcase of the signed limited edition.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Heaney Seamus. THE SPIRIT LEVEL. London Faber and Faber 1996, 1996.
Price: US$1265.00 + shipping
Description: LIMITED SIGNED FIRST EDITION, one of only 350 copies signed by the poet/author on the limitation page. 8vo, publisher's original charcoal paper-covered boards backed in black cloth, the spine with a printed paper label, in the gray and black slipcase and still sealed in the publisher's shrink-wrap. 70 pp. A perfect copy, entirely as new and still in the publisher's sealed shrink-wrap. A better copy is unimaginable. A PERFECT COPY OF THIS AUTHOR SIGNED LIMITED EDITION OF ONLY 350 COPIES. THE SPIRIT LEVEL was Heaney's first collection to be published after winning the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. It won the 1996 Poetry Prize at the Whitbread Awards and contains over 40 poems.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.