Lot 330
Heaney (Seamus) Death of a Naturalist, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1966.
Hammer Price: £2,200
Description
Heaney (Seamus) Death of a Naturalist, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Dr Peter Rogers to front free endpaper, light tape marks to front free endpaper, original cloth, dust-jacket, tape marking to flaps, light surface soiling to lower panel, near-fine otherwise, [Brandes & Durkan A2a], 8vo, 1966.
⁂ Heaney's first commercially published collection of poetry, winner of the Somerset Maugham prize, scarce signed.
Reverend Canon Peter Rogers, a mentor of Heaney's and president of St. Joseph's Training College, Belfast while Heaney was a lecturer there (see also lot 328).
Description
Heaney (Seamus) Death of a Naturalist, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Dr Peter Rogers to front free endpaper, light tape marks to front free endpaper, original cloth, dust-jacket, tape marking to flaps, light surface soiling to lower panel, near-fine otherwise, [Brandes & Durkan A2a], 8vo, 1966.
⁂ Heaney's first commercially published collection of poetry, winner of the Somerset Maugham prize, scarce signed.
Reverend Canon Peter Rogers, a mentor of Heaney's and president of St. Joseph's Training College, Belfast while Heaney was a lecturer there (see also lot 328).