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London : Chatto & Windus, 1971. First edition. Twenty-three poets aged under thirty-five — a fine anthology with biographical notes and some captivating period portrait photographs. Contributors include Stewart Conn (5 poems), Kevin Crossley-Holland (3), Peter Dale (4), Douglas Dunn (5), John Fuller (4), Ian Hamilton (4), Tony Harrison (4), a Beatle-cropped Seamus Heaney (5), Brian Jones (4), Angela Langfield (3), Michael Longley (4), Derek Mahon (5), Dom Moraes (5), Brian Patten (3), Jeremy Robson himself (4), Jon Stallworthy (5), Hugo Williams (4), and half a dozen others.
Post 8vo (22cm). 156pp. Plates. Portraits. Original violet boards, lettered in gilt; a couple of slight marks, but a very good copy in the pictorial dust-jacket — the jacket with a couple of short repaired tears at head, and another on the inside flap, but clean and complete and with only very minor further wear.

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Belfast : Ulsterman Publications, (1975). First edition. Twenty-one prose poems, including “Cauled”, “Hedge-School”, “Waterbabies”, “Incertus”, etc.
Demy 8vo (22cm). 24pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers – a portrait of Heaney in yellow and orange; faint corner crease to lower wrapper, but a very good copy of a fragile item.

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London : Faber & Faber, (1984). First edition. One of the most celebrated collections of poems of modern times – over forty poems from Heaney at the height of his powers. “Many of these poems have a tough rind as though the author knew for his purposes deferred comprehension was better than instant. Obliquity suits him. Heaney’s talent, a prodigious one, is exfoliating and augmenting here” (Richard Ellman).
Post 8vo (21cm). (124),[iv] – including integral endpapers. Original black boards, ruled and lettered in gilt; a few tiny spots to top edge, but otherwise a very good copy indeed – bright, clean and sound, in an equally unflawed dust-jacket.

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First edition. A fine selection of Heaney’s work, the selection made by Heaney himself from his ten earlier collections – well over 100 poems, with notes, etc.
Demy 8vo (23cm). x,(246)pp. Original cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt; a very good, clean and sound copy in the dust-jacket, which bears a portrait by Louis le Brocquy – the jacket with just a hint of rubbing to the extremities, but also very good.

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