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HEANEY (SEAMUS)
Eleven Poems, [1965]--LONGLEY (MICHAEL) Ten Poems, [1965]--MAHON (DEREK) Twelve Poems, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, Belfast, Festival Publications Queen's University; and 5 other "Festival Publications" by Joan Newmann, Philip Hobsbaum, James Simmons, Stewart Parker, and Laurence Lerner (8)

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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HEANEY (SEAMUS)

Eleven Poems, [1965]--LONGLEY (MICHAEL) Ten Poems, [1965]--MAHON (DEREK) Twelve Poems, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, light pencil markings by the first owner to 2 poems ("Scaffolding" and "Death of a Naturalist") in the Heaney volume, each printed on laid paper, publisher's stapled wrappers, with the sun device with nine "points" printed on the upper cover in purple, 8vo, Belfast, Festival Publications Queen's University; and 5 other "Festival Publications" by Joan Newmann, Philip Hobsbaum, James Simmons, Stewart Parker, and Laurence Lerner (8)

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SCARCE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF HEANEY'S FIRST PUBLISHED BOOK OF POEMS, together with those of both Michael Longley and Derek Mahon.

Provenance: Purchased by the current owner, a student at Queen's University, Belfast, (and an acquaintance of Michael Emmerson, instigator of the series), at the time of publication in 1965.

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