Rare Book & Collectors' Sale 1st & 2nd October 2025

101 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 881. Heaney (Seamus) Sweeney Astray, A section of photocopied typescript, pp. 1-41, with cover sheet stating ‘Approx. 1/3 of manuscript,’ with a photocopied page from a draft FSG [Farrar Straus Giroux] catalogue, loosely inserted in a plastic binder, in very good condition. The text appears to follow the Field Day First Edn., with minor spelling variations. (1) €200 - €300 879. Heaney (Seamus) The Otter, [poem], Typescript (Carbon copy), Signed by Heaney, with an unpublished final verse deleted by him, with a set of proofs for the Hand And Eye anthology (privately printed, Tragara Press 1977) in which this poem appeared [without the deleted final verse], Heaney’s proof with a correction in his hand; also with an autograph postcard from Heaney to the editor Geoffrey Elborn thanking him for the book. The entire neatly stored in a handmade brown card folder titled in manuscript. The Anthology, dedicated to Sacheverell Sitwell, also included poems by Samuel Beckett, John Betjeman, Stephen Spender, etc. (1) €1000 - €1500 880. Heaney (Seamus) Keeping Going, William B. Ewert 1993, uncorrected proofs, 7pp folio, on heavy paper, section titles inserted in m/ss by the publisher, Signed at rear by Heaney dated 30 April 1993 (the date on which they were pulled), also Signed at head by publisher. Stapled, single fold, clean. One of 7 Sets of Proofs for a First Edn., of 250 Copies, Bow & Arrow Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1993, to mark the 60th anniversary of Adams House at Harvard, and the 15th anniversary of the Bow & Arrow Press (see note by Heaney). Attractive item. (1) [Brands & Durkan A56] €600 - €800 882. Heaney (Seamus) Four TL (carbon copies, unsigned) to Heaney from the photographer Christopher Barker, 1980-81, seeking to photograph him for a proposed book; with a manuscript Signed Postcard from Heaney in reply, also a manuscript Signed Card thanking Barker for the photograph (not present), also mentioning Ted Hughes. As a collection. (1) €500 - €700 883. Heaney (Seamus) An Invocation [to Hugh MacDiarmid]. Bernard Stone, Turret Bookshop, September 1992, First Issue, single folded quarto sheet, laid paper, Signed by Heaney. With four further issues of the same, reset on foolscap (two on coloured paper), and two photocopies. Generally clean. As a collection. (1) [Brandes & Durkan AA35] €400 - €600