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

105 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 890. Heaney (Seamus) A Drink of Water, Typescript draft, 1pp, on lightweight A4 typing paper, with a manuscript amendment in Heaney’s hand and a deletion of a section of nine lines. Neatly held in a custom made folding clamshell box, green cloth, morocco gilt title label on upper cover. First book publication in Field Work, 1979, in amended form, without the deleted lines. €600 - €800 891. Heaney (Seamus) The Underground , single page on ‘Folger Poetry Programs 1984-85’ paper, inscribed at end ‘Louis- this was done in Washington in May 1985, Seamus’ (Seamus Heaney), in blue pen, housed in custom made clam shell box. Rare Association Item. (1) Note: In this Poem, Heaney recalls and dramatizes an incident from his Honeymoon in London, dissolving a panic rush into a version of the story of Orpheus & Eurydice. €1000 - €1500 892. Heaney (Seamus) The Spoonbait, early typescript draft on a single A4 sheet, ten lines and title, with manuscript corrections by Heaney, inscribed in Heaney’s hand ‘ For Louis [Louis T. Walsh] / an early draft of “The Spoonbait” which appeared in Hailstones, December 1984;’ Neatly held in a custom made folding clamshell box, green cloth, morocco gilt title label on upper cover. (1) €1000 - €1500 893. Heaney (Seamus) Dangerous Pavements, card, Gallery Press [1987], with manuscript transcript, Signed and dated, framed. (1) €400 - €600 890 891 892 893