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

97 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 841. Signed Limited Editions of 100 Copies Heaney (Seamus) & Pearson (H.) illus. The Riverbed,... illustrated card, Limited Edn. No. 7/100 Copies, Signed by Heaney, inscription on reverse from Pearson, Look Far, illustrated card, Limited Edn. No. 33/100 Copies, Signed by Heaney. (2) [Brandes & Durkan - AA37 & AA39] €200 - €300 842. Heaney (Seamus) The Loose Box, 8vo, N.Y. (Oliphant Press) 2001, Artists Copy, No. 11/19, Signed by Heaney, folded grey paper, red & black lettered title; The Clothes Shrine, 8vo Banholt (Bonnefant Press) 2000, 1/100 copies Signed, folded wrappers, both good copies. (2) [Brandes & Durkan AA68 & AA64] €250 - €320 843. Heaney (Seamus) Tollund, 8vo Gallery Press, 1994, Limited Edn. of 125 Copies, Signed, folding card, Michael J. Durkan 1925-1996, 8vo, Swarthmore College (Aralia Press) 1996, Limited Edn., Signed by Heaney and Paul Muldoon, folded card. (2) [Brandes & Durkan - AA42 & B167] €150 - €220 844. Heaney (Seamus) Holly, 8vo Privately Printed by Peter Fallon (Gallery Press) 1981, Inscribed & Signed, green wrappers, black lettering; A Transgression, 8vo Privately Printed by Peter Fallon (Gallery Press) 1991, Signed Limited Edn. of 125 Copies. (2) [Brandes & Durkan AA9 & AA31] €150 - €220 845. Heaney (Seamus) Spelling it Out, 8vo, Gallery Press 2009, ptd. wrappers; Dangerous Pavements, card, Gallery Press 1987, Signed & dated; At the Hillhead, card, Gallery Press 2000, Signed, all good. (3) [Brandes & Durkan - AA19 & AA65] €200 - €300 846. Signed by Heaney and Kinsella [Abbey Theatre] Poets’ Offering, 8vo, D. (Dolmen Press) 1968, Signed by Heaney & Kinsella on front cover [Heaney’s Contribution was ‘Requiem for the Croppies’], ptd. wrappers. (1) [Brandes & Durkan - D3] €150 - €200 847. Both Inscribed by the Author Heaney (Seamus) Changes, 8vo, Privately Printed, inscribed to ‘Louis T. Walsh - Seamus Heaney December 1983,’ olive green wrappers, black text title front cover, good copy; Sweeney and the Saint, 8vo, Loughcrew 1982, 25 Copies only, inscribed, orange wrappers, black text title. Good copy. (2) [Brandes & Durkan AA8 & AA11] €200 - €300 848. Heaney (Seamus) Robert Lowell, A Memorial Address and An Elegy, 8vo L. (Faber & Faber) 1978, Signed, grey wrappers, black lettering; Speranza in Reading on The Ballad of Reading Gaol, 8vo, Tasmania 1994, blue wrappers, black lettering. Scarce. (2) [Brandes & Durkan A16 & N.P.] €300 - €400 849. Limited Edition Signed by the Author Heaney (Seamus) Commencement Address - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, May 12th, 1996, 8vo Signed, Limited Edn. No. 208(500), grey wrappers, black lettering. Good copy. (1) [Brandes & Durkan A66] €200 - €300 850. One of 200 Signed Copies Heaney (Seamus)trans. Hallaig - Somhairle Mac Gill Eain, 8vo Lateral Line 2002, Signed Limited Edn. 200 copies, green wrappers, black lettering. Good Copy. (1) [Brandes & Durkan - A80] €200 - €300 851. One of 10 Artists Copies Heaney (Seamus) The Gravel Walks, sm. 4to Lenoir & Rhyne College (Shadowy Water Press) 1992, No. 9(10) Artists Copies, Signed by Seamus Heaney, unbound. Scarce. (1) [Brandes & Durkan A52b (note)] €500 - €700 841 848 846 850 851 847