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

98 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 852. One of 175 Signed Copies Heaney (Seamus) The Gravel Walks, 12mo North Carolina (Lenoir Rhyne College) 1992, Signed Limited Edn. No. 23/175 Copies; ptd. grey wrappers, black lettering. (1) [Brandes & Durkan - A52a] €350 - €420 853. Signed Lettered Copy Heaney (Seamus) The Gravel Walks, 12mo, North Carolina (Lenoir-Rhyne College) 1992, Lettered Copy V (Z), Signed, marble wrappers, ptd. label. Good copy. (1) €600 - €800 854. Heaney (S.) A Shiver, 8vo Thame (Clutay Press) 2005, First UK Edn., No. 98 (300) Copies, printed wrappers. Good copy. (1) €150 - €200 855. Heaney (Seamus) Miracle, card, Privately Printed (Gallery Press), Signed & Inscribed (Limited Edn.), illustrated; The Child that’s Due (From Bann Valley), card, 2000, signed & dated. (2) €180 - €250 856. Heaney (Seamus) I Sing of a Maiden, card, privately printed (Gallery Press) 2003, Signed & inscribed illustrated by Catherine Heany; Would they had Stay’d, card, privately printed (Gallery Press) 1997, Signed, illustrated; The Manager, Privately Printed (Gallery Press) 1998, Signed illustrated by Basil Blackshaw, as a lot. (3) [Bandes & Durkan - AA77, AA54, AA59] €200 - €300 857. Heaney (Seamus) Poetry International Rotterdam - Rotterdamse Kunststichting - Poetry 85, lg. 4to, Rotterdam 1985, Signed and Inscribed, ptd. wrappers. Scarce. (1) [Poems included are “ Station Island,” “The Railway Children,” “ Sloe Gin,” “ Drifting Off, ” “the Scribes.” ] €180 - €250 858. Heaney (Seamus) Crediting Poetry - The Nobel Lecture, 8vo, Privately Printed (Faber & Faber) 1995, Signed, Limited Edn. of 500 Copies, green wrappers, black & white text; Crediting Poetry, 8vo, Gallery Press 1995, First Edn., ptd. wrappers; also uncorrected Proof, N.Y. (F.S.G.) 1995, orange wrappers. (3) [Brandes & Durkan - A64a & b] €250 - €320 859. Heaney (Seamus) Reading in Contemporary Poetry, Number 4 - Seamus Heaney, 8vo N.Y. (Dia Art Foundation) 1988, Signed, ptd. wrappers; Seamus Heaney Versei, 8vo Budapest (Europa Konyvkiado) 1980, Signed, ptd. wrappers; Three Stanzas ; 8vo, Philadelphia 1995, illus., ptd. wrappers. (3) €200 - €300 860. Heaney (Seamus) Extending the Alphabet, on Christopher Marlowe’s - Hero and Leander, (The Pratt Lecture 1993) 8vo, Newfoundland 1994, Signed, decor wrappers; [Norwich (J.J.)] A Christmas Cracker - being a Commonplace Selection, 8vo 1998, Contribution by Seamus Heaney - ‘Blackberry Picking,’ Signed, ptd. wrappers. (2) [Brandes & Durkan - A58] €150 - €200 861. Heaney (Seamus) A Hazel Stick for Catherine Ann, card, Privately Printed 1983, Signed and Inscribed, purple wrappers, black lettering; The Sounds of Rain, 8vo Shadowy Waters Press 1988, blue wrappers, ptd. label (with envelope); Charles Montgomery Monteith, Addressed delivered at the Memorial Service.. by Seamus Heaney, 8vo, M95, Signed, ptd. wrappers. (3) [Brands & Durkan - AA13] €200 - €300 853 854 857 861 858