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

99 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 862. Heaney (Seamus) January God, card, Art Council 1972, illustrated by T.P. Flangan, Signed; The 1985 Francis Moloney Lecture, card, Boston 1985, Signed, and dated; 1985 PEN Literary Awards (Translation Prize for Heaney), card, Paris 1985, Signed & dated. (3) [Brandes & Durkan - A65, C406] €200 - €300 863. Heaney (Seamus) The Yellow Bittern, card, D. (Keough-Notre Dame Centre) 2002, Signed, illustrated by Caroline Moloney; Villanelle for an Anniversary, card, Harvard 1986, Signed. (2) [Brandes & Durkan - AA69, & AA15b] €150 - €180 864. Heaney (Seamus) The Child That’s Due: From Bann Valley Eclogue, card, [1999] Signed Limited Edn. NO. 7/20 copies; Ballynahinch Lake, card, Privately Printed 1999, Signed, Limited Edn. No. 95/500, with envelope; The Sound of Rain, 8vo, Shadowy Water Press 1988, Signed; Lettered Copy Q (Z) marbled wrappers, ptd. label, with envelope. (3) [Brandes & Durkan, AA62, A746, A436] €300 - €400 865. Heaney (Seamus) The Loose Box, 8vo N.Y., (Oliphant Press) 2001, Signed, Limited Edn. No. 7/101 Copies, blue wrappers, red & black text; Ballynahinch Castle, card, Privately Printed, 1999, Artists Copy - Signed, with corrections. (2) [Brandes & Durkan AA68 & A74] €150 - €200 866. One of 50 Copies Signed Heaney (Seamus) Boy Driving His Father to Confession, 8vo, Surrey (The Sceptre Press) 1970, Signed, Limited Edn. No. 47/50 Copies, printed cream wrappers, black text. (1) [Brandes & Durkan A7] €800 - €1000 867. Heaney (Seamus) The Villanelle of Northwest Orient Flight 4, card, Tokyo (Emerald Ball) 1993, Signed; The Gaeltacht, card (Notre Dame (Keogh Institute) 2002, Signed Limited Edn., No. 20/100 Copies, illustrated b y Eileen Ferguson, both good. (2) [Brandes & Durkan - AA36 & AA76] €180 - €220 868. With Inscription by Heaney Heaney (Seamus) Queens University Belfast - The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry , 8vo, Belfast (Optech) 2004, inscribed ‘Philip Chirp - Chipr from Beal Feirste - Seamus Heaney 16.II.04, illus. ptd. wrappers, good copy. (1) €180 - €220 869. Heaney (Seamus) Dangerous Pavements, card, published by the artist Henry Pearson No. 24/100 Copies, Signed by Heaney, typescript note on revere Signed by Pearson, The Strand, card, privately published (Gallery Press) 1995, illustrated by Felim Egan, Signed by Heaney, Limited Edn. 500 Copies. (2) [Brandes & Durkan AA196 & AA45] €180 - €220 870. Heaney (Seamus) A Skilled Poet (for William Alfred), card, Harrard (Bow & Arrow Press) 1999, Signed Limited Edn. No. 74/75 Copies, “For Alma Mater,” (on the occasion of the Launch of the Campaign for Queen’s) card, Belfast (Queen’s) n.d., Signed. Scarce. (2) [Brandes & Durkan AA60] €180 - €220 871. One of 100 Signed Copies Heaney (Seamus) & Newmann (M.) Audensque, 12mo Paris (Maeght Editeur) 1998, Signed Limited Edn. 89(100) Copies, illustrated, uncut, ptd. boards, green slip case. (1) [Brandes & Durkan A69] €350 - €420 865 871 866 864 869