Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers RARE BOOK & COLLECTORS SALE 6th & 7th, December 2022

129 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 713. Heaney (Seamus) An Upstairs Outlook, 8vo Belfast 1989. First Edn., Signed; Agenda - Seamus Heaney Fiftieth Birthday Issue, 8vo Lond. 1989. Signed, 9.XI.89; In their Element, 4to Belfast 1977. First Edn.; An Open Letter, Belfast 1983. Field Day Pamphlet No. 2 First Edn.; Room to Rhyme, 4to Belfast 1968. First Edn.; & Field Day Pamphlets, No. 7, 8, & 9. All orig. ptd. wrappers. (8) €150 - €200 714. One of 150 Copies Only Heaney (Seamus) & O’Neill (T.) Columcille The Scribe, single m/ss on vellum, D. (R.I.A.) 2004, Signed Limited Edition No. 12 (15) copies, presented in oatmeal custom made binding. Clean copy. Scarce. (1) €500 - €600 715. Heaney (Seamus) January God, broadside, single page, Belfast (N.I. Arts Council) 1972, Signed and dated 8.X.II.’86, with illustrated T.P. Flanagan. Scarce. (1) €180 - €220 717. One of 125 Copies Heaney (Seamus) The Comet at Lullwafer for B.U. and Joan Chase, broadside Atlanta (Emory University) 2003, Limited Edn., of 125 Signed by the Poet, woodcut by Gary Young. Clean Copy. (1) €200 - €300 716. Seamus Heaney. Manuscript - Celtic Art: An Introduction, Ian Finlay. Single foolscap page, hand written critique by Seamus Heaney of the above volume: “It is one of the problems of trying to clarify the study of Celtic Art ... attracts the attention of sentimentalists and find itself linked with causes from Jacobitism to Art Nouveau. The Ossianic mists will never disperse ...”; Also included is part of a typed critique by Heaney of another book, one page: “It’s an examination of the history and origin of words associated with nature, words associated with the earth and its processes and seasons, names of birds, beasts, flowers, plants, insects .. Namegiving is one of the archetypal roles played by Adam... The story Genesis is short and resonant ...”; Also included are two postcards from Seamus Heaney to Kieran Sheedy, one from Detroit re documentary on John Field, Composer:”; Off to Philadelphia, not in the morning but in 10 minutes ... Hope Field was all right in the end ... “; The second postcard is from Dublin (1976) concerning documentary about the troubled first production of O’Casey’s play ‘The Plough and the Stars’; in 1926: “both Marie and I wanted to say how excellent - historical, perfect, unrepeatable we thought the O’Casey documentary to be ... “. Together with a Proof Copy of Patrick Piggott’s book The Life and Music of John Field, 1782 - 1837, with scoring and correction possibly by Heaney. Provenance: Mr. Kieran Sheedy. In the early 1970’s Seamus Heaney presented an R.T.E. radio book programme “Imprint”which was produced by K. Sheedy. They also broadcast a few radio documentaries, together, including one on composer John Field. Interesting collection. (1) €1000 - €1500 713 717 714 715