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

130 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 718. Heaney (Seamus). ALS to the poet and journalist John Boland, 1pp quarto, on plain paper addressed from Glanmore Cottage in Wicklow, 31 August 1972, inviting him to submit work (preferably new) for an anthology Heaney is editing, to be titled ‘Soundings 72’. Framed with a colour Portrait of Heaney (from a book cover). (1) €400 - €600 721. [Heaney (Seamus)] An original black and white Press Photograph of Seamus Heaney standing at a pulpit with robes, mounted inset with original manuscript signature, Signed and dated ‘Seamus Heaney 16.XI.95.’ (1) €200 - €300 722. Heaney (Seamus) The Yellow Bitteen, broadside, D. (National Print Museum) 2006, designed by Anne Brady, printed by hand on mould-made paper by Con. Devlin, single sheet. Good Copy. (1) €150 - €200 721 720. Heaney (Seamus). Friends of the Cheltenham Festival of Literature. The Four Elements. The Fire Gaze. Broadside. No. 50 of 125 copies Signed by Heaney. 1989. Also an out of sequence copy Signed by Heaney. The Water Pause, no. 50 of 125 copies Signed by Heaney. 1991. Another copy, same, no. 117. The Air Station. No. 50 of 125 copies Signed by Heaney, n.d. Also another copy, no. 66. The Earth House. No. 50 of 125 copies Signed by Heaney, n.d. A Sense of Place, by P.J. Kavanagh. No 34 of 125 copies Signed by Kavanagh. Each in a printed folder, fine copies, 8 in all. A good collection including a full set of the Heaney broadsides with some extras. Housed in a large sturdy portfolio. €600 - €800 718 719. POEM-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB Complete set of 48 broadside printed Poems by Seamus Heaney, Philip Larkin, Robert Graves, Stevie Smith, C. Day Lewis, Roy Fuller, Stephen Spender, Peter Porter, W. H. Auden, George Barker, Thom Gunn, Alan Brownjohn, Gavin Ewart, Ruthben Todd, Elizabeth Jennings and Derek Mahon, and 33 others, Poem-of-the-Month Club, 1970-77, each sheet 380 x 285mm, Each Poem Signed. Preserved in publisher’s half calf portfolios. (1) €500 - €700