Rare Book & Collectors' Sale June 23rd, 24th & 25th 2026

100 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 774. A Corrected Response [Heaney (Seamus)] The Writers Directory, a typed general Letter addressed Dear Sir/ Madam, with cut-out biography attached of Seamus Heaney with m/ss notes, and corrections and additions. Unique. (1) €400 - €500 775. 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 - €300 776. Heaney (Seamus) An Post - Celebration Launch 27th September 2004, Noble Prize in Literature, hosted at the Gresham Hotel, inserted loosely a set of stamps Signed by Seamus Heaney, David Hammond and Lars Sjooblom (engraver) & other ephemera. Unusual Set. (1) €180 - €220 777. Heaney (Seamus) An Invocation [to Hugh MacDiarmid]. Bernard Stone, Turret Bookshop, September 1992, First Issue, single folded quarto sheet, laid paper, Signed by Heaney. With four further issues of the same, reset on foolscap (two on coloured paper), and two photocopies. Generally clean. As a collection. (1) [Brandes & Durkan AA35] €400 - €600 778. Heaney (Seamus) The Names of the Hare, large Bronzes by Barry Flanagan 1983- 1990, 12mo, Yorkshire 1992, Signed by Heaney, illus., ptd. wrappers. (1) [Brandes & Durkan D35] €120 - €180 779. Heaney (Seamus) Four TL (carbon copies, unsigned) to Heaney from the photographer Christopher Barker, 1980- 81, seeking to photograph him for a proposed book; with a Manuscript Signed postcard from Heaney in reply, also a manuscript Signed card thanking Barker for the photograph (not present), also mentioning Ted Hughes. As a collection. (1) €500 - €700 780. One of 225 Copies [Heaney (Seamus) & Others] Dovemarks on Stone, Poems for George Mackay Brown, 8vo, Babel 1996, Limited Edn. of 225 Signed by the Contributors, with photograph frontis, ptd. wrappers. Scarce. (1) [Brandes & Durkan B166] €250 - €320 781. Heaney (Seamus) Sweeney Astray, A section of photocopied typescript, pp. 1-41, with cover sheet stating ‘Approx. 1/3 of manuscript,’ with a photocopied page from a draft FSG [Farrar Straus Giroux] catalogue, loosely inserted in a plastic binder, in very good condition. The text appears to follow the Field Day First Edn., with minor spelling variations. (1) €200 - €300 782. Heaney (Seamus) A Keen for the Coins, 12mo, Hickey, N.C. (Lenoir-Rhyne College) 2002, Signed, illus. frontis, grey wrappers, embossed coin on front cover, hand sewn, in custom green cloth cover. Good copy. (1) [Brandes & Durkan - A82a] €500 - €600 783. 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 - €300 784. 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 - €250 785. Heaney (Seamus)et al The Twenty-Ninth Yeats International Summer School Sligo, 6th - 20th August 1958, 8vo Sligo 1988, Signed by Seamus Heaney, Evan Boland and Tom Paulin, ptd. wrappers. Scarce. (1) €200 - €300 786. All Signed by Heaney Heaney (Seamus) From the Back of the North Wind, 12mo, Warsaw 2000, Signed, blue printed wrappers; The Redress of Poetry, An Inaugural Lecture,... 24th October 1989, Oxford (Clarendon Press) 1910, Signed, blue printed wrappers; The Kenneth Allott Lectures, The Making of Music.., 8vo, Liverpool, (U.O.L.) 1978, First Edn., Signed, green ptd. wrappers. (3) [Brandes & Durkan A47] €350 - €420 774 783 787 786