RARE BOOK, LITERATURE & COLLECTORS’ SALE May 30th & 31st

126 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 867. Heaney (Seamus) Dangerous Pavements, Single sheet with col. illus. by Henry Pearson, 1994, One of 100 copies, Signed, scarce. Slightly marked. (1) €100 - €200 868. Heaney (Seamus) Verses for a Fordham Commencement, Fordham Univ., May 23, 1982, 4pp sm qto, lightly mounted, Signed at foot of first page and inscribed to ‘George, Sláinte! May 25th, 1982’. [‘George’ was George W. Conaty, an Irish- American criminal defence lawyer in New York, who shared a convivial flight to Dublin with the writer.] (1) €300 - €500 869. Signed by Four Poets (Seamus) The Four Elements, poems by Heaney, Laurie Lee, Lawrence Sail & Jennie Joseph, each with an engraving by Gwenda Morgan. Cheltenham 1991, Whittington, four sheets in a custom portfolio with engraving, each No. 42 of 125 Copies, Signed by Heaney and the other poets (each under his/her poem). Fine. (1) €180 - €250 870. Signed by Seamus Heaney Heaney (Seamus)trans . Hallaig - Somhairle MacGill - Eain, 8vo, Edinburgh (Lateral Line) 2002, Signed Limited Edition, with ticket loosely inserted for the ‘Edinburgh Book Festival 2002,’ ptd, wrappers. Scarce. (1) €200 - €300 871. Signed Limited Edition Heaney (Seamus) Commencement Address - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, May 12th, 1996, 8vo, Vermont (Stinehour Press) 1996, Signed Limited Edition No. 49 (500) Copies, ptd. wrappers; The Gravel Walks, 16mo, N.C. (Shadowy Waters Press) 1992, ptd. wrappers. Scarce. (2) €200 - €300 872. Signed by Seamus Heaney Heaney (Seamus) The Sounds of Rain, 8vo, N.C. (Shadowy Waters Press) 1988, Signed and dated, Limited Edition, ptd. blue wrappers, together with issuing envelope. Good copy. (1) €200 - €300 873. Signed Lettered Copy Heaney (Seamus) A Keen for the Coins, sm. 16mo, N.C. (Shadowy Waters Press) 2002, Signed, Lettered Q, frontis, marbled hand made paper wrappers, ptd. label. Scarce. (1) €350 - €500 867 871 & detail 872 868 873 870 & detail