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

127 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 874. Signed by Heaney and Hammond Heaney (Seamus) Something to Write Home About, a Meditation for Television, 8vo, Belfast (Nicholson & Bass) 2001, Signed Limited Edition No. 36 (50) Copies, illus. by Basil Blackshaw, ptd. wrappers. (1) €300 - €400 875. Heaney (Seamus) I Sing of a Maiden, card, Meath (The Gallery Press) 2003, Signed, illus. by Catherine Heaney, Scarce; Ballynahinch Lake, ptd. card, Privately Printed 1999, Limited Edition No. 160 (500) Copies. Scarce. (2) €250 - €320 876. One of 101 Copies Heaney (Seamus) The Loose Box, 8vo, N.Y. (The Oliphant Press) n.d., No. 61 (101) Copies, ptd. wrappers; In their Element, 4to, Belfast (Dorman & Sons) 1977, illus. ptd. wrappers; Gravities, oblong 4to, Newcastle (Charlotte Press) 1979, illus., ptd. wrappers. (3) €200 - €300 877. One of 110 Copies Heaney (Seamus) Sweeney Praises the Trees, 8vo, N.Y. (Kelly / Winterton Press) 1981, Limited Edn. 103 / 110 Copies, illustrated by Henry Pearson, ptd. wrappers, with envelope Signed by Seamus Heaney. (1) €200 - €300 878. Heaney (Seamus) Robert Lowell [address and elegy], Faber 1978, Privately Printed. Scarce; Among Schoolchildren, John Malone Memorial Committee 1983 , wrappers; the same, Q.U.B. 1984, wrappers; An Upstairs Outlook , Poems by Heaney & Michael Longley, Linenhall 1989, wrappers; and three more, various, pamphlets, all VG. (as a lot) €100 - €200 879. Signed by the Contributors [Cheltenham Festival of Literature] The Four Elements: * The Fire Gaze,(Seamus Heaney) * First Spring Dawn, (Jenny Joseph) * The Three Winds, (Laurie Lee) and * Water, (Lawrence Sail), each Signed by the Author, illustrated by Hellmuth Weissenborn, No. 116 (125) Copies, loose, housed in brown pocket, ptd. label. (1) €300 - €400 880. One of 100 Signed Copies Heaney (Seamus) Mint, broadside, Mass. (Firefly Press) 1991, Signed Limited Edition No. 42 (100) Copies, illustrated by Mary Azarian. Scarce. (1) €300 - €400 881. Heaney (Seamus) Iron Spike (broadside poem). 1992, New Hampshire, single sheet folio, with vignette by Gino Lee, One of 100 copies ‘Signed by the Author’ [but this copy NOT signed]. With a covering letter (2006) from the printer John Kristensen of Firefly Press; together with Mint, Broadside poem, with engraving, single sheet folio, No. 2 of 100 Copies, Firefly Press, Massachusetts, 1991, Signed and inscribed by Heaney to ‘ Don and Jane’ , 12.v.91. Fine copy. (2) €300 - €400 882. Heaney (Seamus) Stern (broadside poem), in memory of Ted Hughes, Woolmer, Pennsylvania, No. 11 of 50 copies, Signed; together with Heaney (Seamus) & Stratis Havarias Castalian Spring / Loose for a Little While, One poem by each Author, each Signed, single sheet c. 11 ins x 15 ins, Bow & Arrow, 2000, letter T of 26 lettered Signed Copies. Both fine. Scarce. (2) €300 - €400 874 880 875 882 877