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Door into the Dark
by HEANEY, Seamus
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HIS SECOND MAJOR COLLECTION INSCRIBED
first edition, first impression tall 8vo. 56pp., black cloth, spine gilt lettered, light fox spot at fore edge of half-title & title leaves, else a nice copy in a nice dust jacket (with just a hint of foxing).
Inscribed "Seamus Heaney/ 23rd December 1969" on title page and with a further non-authorial presentation inscription dated "Christmas 1969" on a preliminary blank (not the endpaper but the blank leaf following that).
Brandes & Durkan A5 His second major collection
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Details
- Bookseller
- P & B Rowan
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 56501
- Title
- Door into the Dark
- Author
- HEANEY, Seamus
- Format/Binding
- Original cloth
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1969
- Size
- 8vo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- literature ireland irish poetry inscribed
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About the Seller
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About P & B Rowan
Founded in 1973 P. & B. Rowan is a husband and wife team working from private premises and specializing in books and manuscripts on Ireland, Irish History & Culture, History of Ideas (including the Sciences, Medicine, Economics, Philosophy, etc), Travels and Rare Books in all fields.
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- Leaves
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