The Midnight Verdict by Heaney, Seamus - 1993

Gallery Books, 2001. Paperback. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Used - Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Oldcastle: Gallery Books, 2001. First Edition . Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket (Paperback). First edition in paperback, after a limited clothbound edition. 42 pp. Light handling and edge/corner wear to wrappers, rear wrapper corner creased. Size: 8vo

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Oldcastle Co Meath: Gallery Books, 2000. 8vo. Original pictorial card covers (softback) (Fine). Pp. 42 (no inscriptions).

Old Castle, County Meath, Ireland: Gallery Books, 2000. Paperback. Fine. 42 p. ; 22 cm. Paperback; cover illustration is the wood collage 'Winter' by Tony O'Malley. Photograph of the author and translator on the back cover by Karen O'Brien. Small label on back cover: U.S. distributor, Dufour Editions, Chester Springs, Pa. ISBN: 1852352825. Based on translations of Ovid's Metamorphoses and Brian Merriman's Cúirt an Mheán Oíche. Contents: Orpheus and Eurydice -- The Midnight Verdict -- The Death of Orpheus. Signed by the author on the half title page. In Fine Condition.

Loughcrew, Old Caste, County Meath: Gallery Books, 1993. A fine copy. 8vo. 42 pages. Original black cloth; printed dust jacket. First edition, one of 925 copies from an edition of 1000. Brandes & Durkan A55a (1000 total copies printed in cloth).

(Ireland):The Gallery Press, 1993. First Edition. hard cover. Fine/Fine. (Ireland):The Gallery Press. (1993). 42 pp. First edition. 1 of 925 unnumbered copies. Hardcover with dust jacket. Both book and dust jacket in fine condition. Interior is clean, bright and free of any stray markings.

Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, 1993. Three translations by the Irish Nobel laureate; two are from Ovid's "Metamorphoses" and one from the famous comic poem by Brian Merriman (1747-1805). This is a Near Fine copy of the First Edition, which was LIMITED to 1000 copies (75 signed copies reserved). A scarce title. Black cloth binding with gilt titling on the spine. Cleran text; 42 pages. The dustwrapper is unclipped, in an archival plastic protector. This is actually a Fine copy in like DW; unfortunately, it has possibly been dropped, bending the lower corner, which nows shows as a crease.. Limited. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Loughcrew, County Meath: The Gallery Press, 1993. First edition LIMITED to 1000 copies. 8vo, publisher's original black cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, and in the original dustjacket. 42pp. A beautiful copy, as mint and pristine but for one tiny unobtrusive bump. A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THIS LIMITED FIRST PRINTING OF ONLY 1000 COPIES. "The Midnight Verdict: Translations from the Irish of Brian Merriman (c.1745-1805) and from the Metamorphoses of Ovid Each of the translations in this book can be read for its own sake or as part of a triptych. By setting excerpts of Brian Merriman’s Cúirt an Mheán Oíche (The Midnight Court) within the acoustic of a classical myth (the story of Orpheus and Eurydice), Seamus Heaney provides a new and illuminating context for the eighteenth-century classic Irish poem. The idea of juxtaposing the three pieces came out of ‘a single impulse’, said the poet in his translator’s note. Each of the translations can be read for its own sake or as… Read More