Door Into the Dark

London: Faber & Faber, 1969. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Bound in black cloth with gilt spine lettering. In original, unclipped, dust jacket. Very fine copy; clean and bright, no marks or inscriptions. Dust jacket with light creasing and 2 small tears. 56 pp. .

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"… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber LTD, 1969. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed. 9" by 5.5". None. A superb copy of the second major poetry collection of the Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney, a lovely copy of this sought after work. The first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.'Door Into the Dark' is the second major… Read more about this item

New York: Oxford University Press, 1969. Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney’s Door Into the Dark focuses on his native Ireland, and especially the rural people, and their work. "Heaney has the gift of finding a new and consummate phrase to evoke physical qualities, and when these take on symbolic resonance the result is superb. . . . [This] collection as… Read more about this item

New York: Oxford University Press, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First American edition. Bowed boards thus very good in a very good dust jacket with toning and rubbing.

London: Faber and Faber Ltd 1969. Small 8vo. 1969 reprint (same year as first edition). 56 pp. Paperback. Minimal marks and wear to edge. Internally clean and bright. The second main collection of Seamus Heaney. . Very Good. Paperback. Second Reprint. 1969.

Paperback. Acceptable.

London, Faber & Faber, 1969. . First edition, first impression; 8vo; publisher's black cloth, titles to spine gilt, with the dust jacket. An exceptional copy in the dust jacket with a single tiny nick at the foot of the spine panel. An exceptionally attractive copy of the author's second major collection. Brandes & Durkan A5a

New York: Oxford University Press, 1969. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition, from British sheets. Toning of the top page edges else about fine in just about fine dustwrapper with a couple of very faint spots of foxing on the front panel. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in. A fresh and bright copy.

London: Faber and Faber, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. 56 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Foxing to top edge, else Fine in Near Fine dust jacket, toned, with small closed tear in top of front panel, small stain at head, unclipped. The Irish poet's second book.

London : Faber and Faber, 1972. First Edition in this form. Softcover. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Series: Faber paper covered editions. Physical description: 55p. ; 20cm. Subjects: Irish poetry -- 20th century.

London: Faber & Faber, 1969. Octavo. First edition of Heaney's second regularly published book. In his introduction to this work, which appears on the Poetry Book Society Bulletin laid into this copy, the future Nobel laureate notes that this sequence moves from the notion of memory - which characterized the overall theme of Death of a Naturalist - to… Read more about this item

Faber, 1969. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very fine, very clean pages, in a very near fine dustwrapper, beautifully bright and fresh. Extremely attractive copy of the poet's second collection, with the Poetry Society Bulletin no 61, with Heaney's introduction to the book, loosely inserted.

London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1969. Pp. 56; demy 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt; dust wrapper, back panel slightly soiled; Faber and Faber Ltd, London, 1969. First edition. Brandes & Durkan A5a. *Heaney's second major collection of poetry, following Death of a Naturalist (1966).

New York: Oxford University Press, 1969. First U.S. edition, first printing. Hardcover. 56 pages. The second collection of poems from the winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature. A clean near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with a few tiny edge tears. A very nice copy of Brandes & Durkan A5.

Paperback / softback. New. With the sensuousness and physicality of language that would become the hallmark of his early writing, these poems graphically depict the author's rural upbringing, from the local forge to the banks of Lough Neagh, concluding in the preserving waters of the bogland and a look ahead to his next book, Wintering Out (1972).

London: Faber & Faber, 1972. reprint. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 56 pages. The poet's second collection of poems, first appeared in 1969. Clean copy. Record # 378688

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1969. Hardcover in acceptable condition. First edition reprint. Price-clipped jacket is marked, tanned and edge worn, with a few nicks. Boards lift slightly. Hardcover spine head is bumped. Spine foot, page block and a few pages are lightly marked. Minor abrasions on pages 26 and 27 have partially obscured text, but missing text has been… Read more about this item

London: Faber, 1972. 8vo, pp. 56. Original stiff paper wrappers. Small ownership signature to ffep., minimal bumping to corners, but a near fine copy. First paperback edition of Heaney's second commercially published collection, first published in 1969. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE.

London: Faber & Faber, 1981. Card covers in tidy condition, browned, 56pp. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.