Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney's first collection of prose, Preoccupations , begins with a vivid account of his early years on his father's farm in Northern Ireland and his coming of age as a student and teacher in Belfast. Subsequent essays include critical work on Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Robert Lowell, William Butler Yeats, John Montague, Patrick Kavanagh, Ted Hughes, Geoffrey Hill, and Philip Larkin.
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Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney's first collection of prose, Preoccupations , begins with a vivid account of his early years on his father's farm in Northern Ireland and his coming of age as a student and teacher in Belfast. Subsequent essays include critical work on Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Robert Lowell, William Butler Yeats, John Montague, Patrick Kavanagh, Ted Hughes, Geoffrey Hill, and Philip Larkin.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First American edition. Foxing on the top edge of the textblock, else fine in a fine dustwrapper with the spine lightly toned. Prose selections from the Nobel laureate.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First American edition. White-out gift inscription from "Elise" to Alice Goodman on the title page with penned notations on a few pages, light foxing on page edges, spine ends lightly bumped with spine modestly cocked, very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with small stains and spine tanned, short tears on edges. Prose selections from the Nobel laureate. Inscribed by Alice Goodman on the front fly: "From E.T.T. December, 1980, Alice Goodman." Alice Goodman, poet, Anglican priest, and wife of poet Geoffrey Hill. A nice association copy.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First American Edition signed and dated by author on front flyleaf. Previous owner's initials on same page. Faint yellow streaks on either side of the front and rear hinges, probably due to the aging of the binding glue. Some foxing to the top edge of the text block. Short, closed tear at top left edge on front of dust jacket. Small wrinkle at spine head. Teeny chip out of bottom right edge on front of jacket. Small tear at lower corner of jacket on the back. Tiny brown spot in upper left corner of jacket on back. Jacket spine a little yellowed. Jacket now in paper backed mylar.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Inscribed and Dated By Author First US edition, first prnt. Inscribed by Heaney on the front free endpage. "for Morgan Seamus Heaney April 1982." Faint beginning foxing on the topedge; dustjacket with toning on spine and flaps' top edges, two small closed tears, small chip at spine topedge and short stary ink line on front panel. Very Good condition in a Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover. Heaney's first prose collection.