WHYTE'S THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR Saturday 6 May 2017 at 10am

THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR · 6 MAY 2017 AT 10AM

Books

625

Heaney, Seamus. Sweeney Astray and The Haw

Lantern and The Government of the Tongue, first

editions.

1983, Derry, Field Day, first edition, 8vo, grey cloth,

illustrated front cover, dust jacket; together with

Sweeney Astray, 1984, London, first Faber and Faber

edition, boxed in custom-made slip-case with title

etc, in gilt on spine; also The Haw Lantern, 1987,

New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, first US edition, 8vo,

red cloth gilt, dust jacket; The Government of the

Tongue: Selected Prose 1978-1987, 1989, New York,

Farrar Straus Giroux, first US edition, 8vo, papered

boards, cloth spine gilt, dust jacket; (4)

Estimate €70-€100 (approx £59-£85)

626

Heaney, Seamus. The Government of the Tongue.

Selected Prose 1978-1987, first US edition and

publisher’s proof.

New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, first US edition. 8vo,

boxed together in custom-made slip-case with title

etc, in gilt on spine.

Estimate €100-€150 (approx £85-£127)

627

Heaney, Seamus. First editions, published by

Faber and Faber.

New Selected Poems, 1966-1987. 1990, first UK

edition; Sweeney’s Flight, 1992, in custom-made

slip-case; The Redress of Poetry, 1995, in custom-

made slip-case; The Spirit Level, 1996; North,

1996, first edition in Faber; Opened Ground, 1998;

Beowulf: A New Translation, 1999; Electric Light,

2001, first paperback edition; also The Haw Lantern,

1987; and The Cure at Troy: A version of Sophocles’

Philoctete, 1990, first paperback editions. (10)

Estimate €200-€300 (approx £170-£255)