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HEANEY | The Tree Clock, 1990, number 9 of 20 copies with an autograph poem

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December 8, 04:39 PM GMT

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2,600 - 3,000 GBP

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HEANEY, SEAMUS

The Tree Clock. Belfast: The Linen Hall Library, 1990


8vo, FIRST EDITION, number 9 of 870 copies of which this is one of nine copies numbered and signed by the author and CONTAINING AN AUTOGRAPH POEM, presentation copy inscribed by the author ("to Jorunn | with all good wishes | S.H. | 20.IX. '90" on title-page), printed on hand-made paper, uncut, bound by Sydney Aiken in marbled covers with linen spine and fore-edge, upper cover lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, marbled slipcase


FINE.


The autograph poem in this volume is 'The Point' (commencing "Those were the days-- | booting a leather football..."), which appears as the first poem in the collection.