Door into the Dark. London: Faber & Faber, 1969. First Edition. Pp, 56. Black cloth boards, title lettered in gilt to spine, in publisher’s dust jacket printed in red, green & white. Light spotting to endpapers & fore-edges; neat ownership stamp to half-title; otherwise a nice bright copy.

Inscribed in the year of publication by Seamus Heaney on the title page.

Heaney’s second collection, preceded by his widely acclaimed ‘Death of a Naturalist’ published in 1966.

The 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).