North. London: Faber, 1975. First Edition. Original pale blue cloth, title in gilt to spine, in pale blue pictorial dust jacket. Portrait of Heaney by Edward McGuire to rear of dust jacket. Jacket lightly faded, endpapers toned, contents pages in very good condition.

Signed on the day after publication: ‘Seamus Heaney, 10th June, 1975’

A collection of poems in which the Irish experience is refracted through memories of the Scandinavian and English invasions which have marked Irish history so indelibly.

The Heaney’s fourth collection of poetry, and many critics say his best. The book was published on the 9th June, 1975.

The collection was to win the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize and the W. H. Smith Memorial Prize.