Field Work. Uncorrected Page Proof. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979. Printed blue wrappers. Light fading to wrappers, otherwise in nice bright condition.

Signed by Seamus Heaney on the half-title.

Uncorrected proof of the American edition.

Field Work is the fifth collection of poetry by Seamus Heaney. In a review for The New York Times, it was described as “a superb book, the most eloquent and far-reaching book he has written, a perennial poetry offered at a time when many of us have despaired of seeing such a thing.”