Death of a Naturalist. New York: Oxford University Press,1966. First American Edition. Pp, 57. Green cloth boards and original dust jacket in olive, salmon and white, lettered in black. Other than a small dark mark to title page, this is a fine bright copy.

Signed & Dated by Seanus Heaney on the title page. 

Heaney’s first major work in hardback & the author’s first commercially published work. A year earlier he published a collection in wrappers entitled ‘Eleven Poems’ while still a student in Queen’s University, Belfast.

It earned the Heaney the E.C. Gregory, the Cholmondeley and the Somerset Maugham awards as well as the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. It has now come to be recognised as one of the most significant collections of poetry in modern times.

[Brandes A2].