Death of a Naturalist. London: Faber, 1966. Third Impression. Pp, 57. Green cloth boards and publisher’s dust jacket in olive, salmon and white, lettered in black. Jacket faded along spine & lightly rubbed, neat ownership inscription to front free endpaper, otherwise a nice bright copy.

The author’s first commercially published work which earned the Heaney the E.C. Gregory, the Cholmondeley and the Somerset Maugham awards as well as the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.

Death of a Naturalist has now come to be recognised as one of the most significant collections of poetry in modern times.