Selected Poems 1965-1975. London: Faber, 1980. Pp, 137. First Edition. A fine copy in dust jacket (price-clipped) featuring photograph of the author by Mike Bunn.

One of only 500 hardbound copies printed.

Collection of poems taken from four previous volumes, Death of a Naturalist (1966), Door Into the Dark (1969), Wintering Out (1973) and North (1975). It provides an ideal introduction of the first ten years of Heaney’s creative activity.

Ex library of the British poet, publisher & academic Jon Stallworthy (1935-2014) with his neat ownership inscription to front free endpaper.