Description
For sale: a signed first hardcover edition, first printing of The Spirit Level by Seamus Heaney in a new archival wrap. First American Edition stated, 1996 Farrar, Straus and Giroux. First Printing with no subsequent printing.
The book is in Near Fine condition with with clean, bright boards,strong title ink on a straight spine, clean page blocks, mild spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear and lightly rubbed corners. The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition with the author’s signature and year on the bottom of the half title page. No other marks, inscriptions or signs of ownership. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and lightly toned, making it an excellent addition to any collection.
The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with mild surface and edge wear and the price on the front flap. Looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.
In this collection, as ever with Heaney, personal memory and humble domestic objects — a whitewash brush, a sofa, a swing — are endowed with talismanic significance, and throughout the collection he addresses his growing concerns, which inevitably include the political situation in his native Northern Ireland, in a poetry that never ceases to be fluid, alert, and completely truthful.
Small volume ships promptly in a secure mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.
