Description
For sale: a rare and exceptional first edition, first printing hardcover copy of Field Work by Seamus Heaney in a new archival wrap. First American Edition described, 1979 Farrar, Straus and Giroux. First Printing stated with no subsequent printing.
The book is in Near Fine condition with with clean, bright boards, strong title gilt on a square spine, mild foxing on the 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 an erased price on the first free end paper. 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 Very Good condition with mild surface wear, heavy edge wear, a small gap on the top spine end and the price on the front flap. Looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.
Field Work (1979) is the record of four years during which Seamus Heaney left the violence of Belfast to settle in a country cottage with his family in Glanmore, County Wicklow. Heeding “an early warning system to get back inside my own head,” Heaney wrote poems with a new strength and maturity, moving from the political concerns of his landmark volume North to a more personal, contemplative approach to the world and to his own writing.
Small volume ships promptly in a secure mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.
