Description
For sale: a rare and exceptional first edition, early printing hardcover copy of Human Chain by Seamus Heaney. First American Edition stated, 2010 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Third Printing with no subsequent printing.
The book is in Near Fine condition with with clean, bright boards, light foxing on the top page block and a few smudges on the bottom, no spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, moderate edge wear and lightly rubbed corners. The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition with the ghost of an erased price on the half title page. No other marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership inside. The endpapers and the interior pages are clean and bright, making it an excellent addition to any collection.
The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with mild surface and edge wear, making it a stunning example of this highly sought-after first edition that looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.
Seamus Heaney’s new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present–the stepping stones of the day, the weight and heft of what is passed from hand to hand, lifted and lowered. Human Chain also broaches larger questions of transmission, of lifelines to the inherited past.
Ships promptly in corrugated mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.
