Description
For sale: a rare and exceptional first edition, first printing hardcover copy of Seeing Things by Seamus Heaney in a new archival wrap. First American Edition stated, 1991 Farrar, Straus and Giroux. First Printing with no subsequent printing.
The book is in Near Fine condition with with clean, bright boards, moderate 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 bright, 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.
Seeing Things (1991), as Edward Hirsch wrote in The New York Times Book Review, “is a book of thresholds and crossings, of losses balanced by marvels, of casting and gathering and the hushed, contrary air between water and sky, earth and heaven.” Along with translations from the Aeneid and the Inferno, this book offers several poems about Heaney’s late father.
Small volume ships promptly in a secure mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.
