Sweeney Astray: A Version from the Irish [Signed]
by [LITERATURE] HEANEY, Seamus
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1984. First American Edition. First Printing, trade issue, one of 5,500 copies. Octavo (24.25cm); pale green paper and brown cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in metallic green on spine; dustjacket; [x],[2],3-85,[1]pp. Signed by Heaney on the front endpaper, dated April 1985. Gentle sunning to upper board edges, some faint, scattered foxing to upper edge of textblock; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $13.95), with gentle sunning to spine, upper front panel, and front flap fold; Near Fine. "Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibhne - the first complete translation since 1913. Its hero, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adventures after he is cursed by a saint and turned into a bird at the Battle of Moira" (from front flap). BRANDES & DURKAN A34d. [59993].
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 59993
- Title
- Sweeney Astray: A Version from the Irish [Signed]
- Author
- [LITERATURE] HEANEY, Seamus
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1984
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Poetry; Ireland;
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Lorne Bair Rare Books
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