HEANEY, Seamus.

Inquire · Offered by Peter Harrington

Sweeney Astray. Signed limited edition, number 220 of 350 copies signed by the author. The illustrator, Barrie Cooke, was a close friend of, and prolific collaborator with, writers such as Heaney, Ted Hughes, and John Montague.Though unmarked as such, this copy belonged to Paul Sullivan, a close friend and patron of Heaney. The pair met through mutual associations with the Irish writer and editor Peter Fallon.The work was first published in a trade edition the year prior.

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