HEANEY, Seamus.

£1,500 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Crediting Poetry. The Nobel Lecture. First UK edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the poet on the half-title to his Frank Pike, an editor at Faber: "To Frank - who ever credited it. Seamus, 12.ii.'96". For over four decades, Pike edited the drama, working with Samuel Beckett, John Osborne, Tom Stoppard, among others.This is one of 500 copies of Heaney's Nobel lecture printed for private circulation. It was preceded by the Gallery Books paperback published in Ireland the previous year.

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