Death of a Naturalist, warmly inscribed

by the author by Seamus Heaney

$6,000 · Offered by Churchill Book Collector

First edition · Signed

London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1966. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is a jacketed and inscribed presentation copy of first edition, first printing of the author’s first commercially published book. The author’s notably warm gift inscription, inked in seven lines on the front free endpaper recto, reads: “for Alan - | man of books, friend | of the bookmen, good | genius of Cheltenham, |

• Binding: Hardcover

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