OPENED GROUND: Poems 1966-1996

First edition, first printing. Limited edition. Signed by the author. Publisher's original quarter black cloth over paper covered boards with titles in brown on a white paper label to the spine, in the card and cloth slipcase. A near fine copy, the binding square and tight, bright and fresh with just a little rubbing to the extremities, consistent with being removed and replaced into the slipcase. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owners' marks. Housed in the lightly rubbed, structurally sound slipcase.

Issued in a limited edition of 300 copies, this example is numbered 82 in black, and signed by Seamus Heaney in blue ink on the colophon. in black ink on the title page. 'Opened Ground' still remains the closest thing to a collected Heaney. The volume also includes the acceptance speech, 'Crediting Poetry', given by Heaney upon receiving the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.