WINTERING OUT

First edition, first printing. Original white card wraps with integral light blue and white paper dustwrapper lettered in black to spine and front panel. A very near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout. Previous owner's circular blind stamp to the lower edge of the half title. There are a few faint stains to the upper page block edge. The dustwrapper, a touch of toned to the spine with a handful of tiny marks to the rear panel, is otherwise clean and bright. Not price-clipped (£1.00 net to the front flap). A bright sharp copy.

The author's third collection for Faber, issued as a paperback original. "Seamus Heaney has gone beyond the themes of his earlier poetry and has made the giant step towards the most ambitious, most intractable themes of maturity. The power of this book comes from a sense that he is reaching out towards a type of desolation and of isolation without which no imagination can be seen to have grown up." (Eavan Boland in the 'Irish Times').