HUMAN CHAIN

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original burgundy paper covered boards with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the boards bright and fresh. The contents are clean and fresh throughout and free from previous owner's marks. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper that is ever so lightly faded to the spine and upper edge of the rear panel. Not price-clipped (£12.99 to the front flap).

Signed by Heaney in black ink underneath his printed name on the title page. Heaney's twelfth and final collection. "[A] book of shades and memories, of things whispered, of journeys into the underworld, of elegies and translations, of echoes and silences. Heaney allows th[e] struggle between the lacrimae rerum and the consolations of poetry to have a force which is satisfying because its result is so tentative and uncertain. Memory here can be filled with tones of regret and even undertones of anguish, but it also can appear with a sense of hard-won wonder. [H]is best single volume for many years." (Colm Tóibín, The Guardian, 21 August 2010).