First edition, first printing. Publisher's original dark blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with ever so slightly spine faded dustwrapper that remains without loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£14.99 to the front flap).
Dedicated to the memory of his friend, Ted Hughes, Heaney's line-by-line translation from the original Anglo-Saxon of this great Northern epic and foundational work of English and European literature was winner of the 1999 Whitbread Poetry Prize. (Brandes & Durkan A72a).
Stock code: 28146
£60