London: Faber, 1969

8vo, pp. 57. Original printed card wrappers. Small ownership signature to ffep., two additional Heaney poems (Frogman and Shore Woman) clipped from newspapers and pasted to rear endpapers.

First softbound issue, appearing three years after its hardbound counterpart. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.

Heaney's first book -- though preceded by a pamphlet, Eleven Poems[Festival Publications, 1965], in which some of these poems first appeared.

Keywords: Seamus HEANEY"