First softbound issue, appearing three years after its hardbound counterpart. SIGNED BY THE... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
HEANEY, Seamus
Death Of A Naturalist
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.