Door into the Dark; poems

Heaney (Seamus).     1969 First Edition     Exceptionally nice copy in somewhat worn and chipped dust-wrapper. With the author’s signed autograph presentation inscription on the front free end-paper, dated 27 June 1969: “To ... ‘our poesy is as a gum which oozes whence ’tis nourished’ ”  The quotation is from Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens. 

Price: £1200